Airgun Retailers Spamming

There are many that do the "Noticed that you were looking." emails. I normally unsubscribe and be done with it.

mike

I'm sorry to break the bad news, but everything you do online is tracked by multiple parties. Most of them just don't tell you about it explicitly like that. You can't really do anything about it without severely hurting functionality, so just do what @Revoman says and unsubscribe.

This type of aggressive marketing has been going on for years now?

Don't visit or better yet, block them?

BBGunn said:

First off, the majority of airgun retailers don't spam their customers..., but a few do!

There is one airgun retailer in particular that sends it's customers an email every time the customer browses the website. It's just 'creepy' when you get an email that says the retailer's site noticed you were browsing a particular item and wants you to come back and reconsider the purchase! Totally inappropriate! And of course, the same reatiler sends numerous spam mails each and every day! Really?

I don't remember how many times I've signed-up for emails from this retailer and then been so offended by their marketing scheme (spamming) that I cancel receiving those emails from them! I'm done, no more signing back up with that outfit!

Anyone else feel like I do about airgun retailers spamming?

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Crosman spams the heck out of me. That's OK, it's all about to be Chinese trash with the gamo merger.

6gun said:

Crosman spams the heck out of me. That's OK, it's all about to be Chinese trash with the gamo merger.

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Why say things like this that are not true. The Gamo Urban and Coyote are made by BSA in the UK. The new Marauder G3 is to be made in Bloomfield with a BSA hammer forged barrel. If selling a bunch of China junk break open spring guns to Walmart and Bass Pro NASCAR dads provides sufficient monies to spend some on a few quality higher end products, I am for it. I am pretty sure some of their break open guns are Spain. Seems like folks gobble up China made Gauntlets, Avengers, Zelos, Notos .

Read the fine print in the terms that you agreed to, if you did agree to them. Most folks just click "yeah, yeah, I agree.. just gimme what I want".

The worst is when I look up the meat product SPAM & then get spammed by SPAM

Most browsers offer protection from that sort of thing. You just have to choose to use it.

Both Brave and Firefox do. Brave will even remove the ads from youtube. Who knew?

Plugging your info into a vendor's web-site is like handing your phone number to an auto warranty marketing corporation.

Cheers,

J~

Just a little technical insight from my experience on the other side.
FCC law requires website businesses to have customers approve getting emails. This went into effect beginning of this year.
Any email blast company (that’s what I call it lol) that a business uses now can not automatically start sending emails created by the business without consent. The consent is in a form of a checkbox or signing up on your own.
New customers who are not signed up to Airgun Revisions subscription will not get emails for discounts, products back in stock, and new products. Or something substantial going on. We don’t like getting spam so why should we do that to our customers kind of mentality. But we do think customer should be aware of more important things like new products and discounts, or something new that’s happening at AGR. This is what you’re signing up for and it shouldn’t be anything more than that. How they are getting away with the cart thing I couldn’t tell you. Loopholes I would imagine.

I just delete the ones I don't like, but I do like reading about new stuff and sale items.

I hate the pop ups on just about every single retailers site. Never talked to anyone that did either. Puzzling why they do it. Must work even though most are annoyed by it.

3Crows said:

Why say things like this that are not true. The Gamo Urban and Coyote are made by BSA in the UK. The new Marauder G3 is to be made in Bloomfield with a BSA hammer forged barrel. If selling a bunch of China junk break open spring guns to Walmart and Bass Pro NASCAR dads provides sufficient monies to spend some on a few quality higher end products, I am for it. I am pretty sure some of their break open guns are Spain. Seems like folks gobble up China made Gauntlets, Avengers, Zelos, Notos .

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I don't care about gamo or any of their offerings when they're in the process of ruining my crosman nostalgia. Yeah people act like poors and want cheap stuff in a HOBBY. TBF I won't buy budget friendly guns made in Spain either from my powder burner experiences.

Crosman spams me about as bad as jegs does.

