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[Doctor Phibes]

I'd happily opt out of father's day emails.

In fact, the list of email topics had happily opt out of is quite extraordinarily long.

I get $100 for Father's Day. No other celebration is necessary.

[Loki]

Mother’s Day contributes 23 billion to the economy and Fathers Day 16 billion. They were probably invented as retailer bonanzas.

I don’t mind retailers sitting quietly in pain as they dare not cross our cultural overlords.

[Horace]

@aqua-letifer said in Etsy email:

@Mark Call me cynical, but follow the money. This wasn't a messaging decision, but a financial one.

How does that email contribute to their bottom line? Does Etsy really drive people away with the fathers' day emails, or did they feel pressured to stop sending them because they received negative feedback from culture warriors virtuously supporting the fatherless?

[Aqua Letifer]

@horace said in Etsy email:

@aqua-letifer said in Etsy email:

@Mark Call me cynical, but follow the money. This wasn't a messaging decision, but a financial one.

How does that email contribute to their bottom line? Does Etsy really drive people away with the fathers' day emails, or did they feel pressured to stop sending them because they received negative feedback from culture warriors virtuously supporting the fatherless?

Could very well be they hit the Mother's Day messaging too hard, had an uptick in opt-outs, and want to prevent that with the next spending holiday.

Obviously I don't know for sure but back in the long ago, other companies have done exactly that, and paid me to send that messaging out. So it or something like it are possibilities.

[Loki]

Feels like 1984 is here, just not how we expected.

[Doctor Phibes]

Guy, it's freaking spam. They're saying you can opt out!

Stop complaining!

[Loki]

@doctor-phibes said in Etsy email:

Guy, it's freaking spam. They're saying you can opt out!

Stop complaining!

I didn’t realize I needed a reminder to optionally opt out, LOL.

[Doctor Phibes]

I'm always deeply suspicious of anything that says you can opt out, because by doing so you're confirming your existence to them.

[Aqua Letifer]

@doctor-phibes said in Etsy email:

Guy, it's freaking spam. They're saying you can opt out!

Stop complaining!

I got the same weird vibe as Mark, for some reason.

[brenda]

Etsy sent me those emails for both Mother's Day and Father's Day. I opted out of both.

Some people don't want to get those emails, and I'm one of those people. I wish more retailers would offer the opt out feature. Etsy is trying to be nice, and I appreciate it.