This is NOT Spam!
I repeat … this is NOT Spam!
This ticks me off so badly that I even created a new category just for it! (We have a new Just Venting category here!)
Excuse me while I vent here a moment …
Ugh, there is nothing I hate more than a Spam Complaint from Aweber! It drives me absolutely crazy! First of all, every single one of our newsletters are Double Opt In. So, let’s review here … what does Double Opt In mean? Well, simply put moron … you didn’t just subscribe once but you subscribed twice! How did you subscribe twice you say? Well, first YOU entered your email address into our little subscription box. Then, I don’t even have your email address as of yet. I don’t even know YOU entered it. Because, the system keeps it all to themselves until YOU confirm it. How do YOU confirm it? Well you see my dear, YOU will get a confirmation email in YOUR email account (which by the way is still your little secret) and YOU have to PHYSICALLY click on the link. OR futhermore, those of you with those little ole AOL accounts - those of you that are twice as fast to hit that spam button usually have to physically COPY AND PASTE the stinking confirmation link meaning you have to do more than just click! (No offense to you good AOLers, lol!)
So, just a little piece of information for ya … YOU subscribed basically twice. (Oops, did I say that already?) But, here’s the kicker … did you even read what you were signing up for? So, these email addresses that you’re holding near and dear and cryign that you’ve been spammed …. you would think that you would REALLY READ what you were getting.
If you sign up to a newsletter that says you’re going to get a recipe once a week. Oh my gosh, guess what you’re going to get? I bet you’re going to get a recipe once a week in your email account!
If you sign up for weekly updates on a website offering new products, specials ect, guess what? That’s what you’re going to get!
And if you sign up for weekly articles with an occassional special … Now I don’t have to tell you what you’re going to get, do I? Wow, amazing how that works, isn’t it?
Okay, now that this is off my chest … dang it, I get so irritated when someone accuses us of spam!! What the heck more do they possible want? And here’s the kicker … one of our newsletters, which we already give them a heads up that they’re going to get the occasional special, they don’t hit the spam button when it’s a special, oh no, they do it when we’ve sent out a freaking article!! It would still tick me off if they did it when a special came out but nah, we get them on your average newsletter day 
And the one I love the most (sorry Kara, lol!) is when we get a spam complaint for Kara’s newsletter from RecipesForMom.com. Click on that link. No seriously, please do. What do you see right smack dab in the middle of the page? I bet I know what you see, does it look a little something like this:
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Weekly Recipes |
Weekly Recipes
Receive free recipes in your inbox every week!
Oh my God, what the heck do you think you’re going to receive??? You’re going to get a free recipe in your email account every single week!! Don’t hit the freaking spam button if you don’t want them anymore … hit the danged UNSUBSCRIBE LINK at the bottom of every single issue!! Now you see why I say ALWAYS use Double Opt In? Save yourself from those who can’t read!
Phew, I feel better now, how bout you? 
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Uh yeah, I’m pretty puzzled the recipe list gets the most complaints. Which by the way I NEVER send out anything but recipes to. NEVER! Never more than once a week, never anything more than a recipe and a link to a cookbook at the bottom. Under the recipe no less, so they have to see the recipe before they see the “spam”.
I honestly do not get it. If someone could fill me in I’d be grateful.
Posted by: Kara | September 28th, 2007 13:34
I have emails that I sign up for, that come to me regularly and end up in my spam folder. I know there have been some that didn’t make it to my inbox when I go through spam. I worry that people will get a complaint email, but I don’t put them in the spam folder.
Stupid email accounts do! arghhhh
We’ve been blessed so far to only get a few people asking to be taken off the list and no spam problems. By the third time it’s like DUH, click the unsubscribe button at the bottom you idiot! Yes we can unsubscribe you manually, but it’s much faster to just click it like it says on the bottom of EVERY email from us!
Posted by: val | September 29th, 2007 02:28
LOL! Kara, I KNOW what all you send out … I’m one of your favorite subscribers, lol! Since we’re talking about it anyway, anyone looking for a quick recipe once a week, I highly recommend it
(Hey, why not throw that in there, eh?) Just do us a favor, if you DON’T want the recipes anymore, just hit the UNSUBSCRIBE LINK at the bottom every issue! LOL!
Val, I guess I’ve been dealing with this stuff for way too long because wanna know what I do? When I’m asked to unsbuscribe them, I reply and let them know that they can simply hit the unsub link at the bottom of the issue. Yeah, that’s probably an even bigger waste of my time but dang it … like you said, just click the link idiot! Maybe I’m just saving the next newsletter owner??
Hate to be so harsh but dang it, the punishment for spamming is getting more and more serious everyday. Before you hit that spam button make absolute 100% sure that YOU didn’t request it!
Posted by: Anita | September 29th, 2007 15:43