Badgering Email

[Abraham]

Do you take the time to fill out all the survey email you receive or the how was your last visit at our business or did you like this movie and was it on time and on and on...

Now, even my Dentist and car service folks have gotten on this bandwagon. Good grief!

Sure, if you've a complaint or a compliment by all means respond if you care to, but the increase of requesting my time has gone through the roof with this type of email.

I wonder when this phenomenon will start tapering off? There's got to be more folks like me who simply delete the ever increasing email demand for my attention.

Thoughts?

[pancho]

That's why they invented SPAM folders.

[JSThane]

Email, snail mail, phone messages.

I ignore almost all of it.

[chasfm11]

Do you take the time to fill out all the survey email you receive or the how was your last visit at our business or did you like this movie and was it on time and on and on...

Now, even my Dentist and car service folks have gotten on this bandwagon. Good grief!

Sure, if you've a complaint or a compliment by all means respond if you care to, but the increase of requesting my time has gone through the roof with this type of email.

I wonder when this phenomenon will start tapering off? There's got to be more folks like me who simply delete the ever increasing email demand for my attention.

Thoughts?

Mass delete is a wonderful thing. Highlight, delete all, poof!

It will taper off when it quits working. Unfortunately, some of the unwashed masses still allow it to work on them.

I haven't bought anything from a door to door salesman ever. That doesn't mean that they stop coming, even with Town solicitation ordnances.

[OldCannon]

This thread is disappointing. I was thinking he was getting emails like this:

[03Lightningrocks]

It is probably going to get more frequent Abraham. The thinking of businesses is that as a customer, you won't perceive email from them as spam. For 13 years we have mailed a stamped self addressed envelope with a survey form in it to any customer we perform work over a certain value. We are sincerely seeking their opinions so we can improve our services. Our continued success depends on us making customers feel appreciated. Email is the new form of this. The Internet is the new advertising/communication tool for businesses. Not a week goes by that some Internet marketing firm doesn't send us some kind of communication offering such services for a fee. Most business organizations are now telling businesses that they are falling behind their competition if they are not marketing on the Internet. Even the search engines are bought and paid for. Doing a search for a business? The results are rigged beyond anything I can describe in a single post. It isn't about who performs the best service. It is about who pays the most for firms who know how to rig a web site for the best search results. Everything you do on the Internet is logged. Doing a search for stereos? Low and behold... Magically... Stereo banner adds and pop ups will start showing up on your web pages. Email campaigns can be targeted to folks depending on what type web pages they attend. It is crazy to think of the lack of privacy one has on the Internet.

Like I said Abraham.... It is going to get a whole lot more frequent. Email from businesses you have worked with are just the tip of the ice berg. The level of spam mail is getting crazier every day. It is almost impossible to filter all the spam out without accidentally filtering email you want to receive.

[sjfcontrol]

Have you noticed that most credit card receipts from B&M locations (and ALL restraunts) now include some kind of reward if you call the number ( or go online) and fill in a survey?

[03Lightningrocks]

Have you noticed that most credit card receipts from B&M locations (and ALL restraunts) now include some kind of reward if you call the number ( or go online) and fill in a survey?

Even worse!! Jack in the box is offering two free tacos if you send them a text message! I figure they will blow up my cell phone with spam if I dare text them. At two for a buck, I will just go ahead and pay for my tacos.


Oh...almost forgot... Starbucks offered me a buck off if I would go to the web site and take a survey about my local Starbucks. The employees working there get some kind of brownie points if I rate them high.

Oops... One more. I bought a TV from Best Buy and had it delivered. I went to their web site to do a survey on the quality of my experience. Naturally, I logged into my account to take the survey. Now my email is getting blown up buy offers from Best buy that relate to my new TV in any weird way imaginable.

[G26ster]

Most reputable companies that blast you with email will have an "unsubscribe" link on the bottom of the email. I was skeptical at first, but every one that I unsubscribed from has never sent me further email. I'm sure there might be a few that ignore it, but it's been over a year without unwanted spam email.

[suthdj]

I pulled a childish evil prank on my ex-wife I went to a few porn sites and signed her up for email up dates. Yes, I know it was childish but boy was in fun at the time.

[Fangs]

I pulled a childish evil prank on my ex-wife I went to a few porn sites and signed her up for email up dates. Yes, I know it was childish but boy was in fun at the time.

There are websites that will take any e-mail address you enter and sign it up for hundreds of spam lists...