Re: Water tight opt-in (yet another FUSSP)

Without going tit-for-tat which seems to sometimes elicit defensive
reactions...

I think some of you live in a more rational world than I do.

For example, I get 2-3 phone calls a day maybe 5 days/week, sometimes
it stops for a few days here and there, from something called "Credit
Card Services" pitching some service to lower rates.

This has been going on for at least 2 years. If you google "credit
card services phone calls" you'll see this is true for millions of
people and if not for any of you in the US I'd be surprised.

I am on the FTC dont-call list but as far as I can tell they use some
credit card acct I do have to skirt that, we have a "prior business
relationship".

They have an unsub button (push 2!), pushed it many times, no luck.

Now by the reasoning presented here that makes no sense: Legitimate
companies don't want to ANNOY you, right?

Wrong.

Near as I can tell it must work or they wouldn't go on for years doing
this.

Similar happens for the several week run-up to election day, I can get
10 or more calls a day, political campaign calls are immune from FTC
Don't Call of course -- the laws were written by political
campaigners!

I think it works.

Annoying the *** out of people seems to work, i.e., it gets them what
they want (paying customers, votes) or they deeply believe it does.

So forgive me if I get a bit skeptical when someone tells me how big
email marketers et al will be careful to not actually ANNOY people and
that's only the purview of criminal or near-criminal types.

It's wishful thinking IMHO.

And if we wait for it to be measurable it'll be too late.

It will be standard industry practice like with telemarketing and any
attempt to curtail it will be trying to shut down a, by then, already
very profitable industry.

Good luck with that as they send lawyers, guns (ok, lobbyists), and
money to protect a business activity that's making them billions.


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