A Bad Choice of Title
Dear "Daren Downs" and "Patrick Ventura":
Mr. Downs, when attempting to sell or promote a product, it is best advisable to present your product in a manner agreeable with the largest number of people in your intended audience. Your choice of the e-mail medium means that the subject line of your advertisement is of critical importance. In this day and age of rampant unsolicited bulk electronic spam, I know I speak for others when I say I manually filter my inbox largely according to the subject line of each e-mail.
So when I chanced upon your e-mail with the subject line, "THis will not involve conception of a child," you lost me as a customer.
This is not because I was offended by the suggestion that I am worried about fathering children. Nor did you lose my business because I was offended by the suggestion that you assumed I have been presented with offers to concieve with children. I took no offense in that manner.
No, what permanently lost me as a potential customer was the very dumbshit idea of someone picking that title in the first place. I spent the first few seconds internally amused at the stark stupidity of some stranger sending me an e-mail with that title. I spent the next few seconds annoyed with the miscapitalization. And I spent a few more seconds composing this post in response.
Furthermore, the text of the e-mail's body doesn't inspire me to believe you or whomever you work for has any concept of decent and effective marketing.
Attenzione!!Materiale pornografico. La verit�FFFFE1 su Paris Hilton e Rick Salomon!
Imparate anche l'inglese
Gratisxxxxxx!
click here
http://adweawen.biz/ph/index_mailer.html [please don't visit the link; they don't need the encouragement]rvrxdrc iukja mohvdyiczffqe aj fb
gibss i gunbdsvuyusp
You spammers are getting lamer and lamer with each day.
Mr. Ventura, your message was a little bit better. The subject line of, "I'm sorry if you think this message is rude" actually worked on me, in the sense I thought it was a personal message written out to me for direct communicative interaction on some issue I may have commented upon.
I wasn't that surprised, however, when I discovered
Wank off while watching Paris Hilton's boyfriend
sucking on her tits and nipples.click here
http://adweawen.biz/ph/index_mailer.html [again, please don't visit the link]bxhhhoeogvdo skae f jj syi liyobe
in the e-mail proper.
Tsk tsk.
I've seen the Paris Hilton video. It ain't that great.
UPDATE 10/4/2004 8:23am
Beware of shock spam advertising.
UPDATED 7/23/2008 10:23am
More spammy-ness here.
Comments
My brother told me the same thing. He said he didn't find anything spectacular about the Paris Hilton tape. Personally, I hope our good friend Matt gets caught on tape having sex with a cat so I can work on that bestiality-oriented Cat in the Hat spoof.
Posted by: Erik | December 8, 2003 05:55 AM
paris es lo mejor
Posted by: kenneth | April 7, 2006 04:06 PM