Sort of a similar story. Once a few years ago I bought my wife a book from Amazon and have since received email from them at various points. I finally decided I no longer wanted it and looked for an easy way to "opt-out." Just as stated, you seemingly had to jump hoops if you didn't know your password (I didn't, I had ordered a long time ago).
I wasn't looking forward to calling them and wasting more time, so I tried the obvious. I simply replied and put "unsubscribe" as the subject line. They sent me a confimation email within a day stating I had been removed and I haven't received another email from them since.
Sometimes the simplest solution really is the best.
I hate to submit a "me too" post, and have resisted thus far, but this issue of repeating stories really is getting out of hand. I don't know which is worse, repeating a story from a month ago (a la the Gamecube story) or from a few days ago (a la the Xbox story). Either way it appears sloppy to the reader.
I don't like to complain about a website that provides this much content for nothing, but there really should be a system in place to prevent this from happening.
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Sort of a similar story. Once a few years ago I bought my wife a book from Amazon and have since received email from them at various points. I finally decided I no longer wanted it and looked for an easy way to "opt-out." Just as stated, you seemingly had to jump hoops if you didn't know your password (I didn't, I had ordered a long time ago). I wasn't looking forward to calling them and wasting more time, so I tried the obvious. I simply replied and put "unsubscribe" as the subject line. They sent me a confimation email within a day stating I had been removed and I haven't received another email from them since. Sometimes the simplest solution really is the best.
I hate to submit a "me too" post, and have resisted thus far, but this issue of repeating stories really is getting out of hand. I don't know which is worse, repeating a story from a month ago (a la the Gamecube story) or from a few days ago (a la the Xbox story). Either way it appears sloppy to the reader.
I don't like to complain about a website that provides this much content for nothing, but there really should be a system in place to prevent this from happening.
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