Seems as though I can no longer visit a site for info, like price or size specs ect without them sending a follow up email to "remind" me of what I was looking at.
Getting to be a real pain in the ass!

Did you have to give them your email address to get into the site?

If it's not a direct email (even without having given them the email address), then it is the incessant pop-ups and side-bar advertisements from said company.

Fookin parasites!

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Originally posted by gjgalligan:
Seems as though I can no longer visit a site for info, like price or size specs ect without them sending a follow up email to "remind" me of what I was looking at.
Getting to be a real pain in the ass!

Home Depot is the worst. If I click something in their e-mail then I get a 2nd e-mail about what I viewed. If I'm already logged in, then I also get an e-mail about what I viewed.

Home Depot has tens of thousands of SKUs that are not unique to them (i.e. the price and customer experience are the differentiator) and I bought the identically priced last item from Amazon just because they had the decency not to flood my e-mail inbox.

I started getting them in Gmail, Google must be selling your/my info to web sites that we visit

Yup. Cruise lines have been hitting me with emails and sidebar ads after a casual search for cruises in a particular region. This morning PartZilla sent me an email moments after I closed a browser window looking at motorcycle parts.

Partzilla requires logging in before seeing their price.

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Originally posted by SpinZone:
Did you have to give them your email address to get into the site?

Nope

Fell asleep with FB open on my phone last night, dreamed I bought a new Harley, and when I woke up there it was on FB, and emails from HD, and a call from the dealer....

How'd that happen

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Did you have to give them your email address to get into the site?

The situation the OP describes has happened to me a couple of times. One was from Beretta after I visited the Benelli site, the other from Brownells after visiting their site. I did not give either of them any email address.

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Similar here looking at truck parts. I browsed a site for selection and prices. I didn’t enter any info or put anything in cart. The emails have started to come in every few days apart. I have purchased from them a few years ago. Somehow some provider is passing along at the very least my email.

I’ve never had that problem.

But I’m the guy whose alkaline batteries never leak.

Unsubscribe from them. Those can be considered "transactional" emails, meaning that because you theoretically interacted with them in some capacity they can email you for limited purposes without an express opt in. But if you unsubscribe, that's a hard opt out.

Don't fall for the bonus requirement when now signing up for % off. They tell you to fill out your e-mail to receive 10/15/20% off. I have an e-mail I created for just such purpose many years ago. However, now, after you enter your e-mail, it's followed with "one more step, add your cell phone number". No thanks. Apache 7 out!!!

In some cases, if you visit a sit, and click on any "form" that "populates" the fields, your information may be "harvested" at that point, even if you simply close the window/tab.

All of this occurs in the backend, before you can do anything about is.

This is why so many are confused as to how they get emails or content "pushed" into their browsing and other interactions.

There is serious big money spent on exploiting you.

I have 35 years of this experience.

A person has to be smarter than the machine that more than 2 billion people are "feeding/training" 24x7.


"You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"

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Originally posted by bigwagon:
Unsubscribe from them.
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In many (most?) cases, “unsubscribe” informs the perps that you read their phishing email. Then you’re on their target list.