In September 2000, Amazon announced that they considered their customer
list to be their own property and would be sold to any buyer should the
company be sold or split up or whatever.  That was the last straw,
especially since I no longer considered myself to be a customer.  I wrote
to them in both email and snail mail telling them I no longer was a
customer of theirs and to complete remove me from their database.  They
said they did.  Now, six years later, they've "magically" found my email
address and decided to email me a spam entitled "Amazon.com recommends Lord
of the Flies and more" which you will see shortly in NANAS.  Stop spamming
me for six years then hope I don't notice when you start again!  

No wonder it's so easy to Google "spamazon" in this group.

I don't know how or why, but I've never been spammed by Amazon directly,
although I've repeatedly been spammed by their "affiliates"--companies which
sell via Amazon.  Happily there is a fun way to get payback on these folks,
namely by leaving feedback on Amazon's own website, which has several ways
in which an unhappy customer can rip up an affiliate.  You can review a
product and mention the vendor uses spam, you can rate the vendor directly
and do the same, and there are now discussion threads attached to many
products where you can let your feelings be known.  One such company was so
upset by my actually quite mild objections to their spam in my vendor rating
that the president of the company repeatedly contacted me and asked for the
rating to be removed, I declined.  A few months later they sent me more
spam, so now their product review has a lengthly description of their
marketing practices as well.  With any luck that has lost them a few sales.
;^)

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I haven't bought anything through Spam-a-zon since 1998 myself.

I gave them a tagged email addres, and at the second spam, I removed
the alias from my mail server.

I, too, got somewhat snooty with Amazon. However, all I got was "we
have a right to spam you, and we will." kind of attitude.

Barnes and Noble had somewhat the same attitued for a while, but it
would seem they learned better. I don't get spam from BN.

YMMV.

Someone in sales trying to prove it's them whose
inefficient, when cost cutting kicks in ?

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Animal

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posted a big drop in profits.

Net sales grew 22 per cent to $2.14bn in the second quarter ended 30 June
2006, but operating income fell 55 per cent to $47m. Changes to accounting
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So it looks like they still consider me a "customer" even though in 2000
(and again in 2001) I told them that I was explicitly *not* a customer
of Amazon, and this time, I told them once again that I would NEVER be a
customer of theirs again due to their ignoring my preferences.

Hmmm.
I've spend several thousand dollars with Amazon, and never got any spam.
What sort of product was bought?
Perhaps an "affiliate" is responsible?

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On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:03:10 +0000 (UTC), Bruce Barnett

I seem to recall a tendancy for the spam to be sent to those who haven't
shopped at Amazon for a while, not recent customers.  Whether that's
coincidence or intentional (not to mention the possibility of
mis-recollection on my part) is another issue, of course.

Dan Poore
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About the only difference between the wingnuts on each end of the
[political] spectrum is *which* civil right(s) they think we can do
without. -- Rowan Hawthorn, in alt.callahans (2/28/05)

Never saw a spam (even before heavy filtering was started) identified as
"from Amazon" or even "in Amazon's favor".  don't remember seing any
email that was not directly related to a business transaction.
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