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a petty WWYD question ...
Our neighbor 2 houses down is a mortgage broker. I have never met him, I've
only met his wife.
He took all the email addresses off our neighborhood
contact list and added them to his weekly update email list (info
on what's happening with the housing market, interest rates, etc.). The
messages always end with "As always, thank you for your client
referrals and should you have any home financing questions or needs,
don?t hesitate to email or to call me direct to discuss."
We are not interested in refinancing (we just refinanced in November), and there's no way I'm going to refer anyone to him
since I've never even met him.
Would you just continue to delete the messages each week and be
annoyed, or reply and ask to be taken off the email list?
I don't want to be unfriendly, and get off on the wrong foot with a neighbor I
haven't even met yet. But on the other hand, I have no need for his
business services and don't appreciate being spammed.
Mr. Sammy Dog
Re: a petty WWYD question ...
I would email and ask to be removed and ask how he got your email address in the first place.
RUDE!
Judging
Unfortunately, there is not. Otherwise I would have done it after the first email!
Mr. Sammy Dog
I think a nice way to respond would be to send an e-mail, thank him for the information and let him know that you're kept a copy for future use. And that due to the abundance of e-mail that you receive on a daily basis you're trying to limit your in coming e-mail and would like to be removed from his mailing list.
If he persists, can you mark him as spam so that you never see the e-mail?
This. And I would bring it up to the neighborhood association. I'm sure you're not the only one that's annoyed.
This. And I'd totally mark it as spam!
*I* am techie so *I* would tell him to take you off his list and gently let him know it's actually illegal to put people on elists without their permission.
Then I'd tell him to individual email everyone, ask them to OPT IN, and tell him to use mailchimp.com which gives him 2,000 emails free, with spams-safety and unsubscribe options.
;-)
I thought it was illegal. We have to specifically ask our clients if they would like to recieve emails when we ask for their address. I would just email him and ask to be removed. Hopefully he won't ignore you.
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To further clarify, the neighborhood contact list he got my email from wasn't put together by a home owners association, it was just one of the neighbors who thought it would be nice to have such a list so she put it together and distributed to everyone in our neighborhood (about 20 houses).
Since everyone's responses here tell me that I'm not alone in thinking this kind of thing is annoying, I think I'll ask him to take me off the list (as nicely as I can) and suggest that in the future, he ask permission before he adds new people to his list.
Mr. Sammy Dog
This. He has to be able to provide documentation to prove that their was either a previous business relationship or that the person specifically opted in or he is breaking the law. Also, I believe it there is an anti-spam law that requires them to provide an unsubscribe option or instructions on how to be removed from the list.