Why I would forego 4goprint.com

So today I got an email, an advertisement. Shocking, right? So I go ahead and open it to be sure I didn’t just mistake it as spam, and I notice something rather annoying… The vast majority of the email was, to paraphrase “no really, this isn’t spam! please, please, please don’t mark it as spam! seriously, its not spam! now buy something please?” It being completely unsolicited and from a company I have no ties with and have never heard of before, it clearly fell within my definition of spam. The message was both annoying and pathetic, and was what pushed me over the line to actually report it as spam instead of just delete it as I normally would. Because it stood out to me so much, I replied to the company (sales@4goprint.com) and told them as much, thinking perhaps they would rethink how they do their marketing (or at least make it less hypocritical / annoying). I quickly received this reply:

“If you where on our list then you where not spam we where simply letting people know on our mailing list that we had to do this because of our email company made us but since you are a jack ass we are glad not to have you I wish I could have been nicer with a reply but your email left me no choice

Sent from my iPhone”

Nice eh? Now that’s customer service!

~ by Clay on December 15, 2011.