The Brads - Opt Out
September 7th, 2010
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William
September 7, 2010 at 10:50 pmHaha xD
or you can just put them on the blocked senders list =)
Tirani
September 8, 2010 at 12:08 amSo very very true.
Mahbub
September 8, 2010 at 2:20 amFunny! Be sure to uncheck “Tell me about latest products and features” on any site you register on.
Carlos
September 8, 2010 at 3:08 amToo true Brad. If only they would simply settle for your business, and not your sanity.
Luke Jones
September 8, 2010 at 3:54 amUnbelievably true, though the last frame isn’t nearly as annoying as when you get an email that says “Sorry that you’ve unsubscribed, you will be removed from the mailing list within the next ten years.”
Konrad Neumann
September 8, 2010 at 8:40 amha. Yeah. HOW magazine sends me about 8 emails a day… yet fails to send the actual magazine i paid for. sad times.
tebe
September 8, 2010 at 10:11 amThe final guestion being, why in the name of god would he like to get moon boots? :|
Jeff Finley
September 8, 2010 at 11:29 amI see these emails and wonder how people/companies get the time to create such a “robust” automated email marketing campaign. I mean, you make one purchase and without moving a finger you get hit with a dozen emails. It sucks that they’re using these resources to over-promote themselves and make customers annoyed with them.
chris
September 8, 2010 at 11:34 amOh man this one is fantastic. Classic!
Shawn Welch
September 8, 2010 at 1:39 pmhaha, so true
Brad
September 8, 2010 at 3:03 pmWhen will companies realize that email is not an in-your-face, calling you twice a day, bugging the %$#@! out of you medium - we have Sales departments for that!
Seriously, though, to keep email relevant it must be used to foster relationships. The rise of social media is forcing email to evolve, but many companies are left “blasting” emails out 10 times a day to any email address they can find. Foster a little goodwill, respect your customers, and add value to your emails, that’s how to earn the trust and loyalty of your customer base.
Jµ
September 8, 2010 at 4:33 pmSo true !
Monica Hamburg
September 8, 2010 at 6:59 pmPerfect.
Stephanie
September 9, 2010 at 8:49 amI think somebody at Omaha Steaks emails me to tell me what they had for lunch every day.
William MATAR
September 10, 2010 at 7:09 amI love it soooo much hahahaha
Ravi Balla
September 10, 2010 at 10:20 amThis is not an exaggeration. Nice.
cheapo
September 10, 2010 at 2:24 pmIt is actually illegal for them to require a password for you to unsubscribe (in the US) via latest CAN SPAM
Tim Pletcher
September 10, 2010 at 2:26 pmI love the irrelevance of the product! “moon boots” who even cares, NICE!
Liam S.
September 10, 2010 at 2:36 pmThat is great and sooo sooo very true!! Loved it! THANKS
Mark K
September 10, 2010 at 2:50 pmThey missed one: at the end there should be an upsell/crosssell to Premium Moon Boots!
The Dude Dean
September 10, 2010 at 6:18 pmClassic. Good times.
Francisco Vargas
September 10, 2010 at 8:43 pmSo true… Real World…
Bea
September 10, 2010 at 9:48 pmIt’s been over a week since you unsubscribed to Moon Boot Emporium. Would you like to subscribe to our mailing list again?
Gah. Hahaha! Great comic!
Chankey
September 11, 2010 at 4:39 amLOL btw you can mark these kinda e-mails as spam.
Ruben Berenguel
September 11, 2010 at 5:24 amGreat comic, sadly it is too true. Some mailing lists seem to think you are some kind of dumb read-all-I-send-you who won’t even bother to unsubscribe (or ‘mark as spam’, I recently registered in a website and although I selected: no emails I’m receiving an unwanted newsletter). Let’s fight for our email rights!
Ruben
Eli
September 11, 2010 at 7:25 amWhen I get these kind of emails from sites I’ve bought from but don’t want subscription emails from, I start making them as spam with Gmail. Gmail takes care of it. As the comic illustrates, unsubscribing can be difficult.
jahoo
September 14, 2010 at 6:22 amFunny but so true :(
Hannah
September 14, 2010 at 1:07 pmPriceline (cough) Priceline.
Anon
September 14, 2010 at 7:10 pmhttp://www.unsubscribe.com/
slash
September 15, 2010 at 6:58 amTo those with all the solutions, I would suggest that you wiki humor.
