Advertising emails, how many do you deal with, etc.

[Opti]

Reading my email today I was struck by the fact that almost any vendors
you give your email address to feels the need to send you emails daily.

Some I think are worth it, although I often wish they'd offer different frequencies.
So, who do get advertising emails from?
How often do you actually open them up?
And anything else you'd like to share.



I like my Shoebuy.com daily emails as I track the deals by the subject line.
I wish I didn't get daily emails from Victoria's Secret as I only care about
the ones around the two semi-annual sales.

[Blonde Granny]

I just delete them, and eventually I get really tired of them and unsubscribe. I also won't give my email address to just any company that asks for it.

[justme]

Everyone. I wish they didn't send them out all.the.time. Companies have probably missed out on cash from me because I let them stay in Gmail's Promotions feature and rarely wander over there to check it out because I get so many new ones a day.

[Deleted]

One of my goals for summer is to unsubscribe to 1-2 a day till they are hopefully all gone...

[Opti]

BG, what do you do about the one's who won't unsubscribe you?

I subscribed years ago to one or two money type newsletters. Over the years
its morphed into 10 different emailers associated with them. Often Money
Morning or the other one will threaten to unsubscribe me if I don't do something,
but they never do.

Some places when you try to unsubscribe just email more crap instead.

[Deleted]

I have a spamcatcher address in addition to my regular e-mail address (both gmail) and any merchant that requires an e-mail address gets that one. Very handy. Some merchants are worse than others. A few places (a couple selling movies on DVD, Gap.com and some others I've used only to order wedding registry gifts) have hounded me ceaselessly for years even though I ordered from them only once. Every time I donate on-line to a charity (when I sign up for an athletic event or sponsor someone else), they continue to solicit more donations. The MS Society is particularly bad about that. LinkedIn- what pests! I swear every week they offer to upgrade me to Premium. Now they're informing me of birthdays. What is this, FaceBook? And it's kind of funny/sad when someone changes their employment and the new title is something like "Project Management Professional seeking next challenge" and LinkedIn provides a link so I can "say congrats". Umm, yeah.

I do occasionally ask to be removed and sometimes that works. At least I can keep the junk off my regular e-mail address.

[sesfw]

I don't give my email to businesses and such.

'No' is such a great word.

I get a few advertising types and I try to unsubscribe as quickly as possible.  But there a few that the 'unsubscribe' doesn't work.  So I put them on my blocked list.  Keeps things down to a manageable level.

[marvholly]

It seems as though any site I WANT to get info from sells my email to the intimate world. Generally I just delete, or unsubscribe.

IF I unsubscribe a couple times & STILL get emails I send them to spam & within a few days they go there automatically. I do have 1 site that is about to be sent to spam.

[sheilaincali]

It's beyond annoying.

For on line shopping and when people ask for my email so I can get coupons I use one separate email address. 95% of what comes to that address is junk mail. I do get coupons from time to time from Kohls, Hobby Lobby, Michaels, etc. Otherwise it's a "select all" and "delete" situation.

For work at one point they forwarded the emails of people that I replaced to me new email address. Since I've replace 3 1/2 people (someone else took the other 1/2 one person's job) I get a ton of junk emails a day. I hate it. I've been doing the whole "unsubscribe" thing. But it doesn't always take the first time. 

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Jun 9, 2014 22:39:45 GMT -5 sesfw said:

I don't give my email to businesses and such.

I agree with you when it's in person, but when on-line it's frequently required.

Sheila, I'm always surprised when people use their work e-mails for non-business things such as on-line purchases. I was once in a meeting where someone was sharing her screen. When she had to look up an e-mail, her In Box contained confirmations of orders from Williams-Sonoma and Eddie Bauer. It didn't look very professional!  I've also been though the process of changing personal e-mail addresses and I allow myself 6 months because there are so many places it needs to be changed.  (Try changing your password on an account when they want to send a verifying e-mail to an address you can no longer access.)  That's another darn good reason not to use a work e-mail address for personal business.  I guess your former co-workers didn't think about that.

 

[sheilaincali]

Athena- it's not just the shopping ones it's every stupid newsletter they signed up for. At one point my dad's former partner's idiot son was the VP (my title now) and he decided we needed to make our own bio-fuel and started researching the process.  So for years now I've been getting newsletters and emails from every crackpot under the sun about how to make your own fuel.

(he switched a couple of pieces of equipment over and caused a huge mess, seized up the motors and cost us about $15,000 to fix what he did)

That's why I have 5 email address- 2 for work (one for each company I work for), one for on-line shopping, one for friends to use and one that's more professional for my person life that's my full name that I use for DS' school stuff, charities I work with, my extended family, etc. It's annoying but it keeps them all manageable and I only have to check some of them once a week.  My work ones stay open all day long on my desktop.