Following is a short email exchange I had last week with a snowflake:
SUBSCRIBER: You have made it so I cant cancel your annoying emails. Stop now.
elBENBO: I just clicked the opt out link for you. It was really hard to do. It shows you as opted out. If you keep getting them take it up with Aweber.com it’s their software. Now go haunt someone else.
SUBSCRIBER: Haunt someone else? Thanks for that abusive email. I ll leave a screen shot all over the internet for you. Show everyone who receives your salesy non informative emails how polite you are. Secondly. You use aweber so it wouldn’t be myself to sort this out. It would be yourself.
elBENBO: No, it’s Aweber software, snowflake, I have zero control over whether you stay or go. I am thinking by your victim mentality (“abusive” – go to your safe place, hurry!) you just didn’t know how to click the opt out link. Yes, please do tell all your friends online to avoid me, you’ll do us both a favor. Now go away. Shoo.
In his defense, he did go away cordially after that.
So, he probably won’t do me the favor of sharing the screenshot and scaring away people like him who are so delicate telling them to go haunt someone else is “abusive”. I don’t usually recommend wasting time on such things. But, sometimes, drawing the nonsense out of complainers is worth the time if you can turn it into email fodder.
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About this whole spam thing.
Since spam is unsolicited bulk email, technically, these complainers are more “spammy” than the marketers they are whining to.
At least, they are in my case.
How so?
Because to join my list one has to click a box saying they acknowledge they’ll be getting “daily promotional emails” from me (it won’t let them subscribe otherwise). Then the first email (all above the fold) says I mail a lot (2-3 times per day or more) and how to leave, etc if they want to at any time.
100% transparent.
And, they are going in as my willing victims, not innocent victims.
On the other hand:
I never ask for their irrelevant feedback, comments, and complaints.
Although I do often find such things amusing…
(And, as you can see, great for email fodder.)
Yes, my little droogie, when you use my methods you can profit from complainers.
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Ben Settle
