Kevin M.: > I recently signed up for notifications of when tickets will be > available to attend tapings of "Top Gear US" but today I was sent > information on how to claim "priority" tickets for "Let's Make A Deal" > instead. I often drive by the KTLA lot where Deal is taped and have > seen the line numerous times -- my priority is to get away from it as > fast as possible. I used to work for On Camera Audiences, the company > who handles ticketing for these shows, and I know they are a bare > bones operation and they no doubt dump all incoming emails into a bulk > mailing list. It annoys me that on the rare instance I might want to > attend a taping I'm going to have to endure junk emails regarding > things you couldn't pay me to see. > > It is like when you foolishly sign one petition for a cause without > realizing the end result is your mailbox gets molested with notices > and pleas from every other do-good organization. Or when I buy a > Robert B. Parker book on Amazon and Amazon "recommends" a bunch of > authors I can't stand, just because they also write dimestore fiction.
A (now quite popular) rock club in my area, back when it first opened, had not yet gotten either the pizza oven for which it is now also revered in addition to its sometimes-very-familiar musical offerings, or its permit to sell booze, so as a contingency it revived a "healthy" restaurant a friend of the owners used to run years before in the same business district. The eating area and the rest of the venue were, as building codes would likely require, reasonably separated... still are. I signed up for a mailing list to find out when the eatery would be open and what unique fare it would be serving, but ended up mostly getting a bunch of concert plugs for bands in which I was hardly interested, and even had I been would have had quite a bear handling the public transit to and from. At some point, the club stopped sending me messages, but I was still getting them from some of the bands! -- BOB -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
