Tea Spammer

Bastards. 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!!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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