A few weeks ago, I started getting mining and industrial tooling product info and catalogue emails from the ferret crowd. Every 4 days or so. It kinda fit with my one of my other interests, woodturning. And I had been searching to carbide tooling info.
Thing is, they all arrived at an email address that I rarely use (I have several), never ever in web searches and almost solely for personal, private correspondance. So I really was confuzzled how they even knew of it and my full real name !
And it was a proper b@stard to unsubscribe. It tooks me 7 or 8 goes over a month. I still don't know if I'm unsubscribed from their damn lists. Turns out that they are a sort of info clearing house for a number of similar but unrelated companies.
Here's the kicker - I googled "email branded mugs" after I read your recent post (crazy, I know) and they were second or third on the list. I never followed the link so I hope I'm not on their lists again.
Thing is, they all arrived at an email address that I rarely use (I have several), never ever in web searches and almost solely for personal, private correspondance. So I really was confuzzled how they even knew of it and my full real name !
And it was a proper b@stard to unsubscribe. It tooks me 7 or 8 goes over a month. I still don't know if I'm unsubscribed from their damn lists. Turns out that they are a sort of info clearing house for a number of similar but unrelated companies.
Here's the kicker - I googled "email branded mugs" after I read your recent post (crazy, I know) and they were second or third on the list. I never followed the link so I hope I'm not on their lists again.

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