>For the life of me I cannot figure out how any marketing department or >person would even consider sending out these emails. If I see an email >touting some product in this manner I delete it and would not buy >anything from them. Do people really get hooked by these things?
There will always be a percentage of people that do fall for it and buy (or attempt to buy, as I'm sure most of them are bogus offers just looking to scam money). Its a numbers game. If 0.01% of the people that are spammed buy the product, and 1 million people are spammed, that equates to 1000 people that buy the product. Spamming 1 million people may cost a company $100. So if they sell a $50 product, and 1000 people buy it, that's $50,000 they make off a $100 advertising cost. That's $49,900 in profit! And they can hammer out these spams daily. And even if no one purchases a product, the spammers will make the above claims on the numbers. That goads people into buying their email lists, or hiring them to actually send the spams. The spammer makes money regardless of if the product in the email is purchased. So they encourage people to use the spammer for advertising by pushing the above claims. As long as the spammers are making money, they will find ways to sucker others into buying the service. And as long as some minor percent of the millions spammed buys the product, there will be companies willing to hire the spammers. And no matter WHAT you do, you will never cause there to be NO financial returns on spam. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
