No need to feel bad about it.
Marketers know that a lot of people immediately unsubscribe but they also know not everybody will. They still turn a profit after the discount and also just made a sale!
Additionally, I wouldn't be surprised if some merchants pass along/sell your email address, since now its in their system.
Also: companies will fuck you over any chance they get. You're breaking no laws. Use every tactic you can to claw back any of your hard earned money you can.
Also: don't use your real details to subscribe. It is best to have a burner spam email address, a burner prepaid sim card and use a made up address.
Also, just to push a point, don't fret over if it is illegal or not. Just be sure you can safely not get caught. Otherwise, all is fair because, trust me, the companies operate on that same logic. They will do all manner of illegal methods to profit off of the working class because they know they can get away with it. So we should be entirely willing to do the same.
Just to reinforce your point. Many business schools teach that making money is more important than abiding by the law, using Carroll's pyramid of corporate social responsibility.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_social_responsibility#Definition
I really wanna be able to go about my life and not feel like I'm in hiding or witness protection or something of the like. It's so demoralizing that it's coming down to having fake backups for your fake backups.
With facial recognition taking off youll need full disguises to get groceries at a reasonable price soon
Exactly all of this. Don't feel bad about the shitty adversarial process the greedy fucks put you through. They started it and god damn it they deserve to be buried for it.
Tha's why I give gibberish emails whenever I can
In 99% of online purchases you have to give them your email either way, so it doesn't really matter if you additionally sub to their newsletter.
If they can charge 15% less for subscription, that means they are overcharging you 15% all the time.
That's not strictly true. The discount could be a loss to get a customer that will be more profitable later
If you forget to cancel, the re-order is at full price. They are betting that you will forget or that you will be willing to pay full price to keep getting it.
Even if you unsubscribe, you're still a metric for "number of people who subscribed"; so every time you repurchase and sign back up, you just keep adding to their metrics which they will utilize to boost their stock values.
Either way, the house always wins.
Say a thank you to the FTC that there is a one click unsubscribe. Your nanny state libtards made that possible. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/10/federal-trade-commission-announces-final-click-cancel-rule-making-it-easier-consumers-end-recurring
Didn't the Republicans immediately repeal that when they came to power?
Nope, but they stripped the department down and put in a stooge as chair/commissioner. A shame since the last chair was smart and motivated, Lina Khan.
They got your $85 and your data. Worth the 15% by far.
Jokes on you, your email will never be deleted and has already been added to 1000 marketing dbs.
I set a rule to put every email with the 'usubscibe' word in it straight to junk. They can all rot in the jail together.
Subscribe and save is just the original product price before they marked it up
Just use a disposable email. There's no guarantee that the company didn't delete/ unsubscribe your email
Use catch-all emails so if someone shares you know who
"Dude. Dude. We not only got your personal data, we also got a sale which was, let's be honest, still plenty overpriced, just a little less so now. Yea, you 'got' us..."
They still keep the record of all the information you provided, likely including email, name, what you purchased, with what payment method, and more.
They will be able to make statistical inferences of your socioeconomic status variables and can and will resell that data to others who will absolutely not give a shit about your unsubscribe status. In the end it may be worth the 15% off for her, but it is definitely not scamming them by unsubscribing.
Unrealistic. They hide that unsubscribe button or make it not functional.
Also hijack your back button as punishment.
No offending supply side jesus
10minute mail! I'll never get your marketing emails, and I'm a new customer every time!!!
I'm fucking tired of all these websites making you give your email, and hunt for a coupon and a sale to buy something while Amazon has the same item for the same "discounted" price from the get go, as much as I hate supporting Amazon, these other companies don't make it any easier to buy from them, and on top of that their orders take 6-10 days to deliver and many times require a minimum dollar amount before free delivery kicks in, while Amazon can deliver it in 2 days for free.
Yeah I tend to avoid Amazon and only extremely rarely do I buy from them. I mostly buy on eBay and direct from the company websites nowadays
Remember to use an alias for your email for this kind of shit.
I go with the 6 month (longest interval offered) subscription, then when I get the email reminding me that XYZ is about to be re-ordered, I see whether I actually need/want more of it. If not, I 'skip' that order (which it seems you can do as often as you want) while the subscription/discount is maintained, and if I do, I let it get ordered, also maintaining the discount.
End result's worst-case scenario is that I get bugged twice a year about some items, pretty minor cost for 15% off.
I never thought that it could immediately be cancelled. Gonna use it from now!
Me setting a reminder for the day before the free trial bills me for the next 12 months
I set to 2 days before, just to play safe
Same lol
I just use temporary emails when I can.
> Unsub, laugh maniacally
> See new opportunity to subscribe
> Cannot get "new subscription" bonus because they got enough data to tell it's you again
> surprised_pikachu_face.jpg
Also they sold your data to the next broker.
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