Legitimate marketing - A Bit of a Rant: Warriors selling email addresses??

Okay I don't post in here a lot, because I'm pretty busy with my own sites... but on occasion, when I'm doing research (or interested in a true offer), I sometimes buy a WSO that is up in the special offers section.

So over the past week or so I bought a few different ones. (Only two were truly outstanding... two gave ideas... but anything else was rehashed junk, but that's another story).

Anyway...

ALL of a sudden in the past about 4 days or so, I'm getting spammed from people I DON'T know, DON'T have any relationship with, but several of them somehow have my name.

The thing is, Okay, if it was my normal email, I would simply unsubscribe and hit delete.

BUT.....

1. They are using my Paypal email (which I don't publicize on websites, so basically the only way they'd get it in most instances is because someone sold it after I bought a product)
2. what's WORSE is that half the time, I'm getting it like 5 days in a row (Or like Saturday - Five EMAILS in the same day from the same person)... claiming I joined the list... but you can't remove yourself!! It SAYS "click to remove"... and you get the "you have been unsubscribed"... but then you STILL get more emails in the next day?

Heeelllllooooo - have people not heard of SCRUBBING a list to make sure that there's no duplicates?? Or to NOT re-add people when they've unsubbed?

Worse yet, WHY would you spam me and SAY you have a relationship with me when I have NO clue who you are?? (In most cases, they DON'T sign their name, OR, they use a fake reply-to address that they just throw away).

What would it take, for someone to say,

"hey, I got your email and thought you might be interested - please OPT IN for more information"??

You know what? I'd actually READ that email. I might still unsub - but I sure as heck wouldn't be reporting for spam if the person legitimately contacted me like that. (Even if they did buy it)

Sorry for the rant - but all that's happening is I hit the SPAMCOP button... (perhaps some of the newer warriors might not know of that one??)

The bottom line:

Legitimate marketing should absolutely NOT include SELLING a person's email address WITHOUT their permission.

If we come in here as buyers in the Warrior forum, we're not coming here to blast our email address to be SPAMMED and SOLD!

While I respect that everyone has the right to do this if they wish, I would think that:

1) If you PLAN on even considering doing this, you might want to put a link to your privacy policy in your WSO and STICK to it! (That way, at least we can read ahead of time IF you plan on selling our contact info - and WE can make the decision NOT to buy your WSO if we are against it)

2) Allen might consider requiring that people who submit a WSO absolutely AGREES NOT to share people's confidential information WITHOUT their permission!

~~ end of rant (for now!) ~~

(Btw - I'm NOT the only one who has complained on this... a few months ago this happened as well and someone else ranted...)

If you're a legitimate marketer - can it PLEASE stop??

TELL US if you are going to sell our contact info and give us the right to OPT OUT.

Make it CLEAR. PLEASE. All you're doing is wasting our time, and giving WSO's a bad rep (cuz you can be sure as heck that I won't be buying any other WSO's for a while, and "IF" I do - it'll be 100% tracked to the owner of the WSO).

Unfortunately I had to (literally) ban some domains from reaching our server entirely (which means they are completely blocked from emailing ANY of several domains). It'll never get here. What does that do for a marketer trying to make money who thinks they are doing what they should be? Not good for them at all.

Whew. Ok. I'm done for the moment. Anyone else just as frustrated?

Amber