Intertrade Ireland Spammers Or Just Thick?
July 28, 2009 at 12:19 pm
In 2006 I attended an Intertrade Ireland conference. It wasn’t that suited to my business. (=euphemism for “I didn’t get a single piece of business let alone request for proposal out of it”) And I normally score quite high at those kind of gigs.
Since then, every year Intertrade Ireland sends me emails. I have tried so many times to have my name removed from their list. I have to do this by emailing them directly as they do not have an unsubscribe link on their emails.
I’m not interested. They are just costing themselves money emailing me. And my inactivity is affecting their stats.
Now again I’ve just received another email in from them as it’s that time of year again. I think I will share with everyone the proof from last year that I truly did unsubscribe.
Started off by asking them to remove me:
Intertrade Ireland Spam Email
Received a rather sarky reply from Intertrade Ireland:
Intertrade Ireland Spam Email
To which I replied:
Now they are at it again:
This kind of thing really pisses me off.
How many times do I have to clearly ask to be removed from the Intertrade Ireland list?
Are they thick? Do they not care that they are spamming me?
Or do they think ‘sure we’ll email everyone on the database and see what response we get’?
Well here’s my response: TAKE MY NAME & EMAIL OFF YOUR DATABASE I’M NOT INTERESTED.
(And I think I’ve done awfully well to keep expletives out of this post now that we’ve got a blasphemy law and all)
Tags: Intertrade Ireland, Seedcorn Spam
Comments (5 responses)
You shouldn’t have to ask to remove, they should include an opt out link.
Obviously their spam cannon doesn’t have that ability.
In this case I don’t think they’re “spammers”, but have inadequate crm tools. Unfortunately this is a bit too common with organisations more interested in email list quantity over quality.
I blogged on some issues before on email unsubscription – http://www.barryhand.ie/blog/email-marketing/why-making-it-easy-to-unsubscribe-from-your-email-is-a-good-thing#content
Mary Rose
Once again apologies and thank you for your understanding on the telephone.
As explained this email only went to a select list of bloggers and your details have been removed from all our mailing lists.
As we are trying out new and innovative ways to promote our Competition and reach as many entrepreneurs as possible we thought we would contact bloggers directly. I can assure you we do care about all our stakeholders. In fact we are in the process of purchasing new Email Marketing solution which will give recipients the option to opt out.
A good fast response from Intertrade Ireland and a very personable call from Caroline to deal with this – so am impressed.
But it ties in with Barry’s comment about poor CRM. Also, if I opt out as a person, it’s as a blogger too. I’m hardly going to pimp something that has irritated me.
Did the email go out to a select list of bloggers blindly? If it’s not opt in – it’s spam
@barry I agree, but then that implies that bloggers much opt in to pretty much every company that wants to contact them.
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