I’ve been going through my huge gmail inbox, which I had let get quite out of control recently. Many different email address and accounts all sending thousands of emails to my single primary gmail account. Well, finally I’ve been filtering out the junk, deleting the pointless stuff, markign a whole bunch of things as unread (that may be useful in future…!?) and also unsubscribing from a load of things I don’t ever recall signing up to.
Of the unsubscribe process, some are great – a single clear link towards the bottom of the email (some evenr have it at the top – even better) that link to a page which instantly tells you that you are now unsubscribed. Thats it, no more emails form the company, you can forget about them. However, some prompt you to login after clicking the unsubscribe link, meaning they’ve either been lazy (not coding a unique to you id into the URL behind the link), sneaky (trying to prevent you from going through with you request to unsubscribe) or maybe a bit of both…
Play.com I’d have thought you could do better! A few however, then choose to send you an email after you have unsubscribed, tellling you goodbye! I unsubscribe as I don’t want any more contact from you, so anymore emails, especially a pointless ‘goodbye’ is bordering on insulting. Next they’ll decide to say sorry you unsubribed, we miss you, fancy re-subscribing…. oh wait some even do this! Simple solution is now just the handy ‘mark as spam’ button – thank you gmail.
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UNSUBRIBE
I DON’T RECALL SIGNING UP. PLEASE UNSUBRIBE ME.
THANK YOU,
J. GRANOWSKI