As I was going through my dozens of unopened promotion emails I came across “confirm HOW to Geek” that I had not confirmed. It led me to this cartoon. A little ironic.
Now back to the unsubscribe task.
Ptolemy
September 16, 2010 at 2:41 pmI run a couple of small websites and the accounts include unlimited email addresses. I simply create a different email address for EACH company I deal with, having it forward automatically to my permanent (& top secret) permanent one. When I’m smothered with this stuff, I just delete the address I gave them. A bonus - if they sell your email address to third parties, you know who the culprit was. That freedom alone is worth the yearly fee of a web account.
J.L. Faverio
September 19, 2010 at 12:13 amAnother comic I can relate too. This is why I love these, it’s a niche comic strip that generally only designers and developers can comprehend. Makes me feel special.
Goddess
September 21, 2010 at 12:42 pmoh how spot on is this cartoon?!?!!??!
Angela
September 21, 2010 at 9:30 pmLOL! This comic is so funny, but so true! I spent 1 1/2 hrs deleting my e-mails. Most of them I deleted. The ones I knew I put into folders.
Izham
September 23, 2010 at 1:24 pmnice one u have..
ps; well i hope my email here wont subscribe anything
Lea
September 24, 2010 at 3:01 pm:D Just love it! :D It is so correctly in every way! :D
bakdalgana
September 29, 2010 at 10:47 amI mean, you make one purchase and without moving a finger you get hit with a dozen emails.
Erich
September 29, 2010 at 7:16 pmOh how true! Trouble with opting out is some of those spammers are notified when you open their email, then they KNOW your address is correct and can sell it to other spammers. Sux.
Beth
October 1, 2010 at 2:52 pmSeems like any time you buy something on the internet now you are signing up for this nightmare.
Jeni
October 20, 2010 at 1:26 amHaven’t had a good laugh like that in a while. FUNNY! Moon boots.. hahaha
Ayo
November 2, 2010 at 8:01 amLMAO…
Ryan
November 7, 2010 at 2:34 amTrue! Part of my role includes sending these types of emails to people. I constantly raise in staff meetings about how we should opt for a more personal, relationship-building strategy rather than just blast the 50,000 email addresses of our customers with every single offer. I get a lot of vacant looks accompanied with insincere nodding from the old-school sales guys, until it comes time to send another promotion out, and I get the line, “But we really need to include as many people as we can to maximise potential of this promotion”.
The real problem here is that sales managers and managing directors have absolutely ZERO idea about emarketing and social media, and care only about cost.
So please forgive me if you get my emails. I am trying, one campaign at a time, to change the culture.
facebook
November 7, 2010 at 6:59 pmTo those with all the solutions, I would suggest that you wiki humor.
As I was going through my dozens of unopened promotion emails I came across “confirm HOW to Geek” that I had not confirmed. It led me to this cartoon. A little ironic.
Now back to the unsubscribe task. http://faceturkey.com and http://onlinesarki.com or
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Eric R. W.
November 9, 2010 at 1:42 amBrad, this is too funny! Cheers from another Ohioan
-Eric
ailaG
November 13, 2010 at 10:29 amIn my country (Israel) it’s illegal to send commercial spam if you haven’t opted in for that specific spam first
In both e-mail and text messages!
(commercial spam is defined as spam that’s trying to sell you stuff, so unfortunately spam with free offers is still somewhat legal. but still! it actually helped)
rob
February 9, 2011 at 3:30 pmSo, newegg sells moonboots?
mirek
February 10, 2011 at 5:31 amI have moonboots too, I’ll make you my friend on facebook. :D
The void
May 23, 2011 at 9:37 amHahaha… So true…
shovenose
June 10, 2011 at 7:46 pmlol another great comic dude
Bulk Email Sender
July 27, 2011 at 5:54 pmso true and also so common in all kind of websites.
oroscopo 2012
August 24, 2011 at 6:36 amI have moonboots too, I’ll make you my friend on facebook. :D
twitter
September 10, 2011 at 6:52 amBrad, this is too funny
casas de apostas
January 25, 2012 at 9:38 amAnother comic I can relate too. This is why I love these, it’s a niche comic strip that generally only designers and developers can comprehend. Makes me feel special.