When Paypal Spams
In my endless slog of deleting emails that are useless and distracting in my inbox, I was shocked to see Paypal email that usually signals a banking transaction or some other communication that begs my notice. Paypal wanted me to know about international services possibilities and some urls they wanted to visit on their site. Are you f-ing kidding me?
I know for a fact I am one of the Paypal customers who have selected opt-out when their pointless self-publicizing emails are concerned. There is no justifiable reason I should be receiving anything from email at Paypal or that url and its origins that is not connected to my personal banking. Paypal is abusing its position as a trusted email sender at this point.
Spam is not banking. It’s advertising. And since they’ve already collected their slice of my earnings, I’d prefer it if they not waste my time.
Be advised this is a full-blown rant from a domainer who is offended that their bank sees fit to use its status as a must-read email source to flog their services. Hint: I am already a customer.
Paypal has no business using their connection to me an an electronic customer to wave their shingle and beg for more fees. Paypal takes a slice of whatever I earn and I have long gotten accustomed to accepting this as a cost of doing business with them. Apparently they are greedy for more fees and this is the communication they have sent to me, using my email address and name, url links on their site that neither apply to be or my services.
That’s a greedy bank.
Paypal should know better. One of the last things I need to spend my time doing right now is weeding through their pointless “communications” unless they are regarding critical financial transactions and money issues. That’s why I open an email from Paypal. Not because I’m lonely and just can’t seem to find a single site online to look at.
Paypal is getting like Ebay now, where they fill your inbox with things you’d rather not see and daily weigh the utility of still being a customer. I would like Paypal to be a bank and operate like a bank, and not be weighted down by its need for attention and traffic. Paypal is a site which should wait for when it is convenient for me to go there, and not distract me in the meantime.
This is a point many webmasters have made but Paypal reigns supreme currently and nobody will challenge them.
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I make a folder near the top of all my other email folders and immediately sort the Paypal mail to there. It keeps it out of the way.
My bank does this too. They make you think it’s important then it’s just nothing but another credit card offer.