Spam - Don't you hate it? We all get more than we could possibly read.
This week I think I opted in to receive more spam email that I bargained for.
It all started with an email from a group I subscribed to called Stompernet. They are a group of internet marketers out of Atlanta, GA who seem to have some good free information they provide in order to encourage you to subscribe to what I thought at the time was a high ticket item. If I remember correctly the guys at Stompernet charge around $800 for a subscription to their secrets to internet wealth.
Then they send me an email about an associate of theirs named Eben Pagan - the Guru MasterMind. The email was an invitation to listen to an exciting online conversation with one of their friends (read that as someone "Eben Pagan - the Guru MasterMind" who is paying them "Stompernet" a big slice of sales revenue to tap into their email list).
I liked what the guys at Stompernet had to say, so I opted in to receive email from Eben Pagan - the Guru Mastermind. Holly crap what a mistake.
How many emails do you think I got a day from this guy Eben Pagan the guru Mastermind?
1 a day?
NO
2 a day?
NO
3 a day?
NO
4 a day?
Close but NO!
Yesterday I received 5 different emails from Eben Pagan - the Guru Mastermind!
OK.. I know what you are thinking.. if I opted in to receive emails from Eben Pagan - the Guru Mastermind why am I now saying it's spam?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages."
Now your thinking "Wait a minute - didn't you say you opted in to receive his emails?"
Your right I did opt in to receive emails from Eben Pagan - the Guru Mastermind.
The problem is the trick he uses for opting out.
At the the end of Eben Pagan - the Guru Mastermind's email messages is this line.
If you wish to unsubscribe, please send mail to: "Guru MasterMind Inc."
3960 Howard Hughes Pkwy, 5th Floor Las Vegas, NV 89109
I think that this lack of an opt out link makes Eben Pagan - the Guru Mastermind's email messages spam or Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE) - and so do most internet service providers.
To be fair some of his emails did have an opt out link - I used it and the emails keep coming!
Before I decided I did not want to receive more email from this guy I actually took the time to review his information.
If I thought the Stopmernet guys were proud of their product at around $800. I have to say that Eben Pagan - the Guru Mastermind has priced his information like he is selling the secret to the second coming.
From what I can gather his basic price is about $6,000 (yup 6K) and the high end service is about $9,000.
On his information site I found broken links - for $6k to $9k everything better work.
Most of the information I saw was nothing new.. it's all available for free with some searching.
There is a whole lot of content on his free site but I though that the substance was lacking.
If you going to charge me $6k to $8k for something it better be a very big WOW!
So I guess the moral to the story is be careful what you ask for... It was lot easier opting in than it has been trying to opt out.
***I just got another email from Eben Pagan - the Guru Mastermind as I was writing this.
Message to Eben Pagan - the Guru Mastermind - please stop!
