Relentless Black Friday emails!

Pawnless Endgame · 25 Nov 2018 at 22:30

Does anyone else notice that it's particularly bad this year? The same happened with GDPR about half a year ago. What purpose did that serve? Naff all. The same marketing emails still come in and half of the net is plastered with cookie / GDPR warnings, so the whole exercise has come across as counter-productive imo. Even worse that small parts of the net is out of bounds because of GDPR.

Argos
Nectar Online
Quertee
Tesco
Just-Eat
Skiddle
Sainsbury's
FxSound
Amazon
Microsoft
Virgin Trains
Talkinsights
PayPal
eBay
Virgin Media
Facebook
Trainline
Google Maps
Railcard
YouTube

Ok I don't mind the YouTube ones as they're just comments but I could do without the rest. It's almost daily! What do you guys do with these other than the daily delete routine? Manually unsub from each one? I tried that with Argos, but before long, the marketing emails started creeping back in again.

The_Abyss · 25 Nov 2018 at 23:05

Most European-based businesses are ok now - not all but most. I delete the emails from the better ones that I want to stay subscribed to, and unsubscribe / junk the remainder.

Email is becoming less and less relevant for me - fast becoming just a confirmation channel for something I've already done elsewhere.

Rroff · 25 Nov 2018 at 23:08

It seems almost desperate this year compared to previous ones - I've had a lot more follow-up stuff - fortunately I keep my inboxes fairly well managed and a lot goes straight to spam or easy to file. I suspect that it seems even more than ever this year a lot of the deals are tat that has been overpriced most of the year and now at actual values for its worth but most people are looking for actual deals and not tat - hence the increased amount of spam as they try to drive up sales.

Mrs Seabiscuit · 26 Nov 2018 at 04:40

In all the emails there is an unsubscribe button. Click it if you are fed up with spammy emails.

Haze · 26 Nov 2018 at 06:14

I got about 0, as mentioned there is an unsubsribe option and block option so this stuff does not reach you in the 1st place, your own fault

Rroff · 26 Nov 2018 at 06:18

Haze said:
I got about 0, as mentioned there is an unsubsribe option and block option so this stuff does not reach you in the 1st place, your own fault

TBH some of these I find the occasional mailshot useful or I wouldn't be subscribed to them - but a lot of places seem to be pushing Black Friday to the nth degree this year.

Luckystrike123 · 26 Nov 2018 at 07:01

Gmail is pretty good at filtering out spam emails and I also unsubcribe to anything that manages to get through.

I've noticed a lot more advertising this year but personally I've never bought anything on black Friday or cyber Monday. Deals are not deals if they are similarly priced at other times of the year!

Hades · 26 Nov 2018 at 07:13

I've been inundated with emails about it. But I haven't bought a thing this year.

tom_nieto · 26 Nov 2018 at 07:16

I can’t wait for cyber Monday...

Scania · 26 Nov 2018 at 07:52

This is what marking as junk is for, I’ve had mail from all you list and more but had to go looking in my junk folder to find them!