A hostel company I stayed with a while back emailed me with the subject: “Your booking is confirmed!”. This made me frantically check all my accounts since I hadn’t booked any hostels recently. I was super concerned until I opened the email and saw… it was a stupid marketing email…
This kind of marketing should be illegal. Don’t use Clink Hostels.
A “Swanky Hostel.”
Yup that’s a scam email.
You should regularly book rooms with Thema and cancel the very last poasible second to cause financial harm. At some point they will man you and stop mailing you
This is like how in recent months I’ve been receiving “your account will be shut down” messages from services I’ve been using for literal decades, simply because I only use them 2-3 times a year, when they are actually useful to me, rather than regard them as some sort of social media platform.
It’s super pathetic attention whoring by companies that lost any sense of what value they bring to their customers.
Damn, “removed” is a slur now?
lemmy.ml has an AWESOME censorship system. If even say it’s BITCHIN’! Yesterday someone also brought up its kinda sad when you’re on that instance and someone says “this material is fire retardant”
The Dark ***ht from Christopher Nolan was a perfect 5/7
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Not if you’re lucky enough to be on Lemmy.ml! They censor HEAPS of words.
I haven’t been able to access it on Jerboa because of a token problem.
Where did this come from?
Heads up there are slurs on this page :) https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/816/commits/92aa16ae41401a057f47199de586c997a41a7bf8#diff-64aa9b484d4b3759cc0dd469329aa5a6bab87366c6c55eb61d9a1d1129201fcd
swanky new hostel you say?
At clink hostel none the less
Would instantly unsubscribe, leave negative reviews and never stay there again.
And report the email as spam on Gmail
Op is using ProtonMail, there’s a report button there also.
I hope Gmail aggregates the reports from other platforms, because most of Clink’s target market uses Gmail
Send a message to their help desk saying you got an email confirmation and would like to cancel it. Act very confused about the situation. Waste their time and make it their problem.
This also wastes OPs time though
Pay me enough, and I’ll waste everyone’s time. Wait…
Did I just reinvent lobbying?
Not if you automate it!
time is just a construct
On top of that, it also doesn’t waste the responsible team’s time. It wastes the help desk’s time who have little to no say in this subject.
That’s why you escalate straight to legal. Waste the time of someone more expensive than the idiots in marketing.
And op won’t even be getting paid to do it
Better yet, demand loudly to get a refund. When they say there is nothing to refund, insist that you have an email confirming a booking.
Escalate to management as quickly as possible so you’re not just annoying some poor front desk worker that had nothing to do with it.
Call center “management” is typically not an actual manager, and definitely not involved with the decision either.
Can’t be legal
Blacklist the company from your emails. They have lost emailing privileges.
Time to add their email to your spam filter and not see their emails again.
Time to gpdr your info back from them.
Can such marketing tactics be reporting to any appropriate government agency? Better Business Bureau? I know this is not illegal and it should be.
BBB is a scam. Companies just buy their scores on there.
To be more clear - It is Yelp for old people.
“My payment has been confirmed via paypal! No? Now you know how I feel.”
I get physical junk mail that makes it seem like I purchased something, subscribed to something, or signed up for something. It’s infuriating to say the least, probably illegal, too.
Same. Similar to those extended warranty scams, you’ll see the disclaimer in teeny tiny print at the bottom of the page on the backside.
I just bought a car and my wife keeps wanting me to look at all the “final notice” crap we keep getting. I told her if it isn’t from our insurance company then toss it.
I open them up. If there’s a prepaid return envelope, I tear off everything with my information (including any barcodes), stick it in the envelope, and mail it back. Blank, of course.
But then they have to pay the postal service to mail it, and someone to open it.
I’m a job creator!Back in the day you could tape their prepaid letters to bricks and have em pay for it.
Now the Post Office just chucks it as “dead mail” same as other “non-mailable items” found in mailboxes.
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