Braeda Spams

By: Mr. Wilson on January 25, 2005

I'm such a meany. Today I received an e-mail from Braeda advertising their Super Bowl catering services. I had also received an e-mail from them a few weeks ago. It annoyed me then and it annoyed me today, primarily because I know where they got my e-mail address: from my business card, which I gave them in an effort to win a free lunch. So I sent them this:

I did not agree to receive your marketing e-mails. I believe you are therefore in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Specifically, your e-mail lacks a clear and obvious way to opt out of receiving further e-mails as required by the Act. (Incidentally, responsible and reputable businesses would offer that feature even without a federal law in place to require it.) Please immediately remove me from your mailing and contact lists, electronic or otherwise. Future unsolicited commercial e-mails in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act will be reported to the Federal Trade Commission. Please see http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/canspam.htm for helpful information about the Act.

They will claim, of course, that I "opted-in" to their marketing efforts by supplying them with my business card. That's crap, of course. Nowhere near their little fishbowl did they state that my contact information could or would be used for anything other than to contact me about winning a free meal. I wonder if I'll hear back from them?

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Mr. T

January 26, 2005 at 5:29AM

Well you have clearly given them notice now that you do not want them to contact you again. Hopefully, they won’t contact you again, not so much for legal reasons but for business reasons - its never good business policy to bother your customers when they don’t want to be bothered!

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