Seeking Alpha abuse ?

[Q.E.D.]

Someone I got on e-mail list for SeekingAlpha.com.

Despite "UNSUBSCRIBING" for each of their individual e-mailings, I have already 1/2 dozen this morning.

Anybody else bombarded with Seeking Alpha nonsense?

 

[Baron]

I've had to deal with "unsubscribe hell" from them and many others in the past. It's so frustrating.

The worst ones to me are the sites that you'll buy a random thing from, like an air filter for your home AC unit and then you just get a nonstop stream of daily emails about air filters, as if you exist on this planet for the sole purpose of purchasing air filters every day. They'll even send you emails about the latest 20% off sale conveniently AFTER you just bought one at the regular price. And then when you try to unsubscribe, it either doesn't work or their unsubscribe link goes to a broken page. I spend way too much time each month just trying to bring my inbox back to some level of normalcy.

 

[destriero]

The worst is when you drop a paywall subscription. They barrage you with headlines (WaPo) in your inbox. Unsub, but I still get 5-6/day. Send it to spam? They send from a slightly different addy. Air filters sounds worse, yeah.

archive.ph is really killing the news paywall.

 

[Sekiyo]

I've had to deal with "unsubscribe hell" from them and many others in the past. It's so frustrating.

The worst ones to me are the sites that you'll buy a random thing from, like an air filter for your home AC unit and then you just get a nonstop stream of daily emails about air filters, as if you exist on this planet for the sole purpose of purchasing air filters every day. They'll even send you emails about the latest 20% off sale conveniently AFTER you just bought one at the regular price. And then when you try to unsubscribe, it either doesn't work or their unsubscribe link goes to a broken page. I spend way too much time each month just trying to bring my inbox back to some level of normalcy.

There are disposable emails on the web,
I often use them for random websites.
Stuff I don’t want to hear from.

Even if you buy something, you get the invoice on the disposable email then you can forward it to your real address or whatever.

It’s very useful to keep a clean mailbox.

 

[Specterx]

Refusing to honor unsub requests is actually illegal under CAN-SPAM. Spammers won't care but real US-based companies sure do.

Not clear to me if an individual can sue in civil court, but it's worth investigating if you have the time. Penalties are $50k per violation.

 

[Q.E.D.]

My experience generally is e-mails start, the moment they grab your e-mail address, but sites claim "UNSUB" takes 2 weeks to implement. That includes most financial institutions, & major sites, that have the latest technology.

 

[PennySnatch]

My tactic for the eternal email stack is to have a black hole email address at Yahoo where anytime I sign up for something or someone insists on getting my email I give them the slip and send them down the hole. Seeking Alpha is one of the many in there.

BTW my alias is Jerimiah Hootner. Born July 4th 1899.

 

[ETJ]

They are based in Jerusalem, might be a time lag, but who knows?

 

[schizo]

Someone I got on e-mail list for SeekingAlpha.com.

Despite "UNSUBSCRIBING" for each of their individual e-mailings, I have already 1/2 dozen this morning.

Anybody else bombarded with Seeking Alpha nonsense?

SPAM button was created for a reason. Use it.

 

[Edmond]

When you make purchases online create a new Email just for purchases.

then you will not have spam in your main/buisness email..so simple
And I thought you guys were smart