While I would generally agere with you completely, there are marketers with whom I have a very personal relationship. What sticks out to me (because they sent

While I would generally agere with you completely, there are marketers with whom I have a very personal relationship. What sticks out to me (because they sent me an email today discussing gmail's new layout and how to ensure I kept getting their emails) is my comic shop. They go through effort to know what I like, what to recommend to me, etc., etc., and are super friendly to boot (not affiliated plug, Third Eye Comics in Annapolis are AWESOME). I genuinely want the emails they send me, even their most basic one-way emails provide me active value, and the relationship does transcend a more traditional marketing relationship, like the one I have with Amazon. In short, it would not surprise me to know that there are other businesses that share more personal relationships with their customers than the merchant-customer model.