A hostel company I stayed with a while back emailed me with the subject: “Your booking is confirmed!”. This made me frantically check all my accounts since I hadn’t booked any hostels recently. I was super concerned until I opened the email and saw… it was a stupid marketing email…
This kind of marketing should be illegal. Don’t use Clink Hostels.
Just show up and show them the booking confirmation!
Blacklist the company from your emails. They have lost emailing privileges.
I get these too.
The best part is that they keep getting added to my Google calendar. I have the option tuned off in my Google account settings, I report them as spam as soon as I get them, but I still get pop up notifications from my Google calendar reminding me of my “trip”.That’s because gmail automatically adds .ics files to your calendar. I don’t even think there’s a way to disable it. I checked and my solution was to not use gmail for those things. For spam emails luckily I don’t have this problem
Weird, mine asks me if I want to add things to my calendar still, up by the header, same spot it puts the “is this spam” question box
This is like how in recent months I’ve been receiving “your account will be shut down” messages from services I’ve been using for literal decades, simply because I only use them 2-3 times a year, when they are actually useful to me, rather than regard them as some sort of social media platform.
It’s super pathetic attention whoring by companies that lost any sense of what value they bring to their customers.
Where did this come from?
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Not if you’re lucky enough to be on Lemmy.ml! They censor HEAPS of words.
You should regularly book rooms with Thema and cancel the very last poasible second to cause financial harm. At some point they will man you and stop mailing you
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That’s a good way for their emails to all get marked as scams. They think they’re being slick, but are actually destroying their marketing campaign.
Literally who the hell is gonna see this and think “ah what the hell?”
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Gotta go for the short term gains, babyeeeee!
Get that bonus, apply for jobs elsewhere. Rinse and repeat.
Would instantly unsubscribe, leave negative reviews and never stay there again.
Op is using ProtonMail, there’s a report button there also.
A “Swanky Hostel.”
Yup that’s a scam email.
“My payment has been confirmed via paypal! No? Now you know how I feel.”
Can such marketing tactics be reporting to any appropriate government agency? Better Business Bureau? I know this is not illegal and it should be.
BBB is a scam. Companies just buy their scores on there.
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I get physical junk mail that makes it seem like I purchased something, subscribed to something, or signed up for something. It’s infuriating to say the least, probably illegal, too.
I open them up. If there’s a prepaid return envelope, I tear off everything with my information (including any barcodes), stick it in the envelope, and mail it back. Blank, of course.
But then they have to pay the postal service to mail it, and someone to open it.
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At least it didn’t state “Your booking is confirmed for the presidential suite in (insert very expensive hotel and location here)” and make you feel you need to make a lot of phone calls to many different places while trying to figure out what is going on.
Is there an asshole design community on lemmy?