Have you ever bought any SPAM'er products?

[TheAnvil 0]

SPAM came up in a thread and I was just wondering. I NEVER buy ANY product advertised in SPAM. Anyone know what their rate of response is?

Vinny the Anvil
Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL
JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

[bmcd308 0]

I would never. I hate them.

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[turtlespeed 226]

Oh yeah, I love spam...Makes a good sandwich when you are a poor student, two slices of bread and a slice of spam, grilled up and peppered w/ tobasco sauce -

Seriously, I did buy one thing, a cell phone service, wasn't too bad, and it was only a six month service deal. Worked out for me.

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[prepheckt 0]

SPAMers should burn in hell

"Dancing Argentine Tango is like doing calculus with your feet."
-9 toes

[PhillyKev 0]

It's very very low, but so is the cost of sending email. It only takes a small percentage of dupes to provide them with enough income to make it worth their while.

[prepheckt 0]

I remember reading it's like 0.015 percent response rate, or something like that.

"Dancing Argentine Tango is like doing calculus with your feet."
-9 toes

[TheAnvil 0]

I wish it were 0.00000000000000000001 x 10^-1000000 %

or zero % even, better still. Then they would stop.

Vinny the Anvil
Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL
JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

[pilotdave 0]

Spam makes up something like 75% of all email. It's time to find out where it's coming from and kick some ass. I started doing a little research into who spams. I was surprised that the vast majority originates from inside the US. I really wonder if a large percentage of spam comes from only a few large sources. I'd love to see those companies burn to the ground.

Dave

[champu 1]

spam just crossed over the halfway point of all e-mail sent this summer, not sure where it's at now

advertisers have three different rates that gear the success of e-mails they send, open%, click through%, and conversion%

for "targeted e-mail marketing" (think: legitimate spam that has a working unsubscribe feature) an open% of 40%, a click through of around 5-10%, and a conversion of 1% are all pretty good.

for all out spam where companies will harvest e-mail addresses from anywhere they can, hijack smtp servers to send e-mail, and forge headers to get past filters (think: "use the power of herbs by coming to africa and find out anything about anyone while increasing your penis size") the click-through and conversion rates are on the order of 1:1,000,000 ... and they can still do this profitably

/edited to clarify a couple things

[TheAnvil 0]

Where do you get these #'s dude?

Vinny the Anvil
Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL
JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

[ralu 0]

The only thing that comes to my mind is hate, so much hate...
ralu

what would be a woman without her dreams....