Dashmellow
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I don't want to disrupt any other discussion about the new Innovv C1 camera, so I've decided to start a separate thread.
Today, I was kind of shocked to receive a SPAM from our friend and fellow DashCamTalk member RockThinking at Innovv Tech Ltd. promoting the new Innovv camera. I was NOT too pleased. The initial shock was because at first I didn't understand how Innovv Tech could possibly have gotten hold of my email address which is completely unconnected in any way from DashCamTalk. It took a few minutes to realize that this SPAM came to the email address I use for buying and selling on eBay and in all likelihood this is connected to my purchase of a DR32 camera all the way back in March of 2013.
Firstly, I have a powerful pet peeve about companies and garden variety spammers sending me unsolicited emails. Additionally, it is a violation of eBay's policies for members to send such SPAM, especially of this nature, some 9 months after a purchase. Unfortunately, this practice is becoming rampant on eBay, particularly among Chinese merchants. When someone starts abusing your privacy like this it can soon get out of control and an email address that was previously free of SPAM problem becomes flooded. Usually, it is nearly impossible to figure out how someone got your address for this purpose but in this unusual case, the sender identified himself and, of course, as a DashCamTalk member I knew the name. Another issue is that this email came from a Gmail address and this too is a violation of Google's policies so far as I know. And why is a company like Innovv with a registered domain address of Innovv.com with it's own associated email domains using Gmail to send stuff like this?
Perhaps I wouldn't have minded receiving this particular missive but I am among those unlucky souls who purchased one of the early versions of the DR32 and got stuck with a defective camera after the company decided to abandon all the early buyers of the defective units. A lot of folks on this forum know what I am talking about. It is a shame really, because the DR32 is a nice unit if it works properly. All I can say is that I can tell you for sure that I will not be buying an Innovv C1 or any other product from a company that does business this way and so receiving SPAM from them in especially irksome.
RockThinking, my friend, this is not a good way to conduct your business, IMHO.
Respectfully,
Dashmellow
Today, I was kind of shocked to receive a SPAM from our friend and fellow DashCamTalk member RockThinking at Innovv Tech Ltd. promoting the new Innovv camera. I was NOT too pleased. The initial shock was because at first I didn't understand how Innovv Tech could possibly have gotten hold of my email address which is completely unconnected in any way from DashCamTalk. It took a few minutes to realize that this SPAM came to the email address I use for buying and selling on eBay and in all likelihood this is connected to my purchase of a DR32 camera all the way back in March of 2013.
Firstly, I have a powerful pet peeve about companies and garden variety spammers sending me unsolicited emails. Additionally, it is a violation of eBay's policies for members to send such SPAM, especially of this nature, some 9 months after a purchase. Unfortunately, this practice is becoming rampant on eBay, particularly among Chinese merchants. When someone starts abusing your privacy like this it can soon get out of control and an email address that was previously free of SPAM problem becomes flooded. Usually, it is nearly impossible to figure out how someone got your address for this purpose but in this unusual case, the sender identified himself and, of course, as a DashCamTalk member I knew the name. Another issue is that this email came from a Gmail address and this too is a violation of Google's policies so far as I know. And why is a company like Innovv with a registered domain address of Innovv.com with it's own associated email domains using Gmail to send stuff like this?
Perhaps I wouldn't have minded receiving this particular missive but I am among those unlucky souls who purchased one of the early versions of the DR32 and got stuck with a defective camera after the company decided to abandon all the early buyers of the defective units. A lot of folks on this forum know what I am talking about. It is a shame really, because the DR32 is a nice unit if it works properly. All I can say is that I can tell you for sure that I will not be buying an Innovv C1 or any other product from a company that does business this way and so receiving SPAM from them in especially irksome.
RockThinking, my friend, this is not a good way to conduct your business, IMHO.
Respectfully,
Dashmellow
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