Airgun-Revisions said:

Just a little technical insight from my experience on the other side.
FCC law requires website businesses to have customers approve getting emails. This went into effect beginning of this year.
Any email blast company (that’s what I call it lol) that a business uses now can not automatically start sending emails created by the business without consent. The consent is in a form of a checkbox or signing up on your own.
New customers who are not signed up to Airgun Revisions subscription will not get emails for discounts, products back in stock, and new products. Or something substantial going on. We don’t like getting spam so why should we do that to our customers kind of mentality. But we do think customer should be aware of more important things like new products and discounts, or something new that’s happening at AGR. This is what you’re signing up for and it shouldn’t be anything more than that. How they are getting away with the cart thing I couldn’t tell you. Loopholes I would imagine.

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I wouldn't be upset seeing your stuff 20 cal the world.

Shoot me a dm if you guys sell a bolt, mags and barrels as a secret menu option to do that to my 25 mrod 1.0 to save a bunch of time . Please.

BBGunn said:

First off, the majority of airgun retailers don't spam their customers..., but a few do!

There is one airgun retailer in particular that sends it's customers an email every time the customer browses the website. It's just 'creepy' when you get an email that says the retailer's site noticed you were browsing a particular item and wants you to come back and reconsider the purchase! Totally inappropriate! And of course, the same reatiler sends numerous spam mails each and every day! Really?

I don't remember how many times I've signed-up for emails from this retailer and then been so offended by their marketing scheme (spamming) that I cancel receiving those emails from them! I'm done, no more signing back up with that outfit!

Anyone else feel like I do about airgun retailers spamming?

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Use your email spam blocker. This way you can retrieve filtered mail that may contain coupons.

Treefrog said:

Most browsers offer protection from that sort of thing. You just have to choose to use it.

Both Brave and Firefox do. Brave will even remove the ads from youtube. Who knew?

Plugging your info into a vendor's web-site is like handing your phone number to an auto warranty marketing corporation.

Cheers,

J~

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Never heard of Brave, definitely look ino it. Thanks for the heads up!

Duck Duck Go has a nice browser that has your privacy their main concern.

For the record, Airgun Revisions is one of the good guys, not one of the bad guys relative to advertisements in my opinion.

Also just my opinion but I disagree that I agreed to these annoying emails. For the parties to truly agree it requires them to have similar ability to negotiate the agreed upon terms. What companies do is probably their only practical alternative but I don't believe I can negotiate my way out of email notifications authorized by a check box when I am purchasing an item. Either I want to buy the item or I don't. But I could block them later. I do not because I like the vendors and buy from them sometimes, I just do not need them snooping on my browsing and then sending me yet another email.

I hate the pop up boxes too. Sometimes they block a button I want to push and I cannot move them out of the way. I see no good purposes the boxes serve. They are just in my opinion annoying junk.

I do not like all their politics, possibly any of their politics, but I think the real model of how to do on line business remains Amazon. I remember when they were just a silly little on line book seller. Look where they are now. I have never had a pop up when browing their website and I think they use data from my browing history to send me add emails for the same or similar stuff but it is a lot more subtle than the "hey we saw you browing" emails. I wish others would check out how the most successful do this and copy them instead of creating their own ways to be annoying.

BBGunn said:

First off, the majority of airgun retailers don't spam their customers..., but a few do!

There is one airgun retailer in particular that sends it's customers an email every time the customer browses the website. It's just 'creepy' when you get an email that says the retailer's site noticed you were browsing a particular item and wants you to come back and reconsider the purchase! Totally inappropriate! And of course, the same reatiler sends numerous spam mails each and every day! Really?

I don't remember how many times I've signed-up for emails from this retailer and then been so offended by their marketing scheme (spamming) that I cancel receiving those emails from them! I'm done, no more signing back up with that outfit!

Anyone else feel like I do about airgun retailers spamming?

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I have noticed several other retailers doing that. don't like it.