The Motley Fool Won’t Leave Me ALONE!
Posted by Cap in Customer Service |
Seriously.
If anyone has ever signed up for a free account at Fool.com, or a trial account to access their community discussion board – you’ll know what I’m talking about.
When I first signed up, I got weekly newsletter email, which is pretty standard… but during the course of the trial period, I increasingly get more and more emails about the crazy benefits of the discussion board. Who knew after the 30 day trial period, I’ll get even more emails!
Subject: We want you back!
Imagine that, times infinity.
The contents at Fool.com are decent enough, but they need to tone down on their opt-in spam. I just got another email today, telling me they want me back—six months later!
It’s like a crazy ex-boyfriend that won’t leave you alone.
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March 6th, 2006 at 2:02 pm
LOL. I have that times the 4 e-mails that I used to sign up for separate trials. Shhh. They’re watching us.
March 6th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
tell me about it, each of my email box is spammed to shred. I mean, just one.
March 6th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
I can’t stand the Motley Fool. Everytime you read an article, it’s like an infomercial with random links strewn in for free trial offers to this and that. Pain in the ass I tell you.
March 6th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
Yeah, they send a whole bunch of email. I wonder who approved that one?
Dave
March 6th, 2006 at 5:28 pm
Uggh! They are one of the worse offenders of ‘opt-in’ email. But I found out a way around it…. shhhh.
March 6th, 2006 at 10:54 pm
they are just one of the many email stalkers i have. unfortunately, my email account has many crazy ex-boyfriends.
March 7th, 2006 at 12:37 am
heh – I actually have to thank fool.com – with our old site they came after us with a copyright infringement letter. Rather than fight it and worry about it (they really didn’t have a case), we settled with them and got a better domain that turned into savingadvice. Don’t think we’d be near where we are today had they not forced us to change names (although starting over was a royal pain)
March 7th, 2006 at 8:25 pm
I couldn’t agree more. I get the same we want you back spam, and all of their articles plug their newsletters. I stopped visiting the site and just yesterday received some snail mail propaganda touting their stock picking prowess. I’m putting a restraining order on these Fools.
March 7th, 2006 at 8:49 pm
You can almost always use bugmenot.com pick up a login and password to sites like the fool… You never need to see the e-mail again.
March 8th, 2006 at 6:50 am
yeah sites like bugmenot.com are pretty darn handy.
guess I’m not the only one they’re annoying to death.
March 8th, 2006 at 9:56 am
I visit that site from time to time, I just put in a bogus email address like osijdojsdf@osidfjojf.com. It’s annoying to get those emails.
March 11th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
It took me about thirty seconds to get tired of the dunce caps–I mean, elf hats–these guys wear. Wish I could get rid of the spam that quickly!
March 14th, 2006 at 4:08 pm
Yep, every day, more crap from the Motley Fool. Who does their marketing? Don’t they understand that pissing me off with spam doesn’t make me want to visit the site? And when I have visited (over a year ago now), I couldn’t tell the content from the crap because both are trying to sell me something. Argh!!
March 23rd, 2006 at 3:51 am
I’d recommend using one of the following sites when signing up for anything that requires your email address.
http://www.spambox.info
http://www.mailinator.com
http://www.dodgeit.com
March 25th, 2006 at 11:30 am
Ten years ago, when I was looking for investment advice for my son’s college savings, the Motley Fool was terrific. Lots of free advice, the discussion boards were manageable, and the Fools pretty much spelled out everything they were doing with each of their porfolios.
When I went back recently, I was surprised and disappointed that I had to pay for much of the advice I’d had for free earlier. It’s turned into a spammy sales site. I’m getting better information from Yahoo Finance and Investopedia.
April 1st, 2006 at 2:16 am
Great analogy!
November 19th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Worse yet, they SELL their e-mail lists. When I signed up back int he day, I used an e-mail alias just for that site. Within a month, I was getting buried in spam to that address.
MF sucks… PERIOD!!!