pete_scorpa3 Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 Foolishly I decided to vote in the recent poll for the face of a certain UK Weekly trials newspaper. Go to the web site and vote for free, it said. When I tried to vote, it insisted that I create and log on with a user account. No harm in that I thought. At the bottom of the page, there is a small box asking if you'd like to opt out of their partners contacting you with special offers. Naturally I clicked this box. When I submitted my vote, the page came back with an error message, so not being one to be put off easily I filled in all the information again. But and this was my big mistake, I forgot to scroll down and click the little box. No sooner had I pressed vote, than I realised my mistake but as the error message came up a second time I thought no harm had been done, other than the whole process being a waste of time. I'm registered with the mail preference service but within two days I start to get bombarded with junk mail, financial advice, furniture sales, insurance, credit cards, cr*p, cr*p, cr*p. And what's more I never did get to vote. Nothing more than a money making scam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old trials fanatic Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 Welcome to the wonderful world of sales and marketing. Thats why after 21 years i got out. Ok i may now be skint but at least i've got my integrety and self esteem back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmyl Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 How come in the days of being green and eco friedly when even thinking of mixing your two stroke oil will kill off half of antartic can junk mail still be allowed. What must the costs be in printing, transporting and then collecting in refuse or recycling for nobody to read. About time they taxed every bit of junk or unrequested mail PS Councils are the worst - had 2 full size A4 enevolopes posted last week with glossy A4 glossy blurb in English and Welsh saying how good they where. One addresed to me and one to the missus (in case we wouldn't let each other read it). Went straight in the bin anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b40rt Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 (edited) Pete_Scorpa3 you might like to reply to this :- Internet Banking We regret having to terminate your account with HSBC. Please be advised of the following change to your online account. Your account would be effectively terminated due to the recent information gathered from your profile does not match your background data. This may be our increasing inflation problem which have forced your account to close down several of its operations. Your account will cease operation effective after 24hrs.. Our automated security systems have indicated that access to your online account will be blocked after 24hrs. If the details you registered is all about you please click ........ to cancel the termination process. We regret any inconvenience caused... Best regards, HSBC Customer Support (this has been forwarded to HSBC phishing ) Edited March 17, 2010 by B40RT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan williams Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 Do what I do. Take the prepaid reply envelope, seal it (or if you have the time pack it with material from other junk mail so it costs more. Just make sure your address isn't on any of it.) and send it back to them. If enough people did this they'd see a huge spike in the cost of direct mail and might back off a bit. Think of it as creating jobs opening the returned mail. I like to help the economy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickymicky Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 Put everything in a plain envelope and post it to Mx&mx news, stamp not necessary,but be sure to mark it "Subscriptions" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_scorpa3 Posted March 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 Why they think people who ride trials or mx bikes are likely to be customers for leather suites I don't know. It really is junk mail! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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