More Re-Spamming: It's really Fun!

This is my re-spamming message below.



'Thanks!

My books are at http://www.lulu.com/abeautifulcow

Steve'





Re-Spamming is possibly not my invention but it's a really fun activity and I highly recommend it. If you have something to sell - and who of us doesn't? Then simply reply to your spamm e-mails with your own advertisement for whatever you've got that you want to unload. Here's the thing: There are real people somewhere out there on the other end of that spam and at some point a 'real' person will have to look at it. They buy things, too, don't they? Maybe they want to buy your stuff.

And you're not imposing on them at all because they e-mailed you in the first place and they wanted to hear from you! So, you're not being (possibly) intrusive like they were.

Okay, I don't believe any of them actually have bought one of my books, although they should because every one of them is entertaining - but, start your Steve Sommers library with one of the Lulu books first.

So far, I've gotten three responses to my re-spamming. The first was from a man who said he would tell his friends with children ... I count that as a positive. The second was actually a response to the blog about the respamming. It was from a guy for payday loans who seemed a bit hurt that I was doing this, being critical of the way he was doing business. The third was just
a response to the connection where I could opt out of their spamm.

I re-re-spammed! Oh, that was so sweet. After all, instead of just giving me the option of opting out, why didn't they not send it to me in the first place? Problem solved, wouldn't you say?

Oh well. I can't really say why advertisements via e-mail seem so much more intrusive then other kinds of advertisements. We watch TV and that's alright, or the radio. Every day stuff comes in the mail and just as fast it goes into the garbage and that's alright, too. E-mail (and telephones, too) are more private, I think. You want to use both for your own business and didn't purposely expose yourself to these ads.

They must work, I'm guessing. If they didn't my yahoo bulk mail wouldn't be filled with their stuff. Like most people, I have a few mail boxes; the first one that I seldom ever use now has 20,577 e-mails (I just checked). Yahoo empties it every thirty days so there are a hell of a lot of people spending a hell of a lot of money and getting nothing back at all.

I only ever bought once. It was for business cards and I wanted some business cards and they were cheap. So, there you go. They got some of their money back for their trouble. But the rest of them? Nope.

Speaking of which, since I do have so many spamm e-mails that need re-spamming, I better get to work. Just in that one mail box I have over twenty thousand people I can annoy. One of them must like science fiction.