No need to feel bad about it.
Marketers know that a lot of people immediately unsubscribe but they also know not everybody will. They still turn a profit after the discount and also just made a sale!
Additionally, I wouldn’t be surprised if some merchants pass along/sell your email address, since now its in their system.
Also: companies will fuck you over any chance they get. You’re breaking no laws. Use every tactic you can to claw back any of your hard earned money you can.
Also: don’t use your real details to subscribe. It is best to have a burner spam email address, a burner prepaid sim card and use a made up address.
I really wanna be able to go about my life and not feel like I’m in hiding or witness protection or something of the like. It’s so demoralizing that it’s coming down to having fake backups for your fake backups.
With facial recognition taking off youll need full disguises to get groceries at a reasonable price soon
Exactly all of this. Don’t feel bad about the shitty adversarial process the greedy fucks put you through. They started it and god damn it they deserve to be buried for it.
In 99% of online purchases you have to give them your email either way, so it doesn’t really matter if you additionally sub to their newsletter.
Tha’s why I give gibberish emails whenever I can
myemailprefix+whateverwebsite@emaildomain.com
“Sorry, + are not allowed in email addresses.”
Fine, 🙄 you get one of the garbled addresses from my vpn service, which is even less useful to your scrapers.
website@mypersonaldomain.com is pretty great too with a catch-all mailbox set up
“Dude. Dude. We not only got your personal data, we also got a sale which was, let’s be honest, still plenty overpriced, just a little less so now. Yea, you ‘got’ us…”
If they can charge 15% less for subscription, that means they are overcharging you 15% all the time.
If you forget to cancel, the re-order is at full price. They are betting that you will forget or that you will be willing to pay full price to keep getting it.
This isn’t so gigabrained as it sounds.
You know that mom and pop store? The one that has the most noble, most generous owners ever? Even they are overcharging you. Because that’s how stores work; they’ve built the foundation, done the advertising and prep work, to get unreliable rates of customers.
How I think of it is, it trades spontaneous windfall purchases (on the store’s part) for reliability and consistency. The latter helps pay for employees putting their product on a stable trend, more than constantly chasing some new trend for profitability.
Subscriptions are often stupid and anticonsumer. Not always.
Say a thank you to the FTC that there is a one click unsubscribe. Your nanny state libtards made that possible. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/10/federal-trade-commission-announces-final-click-cancel-rule-making-it-easier-consumers-end-recurring
Didn’t the Republicans immediately repeal that when they came to power?
Nope, but they stripped the department down and put in a stooge as chair/commissioner. A shame since the last chair was smart and motivated, Lina Khan.
That’s not evil or even wrong a tiny bit. In fact, you never even received the item when it was delivered, it was just a brick, so go and make a full refund claim.
Fuck Amazon
Remember to use an alias for your email for this kind of shit.
Jokes on you, your email will never be deleted and has already been added to 1000 marketing dbs.
I set a rule to put every email with the ‘usubscibe’ word in it straight to junk. They can all rot in the jail together.
They got your $85 and your data. Worth the 15% by far.
Subscribe and save is just the original product price before they marked it up
Just use a disposable email. There’s no guarantee that the company didn’t delete/ unsubscribe your email
Use catch-all emails so if someone shares you know who
They still keep the record of all the information you provided, likely including email, name, what you purchased, with what payment method, and more.
They will be able to make statistical inferences of your socioeconomic status variables and can and will resell that data to others who will absolutely not give a shit about your unsubscribe status. In the end it may be worth the 15% off for her, but it is definitely not scamming them by unsubscribing.
Which is why you use a burnable email
That keeps them from contacting you, it doesn’t keep them from storing information on you. Your name, address, and credit card are all things you have to give them to get the thing you purchased.
Unrealistic. They hide that unsubscribe button or make it not functional.
Also hijack your back button as punishment.
> Unsub, laugh maniacally
> See new opportunity to subscribe
> Cannot get “new subscription” bonus because they got enough data to tell it’s you again
> surprised_pikachu_face.jpgAlso they sold your data to the next broker.
I’m fucking tired of all these websites making you give your email, and hunt for a coupon and a sale to buy something while Amazon has the same item for the same “discounted” price from the get go, as much as I hate supporting Amazon, these other companies don’t make it any easier to buy from them, and on top of that their orders take 6-10 days to deliver and many times require a minimum dollar amount before free delivery kicks in, while Amazon can deliver it in 2 days for free.
Yeah I tend to avoid Amazon and only extremely rarely do I buy from them. I mostly buy on eBay and direct from the company websites nowadays
Amazon also has a minimum dollar amount before free delivery kicks in
I usually use my siblings prime account to order which I guess bypasses that requirement, but even without prime I think Amazon’s minimum is usually far less than some other online stores
I think it depends where you live, for me the minimum is $35 which is basically on par with others. I find that I can often get lower cost items with free shipping on ebay for around the same price as similar items on amazon to avoid having to meet an order minimum, although it depends on what I’m buying.
Isn’t ebay just for preowned stuff
Nope, most things you can buy new on amazon you can also buy new on ebay. Sometimes it comes in packaging with labels implying it was shipped from other retailers like amazon, walmart or home depot, I’m assuming this is because some sellers get memberships for free shipping and arbitrage it.
10minute mail! I’ll never get your marketing emails, and I’m a new customer every time!!!
