Sweet Jesus McGee... Flex Media spam emails...

[Jaco]

Anyone else out there getting bombed with their stupid auto-gen emails announcing whenever a singular or plural of a name you own is about to drop?

I've gotten three emails from them in the past few days on different names...

Hello, my name is Jonathan Waltz from Flex Media.
XXXXXXXXXXXX.com will be available for purchase in a few days.
Since you own XXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com, I thought you might be interested in XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com.

Our research on a sample size of over one million domains has led us to determine you are possibly losing up to 40% of your traffic to XXXXXXXXXXXXXXxx.com by not owning XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com
It is recommended to eliminate any confusion to XXXXXXXXXXXXXx.com, to own both the singular/plural versions of the domain.

Your purchase will be a one time fee only that includes one year of complimentary registration.
You also have the option to forward XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com to XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx.com at no cost.
After purchasing XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com you will never be charged again by Flex Media.

If you do have an interest in buying XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx.com, please visit:
http://www.flexmediadomains.com/prioritysales/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Once XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com is available for purchase, one of my account specialists will contact you.

Thank you and have a great day.

Flex Media Inc
7777 Davie Road Ext, Suite 106B, Hollywood, FL 33024
954-324-7790
Flex Media Domains

If you do not want to hear from us ever again, please let us know by clicking on:
http://www.flexmediadomains.com/manage.phpXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

or writing to Flex Media Inc, 7777 Davie Road Ext, Suite 106B, Hollywood, FL 33024.
It may take up to ten days for this to take effect.

You then click on a link where you're asked to 'make an offer' on a name that they don't even own.
Obviously, they then take this information from Clueless End-User who offered whatever, put in a bid with the catchers and pocket the difference between what the end-user 'bid' and what it cost them to acquire it.

Interesting, I don't know how I feel about the ethics of it all, but I do hate obnoxious spam, of which they seem to be generators of. I'm sorely tempted to start making bogus 'bids' every time they send me an email, then get in the backorder auctions myself and bid up the names. I'm sure after winning a few four-figure names on behalf of fictitious end-users that never existed in the first place, they'll probably get the point.

 

[TestCase]

I tend to get those sort of things in cycles and often from several different services offering me the exact same domain.

Hey, whatcha gonna do?!?! After all it's America, home of the free -- and capitalism!

Now as much as I hate spam, I recently changed my stance towards spammers once I started to think about it.

If there wasn't a successful business model behind what they do -- i.e. a sufficient quantity of idiots that actually buy product/service/whatever offered in spam -- then there would be minimal, if any, spam.

So I'm blaming ALL the spam on ALL the morons that respond to spam!