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I usually opt-out of all marketing emails whenever I can, but my pet peeve is when e.g. my bank tells me about a new feature in their mobile app or something ot
by United857 7y ago
I usually opt-out of all marketing emails whenever I can, but my pet peeve is when e.g. my bank tells me about a new feature in their mobile app or something otherwise trivial, and claims it's a "important account-related" email that I can't opt out of.
To me, important is "We saw $5000 charges to your account from Elbonia, can you verify?". "Download our new app with new redesigned UI!" is not.
- jermaustin1 7y agoWhat about notification of an actual account level feature like: "We now support instant transfers between you, and your family/friends!"? Would you still consider that a marketing email or a notification?
- paulie_a 7y agoIt's marketing focused You might have opted in by joining the service but those are worthless emails no one gives two shit about.
- United857 7y agoIt's marketing to me. It's fine if you communicate it via your website or app when I log in. But do not send me email, SMS or push notifications about these things if I don't want it, those should be reserved for "action required" things.
- choward 7y agoThat's absolutely a marketing message. It's most likely a feature that I don't care about and benefits the company more than me. I don't need my phone to vibrate. If I received a transfer that's a different story.
- JohnFen 7y agoThat's 100% a marketing message.
- kerkeslager 7y agoA marketing email. Just because I am a user of some of your products is not permission to market me your other products. Your example even reads like a marketing release. You've really somehow determined who my family and friends are, and you now support instant transfers to that specific group of people? If it were true it would be creepy, but it's unlikely. The reality is probably that you support instant transfers to other accounts at the bank, or within a network of banks, which is obviously useful, but you have no idea who might own accounts I would transfer to, and you're citing friends and family because it plays as more social. You know what the feature is, but you didn't describe it accurately--that's not exactly a lie, but it's certainly not honest either. The reason you're not just saying what you mean is because you're trying to sell me something you know I'm not that interested in.
- treebornfrog 7y agoCouldn't agree with you more. I get marketing SMS with pictures from my network provider about the new iPhone etc. Its terrible.
- qrbLPHiKpiux 7y agoI gave up and accept this as the normal standard. I just delete it and move on. Also gave up on “inbox 0.” That’s an unattainable goal. Better luck putting my self on the moon.
- 0xffff2 7y ago>Also gave up on “inbox 0.” That’s an unattainable goal. As someone who has never had any trouble maintaining inbox 0 I have to ask, why?
- goatherders 7y agoSame. 0 is easy.
- webninja 7y ago34,586 unread emails are too many to click on so I just created a second email for family and friends only and quit checking my primary.
- magashna 7y agoI setup a wildcard for my domain and then use promos.Company@mydomain for anything new I sign up for which makes it manageable. Plenty goes to my promotional wildcard, odd things to the wild wildcard (junked), and only important direct emails go to my actual inbox.
- treebornfrog 7y agoInbox 0 really triggers me. Simply put, if you are unable to get to 0 (work related), then you need to take on less. I run a business and get less than 10 emails per day, what is everyone doing that is filling up their inboxes so much?
- rkagerer 7y agoI always send a chastising reply. I know one message may not do much, but I've been surprised to occasionally get a response (usually from smaller vendors) promising to be more judicious in the future. If enough people bitch at them for wasting eyeball time with trivial matters they might take notice...