Kifaru Spam

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I've been getting spammed by their text message ads as well. I tried to delete and block but they kept coming through. Definitely annoying.
 

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Almost every company has abandon cart and abandoned browsing emails being sent automatically when you are on their email list. All you have to do is unsubscribe. There is no need to block anything. You may seem annoyed but it's a vital marketing function to recover sales.

If you are subscribed to texts, all you do is reply STOP. That goes for literally any marketing text message you get. It automatically unsubscribes you from the text list.

Same with seeing ads on socials after visiting a website. None of that is being personally sent to you by the company. That is a common misconception. META (Facebook/Instagram), Google, Youtube, etc. use algorithms to show you things you are interested in. The company pays for this, but it's an extremely important marketing tool.

Companies that don't do these things will not survive long with the amount of competition there is.

Just my two cents.
 
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Almost every company has abandon cart and abandoned browsing emails being sent automatically when you are on their email list. All you have to do is unsubscribe. There is no need to block anything. You may seem annoyed but it's a vital marketing function to recover sales.

If you are subscribed to texts, all you do is reply STOP. That goes for literally any marketing text message you get. It automatically unsubscribes you from the text list.

Same with seeing ads on socials after visiting a website. None of that is being personally sent to you by the company. That is a common misconception. META (Facebook/Instagram), Google, Youtube, etc. use algorithms to show you things you are interested in. The company pays for this, but it's an extremely important marketing tool.

Companies that don't do these things will not survive long with the amount of competition there is.

Just my two cents.
I have unsubscribed from the same companies email multiple times and still get crap from them. They have lost my business forever. Text seems to be more effective in stopping the spam.

To me, it comes across as desperate. I will not chase the customers in my business, and it really is off putting when a business lowers themselves to chase me as a customer. It lowers their reputation in my eyes.
 

TandKHunting

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I have unsubscribed from the same companies email multiple times and still get crap from them. They have lost my business forever. Text seems to be more effective in stopping the spam.

To me, it comes across as desperate. I will not change the customers in my business, and it really is off putting when a business lowers themselves to chase me as a customer. It lowers their reputation in my eyes.

I see your side for sure. I don't think any business has the intention of annoying a customer. They are just using standard marketing tactics that are proven to work. Obviously it's not going to work for everyone, but you would be surprised the number of conversions they lead to.
 

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Or maybe, just MAYBE don’t log in or put something in the cart unless you’re going to buy. Mind frickin blown.
I never logged in to their site, nor did I put anything in my cart.

I hit the site to check a price or size on a piece of gear and got like 2 or 3 texts and 2 emails over the next 36 hours

Texting back "STOP" worked to stop that and unsubbing from emails seems to have helped
 
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The pack in that spam email looks really heavy. If you want to sell something to a man in a weak moment that has a heavy pack, I think a helicopter is way better marketing. There has to be better profit margins in helicopter sales.
 

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I don't know if kifaru is worse than a lot of other companies, haven't been on their site in a while, but I have probably 5,000 emails from similar places, lancaster is pretty quick to remind you if you put something in your cart. It never makes me want to purchase from anyone more than I already did tho just a little annoying sometimes when trying to price things out from multiple places.
 

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Pro tip: If you use Gmail for your email you can add a +something to any username and it will go to the same inbox, e.g. if you are [email protected] (or [email protected] if anywhere.com is served by Google Business) you can do [email protected].

You can use this to track who is selling your address and to whom. Every new vendor I deal with, I will do [email protected] or similar when checking out or setting up an account. If I start getting spam from an unknown source I can tell immediately who sold my address, and I can set up rules that block all email TO that address from then on, even if it's sold to new "partners." Sometimes those third parties are worse than the original vendors.
 

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Nearly every company does this now. It takes 5 seconds to unsubscribe from any email list

There are multiple companies that I've "unsubscribed" from their email lists several times, and still keep getting crap from them. In theory, your statement is true, in practice, it isn't always that simple/fast.
 

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So, you use the
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I don't use my real email for ANY purchases. I have a separate account that I use this suffix on, and this technique works very well there. E-commerce sites are not smart enough to pick apart email address segments to try to guess root accounts - they get so many real ones to work with as it is, they don't bother. (+ is a valid letter in an email account prefix so they can't know for sure, anyway.)

I believe your reply was made as a joke, but it is doxxing and inappropriate to post a real email (even a guess at one) in a forum reply. Spam bots DO scrape forums for emails like this, so basically you're doing the equivalent of subscribing somebody you dislike to gay porn mailers. It's a jerk move, and I urge you to remove your reply.
 

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I don't use my real email for ANY purchases. I have a separate account that I use this suffix on, and this technique works very well there. E-commerce sites are not smart enough to pick apart email address segments to try to guess root accounts - they get so many real ones to work with as it is, they don't bother. (+ is a valid letter in an email account prefix so they can't know for sure, anyway.)

I believe your reply was made as a joke, but it is doxxing and inappropriate to post a real email (even a guess at one) in a forum reply. Spam bots DO scrape forums for emails like this, so basically you're doing the equivalent of subscribing somebody you dislike to gay porn mailers. It's a jerk move, and I urge you to remove your reply.
Calm down dude and untwist thy panties.

I was simply trying to understand what you were saying.
 

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Pro tip: If you use Gmail for your email you can add a +something to any username and it will go to the same inbox, e.g. if you are [email protected] (or [email protected] if anywhere.com is served by Google Business) you can do [email protected].

You can use this to track who is selling your address and to whom. Every new vendor I deal with, I will do [email protected] or similar when checking out or setting up an account. If I start getting spam from an unknown source I can tell immediately who sold my address, and I can set up rules that block all email TO that address from then on, even if it's sold to new "partners." Sometimes those third parties are worse than the original vendors.
This is a cool thing. Thank you for this explanation.

Hope my broken brain can remember it next time I punch an email in somewhere
 
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