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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: "T

• 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.