Sorry, I never read your emails. I just don't want to hurt your feelings by unsubscribing!!!

Business is business!
I seriously doubt you will hurt anyone's feelings for unsubscribing from their list.
If you do, that person may want to find another profession other than internet marketing.
Some people are going to remove themselves from your list eventually. This happens to everyone who has a email opt in list they have built for their business, products and services.

Hey Gary,

I was just thinking about this yesterday. I also receive several newsletters every day and barely read them. I'm not sure why I haven't bothered to opt-out.

Perhaps, subconciously, I'm in the same boat as you. However, I've made a promise to myself lately to not let myself be distracted by several things at once. So, I think in the process of making things a bit more simple, I might just unsubscribe to a few.

The only ones that I actually read are from Clayton Makepeace, Drayton Bird and any that come through from Namecheap or Hostgator.

-Mike

I think a lot of people do that, that is why u have another email address for joining people list and you check that email for nice headline and ad copy,

most people on your list maybe doing the same thing, That's why it important to have an attention grabber headline that make them want to click on your email

Ty Neal

It's been said a lot here lately and your OP gives reason to say it again.

"It's a numbers game."

Super Markets send out tens of thousands of ad papers, a large number of them don't make it from the mail box to the house as they are put in file 13 before the "customer" reaches the house.

There is a lady who stands on the street in LA giving an expensive glossy flyer to all who pass by. A block away the trash can is full of flyers.

I guess the difference is the "merchant" knows when we unsubscribe if he/she checks stats.

I know when I get the dreaded unsubscribe it hurts my feelings so much so please, please don't unsubscribe if you get an email from me. I'll simply die.


George Wright

I have an email address that I only use for subscribing to get free downloads that I dont even check. It has about 5,000 unread emails in it. I use my real email if I know and trust the source and I really need to get the emails for instance the official google or wordpress blogs.

simply unsubscribed no harm done! would they care if you didn't make any money by using their methods!! i don't think so!

Its a #s game is right.

Here is what I do
1. I just set up a command to move them into a folder and if I ever get around to it (there are 3500 unread emails there now), I get around to it.

Now people I know personally who unsubscribe from me, I dont care. Listen I like giving really really good info only to me list once in a while as a thank you. Those who remove would not get that information, so its not my loss, its thier choice.

I had one guy tell me, well I did not know that, you should have told me. I emailed my list that info, if you unsubscribed, its your choice

Nothing personal, its business.

Cheers,
Mukul

Not long ago I unsubscribed from like 95% of the newsletters I was subscribed to because A) sheer volume and B) most of them simply promote stuff.

I really like it now with my uncluttered email inbox

No ... I just hit unsubscribe if I don't want to receive it any longer. If they take it personally, they're not very professional to start with.

As Ron said, just go ahead and unsubscribe without leaving a message. Depending on what type of autoresponder service they're using, they probably won't even know.

But consider this (Mike Schwenk above started to address this point):

Most people run their lists through services like Aweber, GetResponse or any number of other similar services that charge by list size and/or number of emails sent per month. If you're just uselessly taking up space on the list, you could be costing this person money.

Some list owners are sitting right on the line where they have to pay more for their service due to their number of subscribers. If you and other non-interested parties left the list, maybe they'd save some money (by dropping into the lower service fee bracket) while having a more responsive list.

It's like going to a busy restaurant and just ordering water. You're sitting there taking up a table. That costs the restaurant owner and the servers money, because if you weren't sitting there then a real customer could take your place.

Think about it. If your friend owned this restaurant, he'd politely tell you to order something... or leave.

It shouldn't be all that different just because you're online.

Cheers,
Becky

Unsubscribe.

Seriously, if they are runnin any kind of decent sized list, you would simply become a stat.

No major worrying.

That's business and they should also know that. They just have to handle that. Unsubscribe if the newsletters don't help you. You are a customer, it's your choice and if it's bugging you, make it stop.