Cancelled Membership to the Program Owners

[HeySal]

I just got one of those "Somebody Killed Themself" emails and was so sickened by it that I unsubscribed from the service completely.

I got a reply that it was a FREE program and I had not upgraded - as if that is an excuse for lack of taste - and I would have received the same email had I been a paid or free member. Then they ran off 40 excuses for the email (being someone else's affiliate, it seems, is reason enough to have no taste or common sense). It was also pointed out to me how many people subscribe to their service - I guess monkey see monkey do is good enough for some folks. As long as there are subscribers, who cares if they haven't one whit of class.

Well here it is on a plate. I never upgraded my service to paid because the stats were showing me that the service was basically useless. IF a lot of your affiliates upgrade Kudos to you and sorry for their luck if they just paid into a service that, likewise, isn't delivering for them.

The only reason I kept my account open at any rate was because I found also, that when I opened my own products to affiliate sales, I thought the service might come in handy for recruitment and would have at that time actually paid into the system.

After that email, however, I realized that if the affiliate troops gained from that service were actually falling for such tactless marketing techniques, that I might end up with more headaches from affiliates who had no clue how to reasonably market my products than my time or money were worth.

You may be very self-satisfied with your techniques and the resulting bankrolls resulting from them. I am not impressed and am glad to have cut my alliance, whether you care one whit if I left or not.

Continued success to you. I feel my best interests have been served and while my bankrolls may never equal your own, I will have the peace of mind of knowing that I run a class act, and for some people masses of money just can't cover a conscience or the resultant clean up efforts of affiliates with no idea of marketing with integrity.

[Steven Wagenheim]

If you could only see me giving you a standing ovation.

Yeah, tasteless doesn't even begin to describe it.

[tickerpirate]

I find is despicable when marketers are so desperate for moola that they stoop to these lows to try and make a sale! I have seen such emails, just not quite as blatant as yours were. I think at that point, when a person reaches that degree, they need to shut everything down and re-think the reason why they got into this business.

Good Job Sal for making a stand!

[HeySal]

Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim

If you could only see me giving you a standing ovation.

Yeah, great Steve........but did you write a song for me

The whole thing was pretty offensive to me. I usually just ignore their emails because of reasons I already cited above - but then I saw that line that someone had killed themself and had to click to see if it were someone I knew - I was concerned it was one of our tribe here. Then to see the punchline was just so disgusting, had the person who wrote it been standing beside me at the time, I'd have bitch slapped them for it.

Then when I wrote to tell them why I was cancelling the first thing I see is that they are pointing out that it's a FREE service. Holy cow. They did eventually about 3 or 4 paragraphs down get around to saying they were "sorry to have offended you........but" LOL - I clicked the cancel account button so fast that it would have amazed anyone to see I can move that fast at my age. LMAO.

I'd had an account with that service since I got online, but each product I made and tested there showed no gain from it. I imagine some niches may see results with it, but there wasn't a reason for me to upgrade. I thought they were mighty jive (to be kind about it) pointing out that I hadn't upgraded, LOL. I don't pay them enough to give a crap? Hahahahahahahahaha. What a lark. I can just see the gold leaf toilet paper in that house. Hahahahahahahahahaha.

They reminded me of the posers who used to try to pick me up when I went dancing - polyester suits, toupees off kilter, and ties dangling in their drinks........"Hi sweetheart.....what's your favorite sport, baby" Hahahahahahahahahahaha. "Track, please make a few out of here". Hahahahahaha.

God I just wonder what some of these people's mommies teach them.

LOL - Tickerpilot............I'm not reputed to be the most mild natured Warrior in the forum. Uh...trust me on that one. I posted this because that service will see the post, and although nobody else will know who they are -- they will, and I will.

[freudianslip27]

Wow, now I've seen everything....................until tomorrow!

It really is sad when people sink to this level to pull and attempt to manipulate people. Certainly not the way to build a business.

Matt

[Paul Lear]

I should certainly think you did unsubscribe after such tasteless email, I've unsubscribed from services for doing much less.

I can only hope I don't end up subscribing to their service myself, as I definitely don't want to be receiving the same email.

I hope you haven't let the email get you down too much?

Paul.

[HeySal]

Originally Posted by Paul Lear

I should certainly think you did unsubscribe after such tasteless email, I've unsubscribed from services for doing much less.

I can only hope I don't end up subscribing to their service myself, as I definitely don't want to be receiving the same email.

I hope you haven't let the email get you down too much?

Paul.

Oh not at all Paul. I'm thinking that one quality affiliate is better than 100 bad ones --- and if they are hanging around for such hype they are sure to be learning that type of marketing tactics.

I have enough foresight after reading the FTC pdf to suspect that people with a lot of affiliates prone to hyping their own sales info that product/service owners might just start get tagged soon with the responsibility for affiliates that act without discretion. So it's probably a good thing I got a wake up call when I did. My niche is one of those that will come under attack under the new guidelines and I want everything to be above board. I'm clean on the product - checked my salespages, removed all testimonials from my pages -- keeping affiliate hype mongers out of my line just makes some real good sense. I don't need problems after the work I put into making my packages and site.

I used the service just to test out certain markets that weren't necessarily good target audiances for my products to see how far off the target I could shoot and still see some returns. I have often seen hype there - but really never thought about it until they ticked me off. I'm thinking about it now. LOL.

[Ralf Skirr]

One or two days after my grandma died I received an email with the subject CONDOLENCES from a well know marketer.

Of course it was not a personal email, of course he just used the 'condolences' hook for a stupid marketing joke.

But given the context when I received it I found it pretty tasteless as well.

He should have realized that, just by mere statistics, such an email subject is not the right one to blast out to a 6 or 7 figure email list.

Ralf