Stop Trying To Schedule A Call With Me
Stop Trying To Schedule A Call With Me
Stop Trying To Schedule A Call With Me - The harassment by SaaS
The description of the demo is very specific and oddly exactly what I experienced about a month ago when my company was looking for a new Application Lifecycle Management tool. It's uncanny.
What I hate the most is that in order to know the pricing I have to watch a 2 hours demo, and at that point I already know that it's unaffordable because they're starting to do calculations "this is how much you're going to save".
Saw a 100% offline quoting tool that, they wanted $1000 per month because "you and your team will save 200 hours per month so this tool pays back in less than 2 weeks"
- It's offline
- We have to pay for the server
- It requires a month of training and data fitting (at our expense)
- Doesn't require any additional update and once set can be left like that for decades
Why the hell it's a subscription????
This is now what spammers are doing. I've got about 50 different "companies" offering their services complete with follow up, meeting bookings, reminders and encouragement to sign up now, then come the threats or request for acknowledgement, then they change their email address and start from the top.
Come to think about it, it's probably more like 100 different attempts, each with their own repeating thread.
99% automatically land in my spam folder, but it's just ludicrous. It also makes actual commerce via email pretty much impossible.
I've had offers for lead generation, appointment setting, transcript services, SEO, website redesigns, app development, social media marketing and management, investment opportunities, offers for speaking engagements, conference sponsorships, purchasing and product offers, the list is endless.
I always wonder if those actually work
"We help you find real verified customers 100% guaranteed" - says the ones that mass mailed a honeypot address that's visible only to bots (so it's not real, not verified and lands directly in spam dragging down your email domain reputation)
Lead gen spam in particular is the bane of my existence for the past year. I get 4-5 per day. If you're so good at getting qualified leads for others, why are you spamming random recipients for yourself?
Because you're one of their leads, and you too could cold call people from a list if you pay now!
Ugh, I'm getting a bunch right now that are like "we can help with SEO" and "let us fix your codebase" and "we can help with payroll."
I'm a design engineer for plastic injection molded parts, exactly none of those are anywhere near what I handle, I wouldn't even know who to direct them to if I had any interest in directing them anywhere, stop fucking emailing me.
„They pay me so they don’t have to talk to you“
Awesome!
This is why I love EU's GDPR. Reply to their spam with an official GDPR request to be removed from their records.
It doesn't work all the time. But it works well enough.