SPAM

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Like every­one else on the plan­et nowa­days, I get unso­licit­ed com­mer­cial email. It seems to come in waves, and I get the same sorts of sub­jects over and over and over.

Two things make me think that spam­mers are not the most savvy of marketers:

1) OK, if I’m gonna be cheap and cut cor­ners and risk get­ting some nasty fake copy of the real prod­uct I want to get, I’m gonna try that with some­thing that does­n’t mat­ter. Cheap pota­to chips? Lemme at them. Cheap v‑neck t‑shirts? I’m all over it. Cheap Via­gra? Uhh­hh, no, if I have use for Via­gra I’ll pay full price thanks.

2) What mar­ket­ing genius thought it would be a good idea to put Via­gra out in SOFT TABS? Huh? I mean HELLOOOO. Call ’em ‘easy to swal­low tabs’ or some­thing, but don’t try to sell me erec­tion med­i­cine while hyp­ing up the flac­cid­i­ty of your product.

Some folks are just dumb.

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4 Replies to “SPAM”

  1. Ya nev­er know, if some­one’s
    Ya nev­er know, if some­one’s dif­fi­cul­ties with flac­cid­i­tude are, um, anx­i­ety relat­ed, then maybe sofffffft tablets could be a lit­tle… reassuring.

  3. Why is it that
    Why is it that spammer’s only hus­tle the low­est com­mon denom­i­na­tor of sell-able goods through their schemes? 

    I mean if your going to annoy the hell out of the entire west­ern world by inun­dat­ing them with use­less and mean­ing­less text based noise, on the off hand chance that a small per­cent­age of peo­ple will be naive enough to fall for the trick at least once. Then why not try and step up the qual­i­ty of the swin­dle to some­thing along the lines of study­ing at the Sor­bonne, or attend­ing a closed-door ses­sion of Con­gress. Rather than the end­less guides to bet­ter sex, or the ubiq­ui­tous Via­gra ads. 

    Since they are all scams any­ways, and your tar­get­ing peo­ple savvy enough to have an email account in the first place. Wouldn’t it stand to rea­son that if the cheese were a bit tasti­er, more “online” peo­ple would fall for the deception?

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