This just strikes me as funny. I recently did a shop for Ath Power where I opened a bank account. Today I got this email:
Bank ******* New Account Satisfaction Survey
Dear My Name:
Bank ****** has commissioned Maritz Research, a marketing research firm, to help collect valuable customer feedback about your experience with opening a new checking account with the bank.This information will be used to help ensure the best possible experiences for you and other customers.
Please be assured that all your responses will be reported in aggregate, and that your individual responses will be kept confidential.
To access the survey, simply
[
]**********
click this link , or manually copy and paste the address into your web browser.
The entire survey should take only 10 minutes of your time.
Thank you for your time and opinions.
Maritz Research
I should reply: Dear Maritz, I am one of your mystery shoppers and opened that account as part of a mystery shop for another company. I didn't give them my feedback for free and I don't give my opinions for free to you either. For a $10 fee I will be glad to evaluate that transaction for you. Let me know. Sincerely, shopper 3xxxx1
Yes, I'm kidding.... but it's still tempting....
Actually that was at least the second such email I received since I did this shop; I've just been ignoring them, thinking it was from the bank itself and "I don't give my opinions for free." Previously I had received two or three phone calls I had not answered that I discovered by Googling had come from Maritz, mostly like about the same transaction.
They're pushier than Market Force's foreign schedulers are.
Time to build a bigger bridge.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/22/2014 12:20AM by dspeakes.