Honda-SOHC
Other Stuff => Misc / Open => Topic started by: SteveD CB500K0 on February 18, 2011, 08:54:21 AM
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I assume that I'm not the only one to get an email from DSS today, asking me to enter a competition.
A good cheap way to validate their email lists...
My issue is with the list of options for where you heard of them:
- Internet
- Press
- Friend
- Dealer
- Honda UK
There's not box for "SOHC4 Forum" :'(
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What is DSS?
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David Silver Spares.
Sorry, slipped into the vernacular there for a minute :-X
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Many apologies Steve, I should have known that.
Perhaps they should offer us special prices as we attract business for them.
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Magazines have been doing this for years. They suggest that they have a motorbike to give away in a competition, usually something that nobody wants to buy. They ask for your email address/your home number/your mobile number. They then bombard you with communications to get you to buy a subscription to their magazine, with the bike staying as part of the magnet to get more people to give away their details. Eventually the bike is given away to someone who does not really want it & sells it for whatever they can get for it.
Bridgestone did this with a tyre gauge tool offer recently. When it didn't arrive for ages I contacted them demanding that they remove my details from their database as it appeared that they had garnered my information under false pretence. I received my tool not long afterwards, but I have heard nothing from them since.
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Everyone is required by law nowadays to offer an "unsubscribe" option. It's not normally too visible but is always there.
I always use it.
Also beware of sites that require you to uncheck the option box. Most people don't.
Software upgrades are the worst. How many times have I forgotten to uncheck the "download Yahoo toolbar" or "Free Antivirus Check" boxes? Bastards!
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Tis true, I always look for the tick boxes.