I bought something from Imperial Tea and now they are spamming me.
--
Douglas

*******s. Well, my plight is that one of my girlfriends and I broke up this
last weekend and she won't give me back the tea I left at her house!!!!

Where's Judge Judy!!



"Fred" > wrote in message
...
> I bought something from Imperial Tea and now they are spamming me.
> --
> Douglas

If you are referring to the E-mail they sent out this morning...unsubscribe
from it if you don't want it. If you bought something from them, you opted
in. If you don't like it...try reading the privacy policy next time before
you give your E-mail to someone.

Melinda

--
"The country has entered an era in which
questions are not asked, for questions are
daughters of disquiet or arrogance, both
fruits of temptation and the food of sacrilege." Djaout
"Fred" > wrote in message
...
>I bought something from Imperial Tea and now they are spamming me.
> --
> Douglas

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:26:21 -0800, "Melinda" >
wrote:

>If you don't like it...try reading the privacy policy next time before
>you give your E-mail to someone.

Try opening an online account without giving an email address. Thanks
for the advice.

On Tuesday 08 March 2005 16:48, Douglas <*@*.*>
>) wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:26:21 -0800, "Melinda" >
> wrote:
>
>>If you don't like it...try reading the privacy policy next time before
>>you give your E-mail to someone.

Privacy policies may be good and they may be bad. More importantly, they
can be ignored and/or changed at any time. Still, a bad so-called privacy
policy tells you that the vendor cannot be trusted.

> Try opening an online account without giving an email address.

Try

http://sneakemail.com

a forwarding service who allows you to create 'disposable' email addresses.
If you start getting spammed, you simply delete the email address and
Sneakemail bounces the messages. You also know where the spammer obtained
the email address.

> Thanks for the advice.

Note: The definition of spam is "unsolicited bulk email"; if you didn't
solicit the email, it's spam. If you didn't authorize the vendor to use
your email address for distribution, promotions, newsletters, advertising,
third-party use, etc., and they used it anyway, they're spammers.

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:07:46 -0700
Jules Dubois > wrote:

> On Tuesday 08 March 2005 16:48, Douglas <*@*.*>
> >) wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:26:21 -0800, "Melinda" >
> > wrote:
> >
> >>If you don't like it...try reading the privacy policy next time before
> >>you give your E-mail to someone.
>
> Privacy policies may be good and they may be bad. More importantly, they
> can be ignored and/or changed at any time. Still, a bad so-called
> privacy policy tells you that the vendor cannot be trusted.


I don't have personal knowledge of imperial tea's order form, but
vendors that don't have a conspicuous opt-out checkbox quickly find their
way into my list of vendors of last resort.

You can argue the validity and genuine goodness of the occasional email
from a vendor, it's just the way i feel.

'course, if the checkbox was there and you just didn't think about it,
well, it's your own dumb fault.

The reason I sound so harsh is that it is getting more and more that
businesses are putting stuff in fine print (like the EULA, legalese on car
commercials, and the little "change in policy" papers you get from your
credit card companies on a semi-annual basis that tell you you have to
accept arbitration instead of a court hearing) and essentially it is the
consumer who is responsible for reading and accepting or not accepting the
terms. People in general have got to get more savy. If you don't like the
terms by all means don't do business with the company, but do please read
the agreements because the large companies are putting stuff in there you
wouldn't believe. And well, also I am getting more and more impatient with
people in general who make bad decisions and then whine about it when their
decision turns around and bites them and everybody else too..that last is
not directed at anyone here though. 'Kay, I'm done...


Melinda

--
"The country has entered an era in which
questions are not asked, for questions are
daughters of disquiet or arrogance, both
fruits of temptation and the food of sacrilege." Djaout
"Eric Jorgensen" > wrote in message
news:20050309142004.2febaf07@wafer...
> On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:07:46 -0700
> Jules Dubois > wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 08 March 2005 16:48, Douglas <*@*.*>
>> >) wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:26:21 -0800, "Melinda" >
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >>If you don't like it...try reading the privacy policy next time before
>> >>you give your E-mail to someone.
>>
>> Privacy policies may be good and they may be bad. More importantly, they
>> can be ignored and/or changed at any time. Still, a bad so-called
>> privacy policy tells you that the vendor cannot be trusted.
>
>
> I don't have personal knowledge of imperial tea's order form, but
> vendors that don't have a conspicuous opt-out checkbox quickly find their
> way into my list of vendors of last resort.
>
> You can argue the validity and genuine goodness of the occasional email
> from a vendor, it's just the way i feel.
>
> 'course, if the checkbox was there and you just didn't think about it,
> well, it's your own dumb fault.

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 17:21:27 -0800
"Melinda" > wrote:

> The reason I sound so harsh is that it is getting more and more that
> businesses are putting stuff in fine print (like the EULA, legalese on
> car commercials, and the little "change in policy" papers you get from
> your credit card companies on a semi-annual basis that tell you you have
> to accept arbitration instead of a court hearing) and essentially it is


In most states this isn't legally binding - it's rather impossible to
give up your right to a civil suit. In some states it's explicitly
nullified by law. Usually you have to put up with the sham of arbitration
before you go ahead and sue, though, as a good faith effort.


> the consumer who is responsible for reading and accepting or not
> accepting the terms. People in general have got to get more savy. If you
> don't like the terms by all means don't do business with the company,
> but do please read the agreements because the large companies are
> putting stuff in there you wouldn't believe. And well, also I am getting
> more and more impatient with people in general who make bad decisions
> and then whine about it when their decision turns around and bites them
> and everybody else too..that last is not directed at anyone here though.
> 'Kay, I'm done...


Click-through agreements are increasingly hard to defend in court.
Doesn't mean they aren't getting more insidious, though.

The real problem is the concept of law-by-contract as backed up by force
of litigation. But that's another newsgroup.

I pick my battles and my battle is crass commercialism. I vote with my
wallet wherever possible.

Since I purchase almost all my teas from Imperial Court I want to say
thanks for saving me a few bucks.I didn't get any "Spam" from them so I
would have missed out on the sale.

JP