When SPAM talks back
I am just now getting to checking the blog. And to my surprise what should I find, but this lovely screed by Ken Sudall:
“Just had a very rude encounter with Todd Heywood, the person – not the writer and now understand his bias, confusion and lack of compassion for any cause but his own.”
I decided rather than approve the comment, I would write a blog about it. Mr. Sudall, you see, thinks that you should be his friend on Facebook so he can try to sell you products. That is spam. but rather than accept a simple decline of his request to be a friend, so he can sell me crap, he decided to attempt to convince me I needed to be his friend so he could sell me his crap. His reasoning? Many of my friends had used his services, why shouldn’t I?
I responded:
Ken, I don’t care who you have done business with. I have not done business with you, and I m not going to “endorse” your business without having done so. Do you get it? You are spamming people. It’s inappropriate.
And his response on Facebook to this? After apologizing and saying he could not figure out how to send an email to a social media marketing person I referred him to, he then wrote:
Todd, we have a windshield application called Aquapel – go to aquapel users on facebook and check it out. I would like to offer you a free application, shake your hand and show you around.
Well to begin with, I have no need of his services. Secondly, adding him is an endorsement of his product/service. Since I have not used his produce or service. I am not willing to endorse it. Seems pretty logical to me.
Look, I get it. The guy is trying to make money in a tight economy and needs to market himself. Right on, go for it! Just don’t expect it to happen on my Facebook, or my blog. And when you harass some one to the point of going to their personal blog to post a comment, you have proven your customer service and your company are something NO ONE should work with.
For the record, Mr. Sudall, here is how spam is defined on Wikipedia:
E-mail spam, also known as junk e-mail, is a subset of spam that involves nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by e-mail. A common synonym for spam is unsolicited bulk e-mail (UBE). Definitions of spam usually include the aspects that email is unsolicited and sent in bulk.[1][2][3][4][5]“UCE” refers specifically to unsolicited commercial e-mail.
In the future it might be wise to stop spamming others. Just saying…
I was contemplating putting the name of his company and his email address– which is an AOL account, if that indicates this man’s internet capacity and professionalism — but I decided that was simply inappropriate.
