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I'm Going to Become a Spammer

April 13, 2011 07:42PM
I decided today that I am going to start spamming a certain MS company as much as they spam me. They have a shop for a clothing store called Wet Seal and for months they have been sending me the same email over and over and over and over again - usually multiple times a day - sometimes trying to disguise the shop by giving the subject line a new twist - in the hopes somebody will take it.

I have emailed the scheduler and asked her to please stop sending so many emails about this shop to no avail. I have also told her that the problem with the shop is that it requires a purchase which you can return "for a store credit". If the shop actually paid real money instead of forcing me to buy junky clothes at a teeny bopper store, I might consider the shop, but they refuse to change the requirements. So the shop sits and the scheduler continues to spam shoppers multiple times per day hoping some poor sap will take it.

So I have decided that starting now, each time I get another email about this shop, I am going to hit "reply" and send. I am going to send it right back to the scheduler. Now, her email box will start to get as filled up with spam as mine is.

Whew. Thank you. I just needed to vent. I am really up to here with this company.
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April 13, 2011 08:07PM
I like that idea. I'm so sick of getting multiple e-mails about shops I don't not even located in my area. Customer Service Experts is the worst!
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April 14, 2011 12:31PM
I wonder if we all jumped on the bandwagon and started hitting reply, the MSC's would get the message? I like the idea.
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April 14, 2011 03:07PM
This is an excellent idea; my single regret is that it didn't enter my mind. There's a company for whom I've completed 6 jobs in 8+ yrs., of which 5 were at my son's request. The current scheduler has sent me up to 41 pieces of mail in a day, so when this morning the count reached 11, I became a SPAMMER and sent each back to her.

It's almost 08:00 EDT and the final count for the day was 34 letters, all of which were returned; perhaps she'll "get the message."

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/14/2011 11:50PM by shopperbob.
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April 14, 2011 05:40PM
I just wonder why the can't just condense all the cities to one email.

One MSP I shop for recently get a new scheduler, the old scheduler used to have all the cities in my state with this shop in one email.

The new scheduler sends one email for each city in my state.
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April 15, 2011 04:01AM
When I come home and am gone all day, I don't know where to start. I had it when you get all those emails. One company must send me ten a day, in addition to the reminder emails.

By time I get to the emails that I want to look at, I am exhausted.
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April 15, 2011 09:14AM
What I am going to do with these multiple emails is hit reply and include a note "Duplicate email" as though I am helping them out by letting them know they are sending the same email more than once. Maybe they will get the message.
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April 16, 2011 02:29AM
SassyGirl, what I great idea.
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April 17, 2011 11:51PM
Keep in mind though, just as shoppers talk to shoppers, schedulers talk to schedulers too. They might work with different companies but they do talk with eachother. I have actualy been referred to company A from company B... I won't spamm anyone I just put their address into my Junk box. I only check my junk box about once or twice a week.
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April 18, 2011 12:26PM
Why not just opt-out of emails from that company?
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April 18, 2011 01:16PM
I agree with Justme615 or if they annoy you sooo much that your willing to risk having a bad rep as a Mystery Shopper stop performing shops for the MSC all together.
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April 21, 2011 04:38PM
I would LIKE to get emails from the company, but I don't want 20 emails per day for the same shop! I have opted out of their email notifications, but it seems to me a bad way to do business - to spam your shoppers endlessly and annoy them to the point where they have to opt out of getting emails from you.
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