2009.115: It isn't Spam! You can unsubscribe!
I wrote someone to meet about a future project for a customer. The
dollar value of a project we are lookign at would be around $140K.
The email I got back wasn't very enticing. It had a heavy PDF attached
with nothing I didn't already know about the company. What's important
is what comes next:
I wrote asking to meet, as we're in the same city. No answer. My
partner met this person subsequently and the guy confirmed getting my
message.
Zoom forward several weeks. Today, I received a mass mailing to my
address with news from this company. I replied asking him remove my
address from the mailing list and that subsequent mailings would be
reported as spam. Here's what he answered:
"I was thinking you would be interested by this newsletter. If you
don't wish to receive this newsletter anymore, you can unsubscribe
directly."
Bzzzzzzz BAD answer. I replied that one doesn't opt out of UBE which
is Unsolicited Bulk Email (aka spam) and when I ask to be removed, you
don't make me jump through hoops to be removed from a list I never
asked to be put on.
He then answered beginning with "I am the General Director of Vin......a"
I do not wish further discourse with this person, but here's what my thought is:
As General Director of a company, you just pissed on being a part of a
$140,000 deal with name more prestigious than any in your PDF.
One: Admit you're wrong, it doesn't cost you anything. Almost any
error is savable (except if it involves atomic energy)
Two: Don't bandy about your title to people, it means nothing to me.
You probably made it up anyway.
Three: What part of UNSOLICITED do you not get? Bad enough to send
this crap out, but never ask me to opt out of something I did not opt
into.
I feel like we're back in 1998.
dollar value of a project we are lookign at would be around $140K.
The email I got back wasn't very enticing. It had a heavy PDF attached
with nothing I didn't already know about the company. What's important
is what comes next:
I wrote asking to meet, as we're in the same city. No answer. My
partner met this person subsequently and the guy confirmed getting my
message.
Zoom forward several weeks. Today, I received a mass mailing to my
address with news from this company. I replied asking him remove my
address from the mailing list and that subsequent mailings would be
reported as spam. Here's what he answered:
"I was thinking you would be interested by this newsletter. If you
don't wish to receive this newsletter anymore, you can unsubscribe
directly."
Bzzzzzzz BAD answer. I replied that one doesn't opt out of UBE which
is Unsolicited Bulk Email (aka spam) and when I ask to be removed, you
don't make me jump through hoops to be removed from a list I never
asked to be put on.
He then answered beginning with "I am the General Director of Vin......a"
I do not wish further discourse with this person, but here's what my thought is:
As General Director of a company, you just pissed on being a part of a
$140,000 deal with name more prestigious than any in your PDF.
One: Admit you're wrong, it doesn't cost you anything. Almost any
error is savable (except if it involves atomic energy)
Two: Don't bandy about your title to people, it means nothing to me.
You probably made it up anyway.
Three: What part of UNSOLICITED do you not get? Bad enough to send
this crap out, but never ask me to opt out of something I did not opt
into.
I feel like we're back in 1998.
