Comments on: Fraudulent Adult PR Emails

By: Adriana

Adriana — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:51:20 +0000

The other day I got an unrelated but similar-in-nature message about my non-adult site. It, too, had the tell-tale space after the name. The fact is, even if it is a legitimate company - even a good one, at that - the canned e-mail approach is sloppy and rude. I completely agree. That -is- the definition of spam.

By: james

james — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:32:20 +0000

Bacchus, first off, I agree with you over the cookie-cutter emails, the canned responses, and the over glorified spam, right down to the can key taped on the bottom. One thing that is interesting is the fact that she not only opened up a dialog to you, she did it publicly in the form of comments, and took the chastisement in stride, not only from you, but from the potential chastisement of the rest of the readers. That right there sets her above most, who either don’t care, or decide to do the whole email war behind the scenes.

Liz, kudos to you for allowing yourself to be openly flamed for a grievance. Either you are genuinely concerned about your reputation, or you are harboring some deep submissive BDSM tendencies. ;) In either case Chris will be happy! Congrats on the marriage, and GL with that.

One way you could probably have helped would have been to add a little humor, even with a generic email address on the return receipt. Would be better to have it as staff@{website}.com and them make a mention that the pun was intended. That would be one way to personalize the message instead of offering a canned response that doesn’t even have a flip-top and loaded with amber, bubbly liquid. I hope your product succeeds, and that you pull something from this experience. Best of luck to you.

By: Cand86

Cand86 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:59:22 +0000

Oh, and P.S., while I do like Vibrator Guides and learned a lot from them, I still thought this was hilarious:

“Batteries go in one end. Other end goes on or near her/your clit. Cheap ones burn out fast. Most won’t survive in the bathtub. Get a rechargeable if you use them a lot. Gold standard for lots of sensation is the Hitachi Magic Wand. Next question?”

By: Cand86

Cand86 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:57:18 +0000

I think now is the perfect time for a good long post on how, exactly, you do successfully manage that tricky, labor-intensive, difficult, time-consuming process to come out with something hand-crafted that speaks to somebody.

I’m curious, and I think that could potentially help a lot of eager folks like Liz who are a bit clueless and automatically think that a generic e-mail is the way to go.

I mean, not to let the spammers get a better way to hassle you, Bacchus, but to promote a better business model, perhaps.

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:36:24 +0000

No aag,

I sent the email to you initially, thinking you were the owner of the site. You send me the link to this thread, so I only assumed it was your site. After realizing it was not, I posted it here.

I assure you, this whole mess will not happen again. I’ve deleted all 15 of the email addresses I had and shall take a much different approach when posting articles in the future.

By: aag

aag — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:52:04 +0000

They didn’t (yet) send me a pony, but they did send me a copy of the message posted above.

I think this means that they email-spammed and comment-spammed all in one fell swoop.

Awesome!

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:08:46 +0000

wow, I should have run that through Word. LOL