I don’t know if these people
Endeavor Agency
9701 Wilshire Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
310-248-2020
are actual vendors doing email marketing for you, or if they’re phishers trying to install trojans on my machine (and I don’t care enough to find out which), but I have received 38 separate emails purporting to be advertising your home improvement services just since yesterday (and that doesn’t even begin to count the hundreds of emails I’ve received from you in the past several weeks).
Now, I know, I used to have a charge account with you, and I used to buy a lot of stuff at Sears back in the day.
But you’re sending this crap to my work address…which I have never given you.
Thus it’s clear that, if you are in fact engaging in email marketing:
1) You are violating the CAN-SPAM act by sending me unsolicited offers from obviously bogus return addresses
2) Your marketing firm is obviously using readily-available CDs of “millions of addresses” marketed by spammers to other spammers
3) You’ve lost any possible chance that I would call you for home improvement services. Which were pretty much nil anyway since I do my own work, but that’s another story.
So, if you don’t mind, kindly call off your fucking dogs.
Cheers,
Nathan
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I’d bet that Sears has nothing whatsoever to do with any of this. The use of their name in either the subject or the sender name is solely to get your attention.
Unless the message comes from a domain name you can positively tie to a business, chances are the solicitation is a real and valid as a R0lexx watch bought down in the Tri-Border region of South America. For twenty bucks. American.
What I find surpasses understanding is that people A) think this is a viable way to make money and B) other people will actually do business with these skunks.
I suspect that the real suckers are the poor fools SENDING the emails. They’ve paid $59.99 to some shark for a CD-R packed to the FAT table with “MILLIONS of verified email addresses!”
M
Mark, you’re probably correct, but ya never know these days. Some of these big corporations’ marketing departments are incredibly, woefully dumb when it comes to email. I could tell stories based on actual experience, but I’d end up fired, and I can’t afford that in an Øbama economy.