We have a winner. Ticketmaster is the Spammer

From: Michael Girard of www.quinstreet.com

Nice.  I love the subscription reminder language: ‘You are receiving this email advertisement because your email address was used for a ticket purchase…..’  So much for permission, notice, and choice.  This seems to be pretty common w/ events.  Ticketmaster does the same thing.

Can you believe this?

Here are top brands like Disney, Apple and Ticketmaster......

I promise you that I never opted in to hear from Disney.  I am pretty sure that I don't have any Disney Tunes on my Ipod (does Lindsay Lohen count?)

The only thing I've purchased from Ticketmaster were Los Lonely Boys about a year or so ago.   I may be proved wrong but given the choice I would never EVER check a box that I would want to hear from any "Partners".

If you are looking for an example of how big brands are trying to ruin email...here you go.

Comments

[Stewart Rogers]

This doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

What's worrying is the amount of times I've clicked the unsub link on Ticketmaster's and Mean Fiddler's emails, and even emailed them telling them to cease, and they still keep 'em coming.

A great example of a company using the worst e-mail marketing practises.

[Kari Chisholm]

I guess I'm OK with them sending me an email after I've made a purchase, but I've had the same experience that Stewart did:

I unsubscribed and unsubscribed and screamed and yelled and unsubscribed some more. To no avail.

I now have a special filter that auto-trashes all Ticketmaster email.

[Bob]

I have to disagree. Ticketmaster is far from a great company and it does not surprise me that they do whatever possible to monitize their customer info.