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Ah, finally, my time to shine. Amazingly - not too many, given that I use hundreds of unique emails. Tbh this confuses the hell out of people when I give a CSR

Ah, finally, my time to shine. Amazingly - not too many, given that I use hundreds of unique emails. Tbh this confuses the hell out of people when I give a CSR at AcmeBoutique the address AcmeBoutique@myowndomain.com The offenders that I remember: - Men’s Health magazine - local gym - online flower shop - agency that at the time handled visa applications for a local Indian consulate - couple of infoproducts from Producthunt (think “free e-book of 10 most effective cloud practices” type of stuff) gave my email without consent to other sellers of infoproducts.

hateful 5y ago
I gave my email to a gym once to go in as a guest with a friend/coworker. I fully regret it because every time I get spam, it's from blink@[mydomain].
linsomniac 5y ago
I once had a irate business owner call me after I placed an order, demanding to know why their business name was in my e-mail address. After I explained it: "That's pretty clever."
- BonoboIO 5y ago
  HAHAHA Same but it was in the store of Sixt (a european car renting firm)
  - qsi 5y ago
    This has happened to me too, though not at Sixt. "Do you work for our company?"
    - merlyn 5y ago
      Its to the point now that unless the email address is @hotmail or @yahoo, almost everybody assumes that there is some company named domain.com that that said owner of the email works for that company.
- hdkrgr 5y ago
  When I was studying abroad, I lived in a temporary student dorm that was placed in an industrial district with a special permit from the government. I tried to order a textbook online and my transaction got flagged as suspicious, so I had to call a support person, and he wasn't having it. - foreign credit card - address marked as non-residential area - sketchy email-address using their company name Had to take the bus to a bookstore.
- cactusmatt 5y ago
  I also use my catch all to create unique "business" email addresses. The best encounter I had was giving my email address to retail person at a store and having them mistake me for an employee and give me the corporate discount. They asked me why I hadn't mentioned I worked for bigcompany@mydomain.
dylan604 5y ago
A small biz owner that I used to contract with was having a disagreement with American Airlines over the phone because when he was asked to provide his email, he gave an obviously adversarial email taking advantage of his catch-all. I couldn't hear the other side of the conversation, but it was obvious they did not believe that the email was legit. I don't remember the exact address provided, but something along the lines of 'americanairlinesisajoke@domain.com'. The conversation went on for over 10 minutes just over the legitimacy of the email address nevermind the actual issue the necessitated an actual phone call in the first place. He's the type that also will string along the spam callers until they hang up on him, so he enjoys these conversations.
- 0des 5y ago
  buy him a beer for me next time you see him. he has gained an acolyte.

hateful 5y ago

I gave my email to a gym once to go in as a guest with a friend/coworker. I fully regret it because every time I get spam, it's from blink@[mydomain].

linsomniac 5y ago

I once had a irate business owner call me after I placed an order, demanding to know why their business name was in my e-mail address. After I explained it: "That's pretty clever."

BonoboIO 5y ago
HAHAHA Same but it was in the store of Sixt (a european car renting firm)
- qsi 5y ago
  This has happened to me too, though not at Sixt. "Do you work for our company?"
  - merlyn 5y ago
    Its to the point now that unless the email address is @hotmail or @yahoo, almost everybody assumes that there is some company named domain.com that that said owner of the email works for that company.
hdkrgr 5y ago
When I was studying abroad, I lived in a temporary student dorm that was placed in an industrial district with a special permit from the government. I tried to order a textbook online and my transaction got flagged as suspicious, so I had to call a support person, and he wasn't having it. - foreign credit card - address marked as non-residential area - sketchy email-address using their company name Had to take the bus to a bookstore.
cactusmatt 5y ago
I also use my catch all to create unique "business" email addresses. The best encounter I had was giving my email address to retail person at a store and having them mistake me for an employee and give me the corporate discount. They asked me why I hadn't mentioned I worked for bigcompany@mydomain.

dylan604 5y ago

A small biz owner that I used to contract with was having a disagreement with American Airlines over the phone because when he was asked to provide his email, he gave an obviously adversarial email taking advantage of his catch-all. I couldn't hear the other side of the conversation, but it was obvious they did not believe that the email was legit. I don't remember the exact address provided, but something along the lines of 'americanairlinesisajoke@domain.com'. The conversation went on for over 10 minutes just over the legitimacy of the email address nevermind the actual issue the necessitated an actual phone call in the first place. He's the type that also will string along the spam callers until they hang up on him, so he enjoys these conversations.

0des 5y ago
buy him a beer for me next time you see him. he has gained an acolyte.