Getting spammed by the Jeff Berlin Music Group

[MaHei]

Anyone else? There is nothing wrong with promoting a product. But to ignore multiple unsubscribe requests via the unsubscribe button and direct e-mails is not ok. It feels like they have gone off the deep end.

What is going on with the JBMG?

 

[lordradish]

If you're on FB, Jeff's pretty responsive to folks.

 

[Brother Goose]

Unsubscribe?

 

[dune]

Most email applications have a way to route messages from a specific sender or domain name directly to Spam or Trash folders.

 

[jnewmark]

Most email applications have a way to route messages from a specific sender or domain name directly to Spam or Trash folders.

Pretty much what I do, then empty the folder.

 

[P Coburn]

If I find a site is unresponsive to Unsubscribe ( almost always), then it's gets filtered to a spam folder. I got tired of doing it myself and got a pretty good 3rd party filter that does a really good job of keeping things tidy. If I'm going to hit a site only occasionally, I'll hide my email ( an option free and easy in the more recent MacOS ). If a site abuses it that address with spam, I filter that email address to either spam or trash depending on any monetary transactions I may have had with them. Life in the 21st Century, kinda sucky.

 

[Fat bob]

I think if you start practicing with the metronome and memorizing songs then it goes away

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Unsubscribe?

multiple unsubscribe requests via the unsubscribe button

 

[MaHei]

Those who are suggesting I simply block the JBMG (as I did) are missing the point. Let me rephrase: What business sense does it make for JBMG to pester its customer base?

This is not a random company collecting addresses by bot to send out mass e-mails. JBMG apparently made the decision to start abusing its database of customers, which they have curated over the years. Those are people who have been following JB, have purchased his bass methods, his music, participated in the many educational discussions he initiated, and, might have met JB in person, as I have.

 

[Dana R Gregory]

Maybe the site was hacked and the hackers are using JBMG to mask scamming efforts.

 

[rodak]

If I find a site is unresponsive to Unsubscribe ( almost always), then it's gets filtered to a spam folder. I got tired of doing it myself and got a pretty good 3rd party filter that does a really good job of keeping things tidy. If I'm going to hit a site only occasionally, I'll hide my email ( an option free and easy in the more recent MacOS ). If a site abuses it that address with spam, I filter that email address to either spam or trash depending on any monetary transactions I may have had with them. Life in the 21st Century, kinda sucky.

I've had the exact opposite experience. I've unsubscribed to literally hundreds of senders, services and whatnot over the years, and I'd rate my success rate somewhere around 98-99%. I have my own domain name, and I create a separate email address for myself for most internet services I sign up for, so I have like "[email protected]", "[email protected]", etc, so if any of them "rat me out" in the future, I'll know from whence it came, and I just delete that email address. This has happened in extremely few instances, and most of those were as a result of the service being a victim of a data breach (which I found out thanks to Troy Hunt's excellent haveibeenpwned.com service). I don't run any anti-spam software on my client devices, and I have anti-spam turned off at my email hosting service, and I get zero spam - my "spam folder" is always empty. I'm signed up with several hundred different web merchants and services, and the only emails I get from any of them are the ones I want. I've found that most legitimate businesses will honor unsubscribe requests. I have also, on a very few occasions, made a special effort to contact the sender, pointing out that having an "unsubscribe" link that doesn't work is a violation of the Invalid Link Removed, with penalties of up to $53,088 per instance, and that actually worked!

I used to be an email administrator for a medium-sized organization, so that helped somewhat in understanding how some of these things worked.

 

[BowserGriff]

Scott's bass lessons do the same and even make their spam click baity. Not only have they made me never want to pay for his lessons but also made me stop watching his YouTube videos. He's irritated and pestered me to the point of revulsion. Strong, I know. I guess that business tactics works on other people, but you can't please everyone, I guess.

 

[rogerbmiller]

Those who are suggesting I simply block the JBMG (as I did) are missing the point. Let me rephrase: What business sense does it make for JBMG to pester its customer base?

This is not a random company collecting addresses by bot to send out mass e-mails. JBMG apparently made the decision to start abusing its database of customers, which they have curated over the years. Those are people who have been following JB, have purchased his bass methods, his music, participated in the many educational discussions he initiated, and, might have met JB in person, as I have.

I mean, you know who the owner is, right?

 

[MaHei]

I mean, you know who the owner is, right?

In another thread someone indicated Jeff might have lost control over JBMG and I am not claiming the spamming is Jeff's personal doing. I have had many years of positive interactions with the company and it wasn't until a few months ago that the spamming started. Something has changed.

 

[Smallmouth_Bass]

Scott's bass lessons do the same and even make their spam click baity. Not only have they made me never want to pay for his lessons but also made me stop watching his YouTube videos. He's irritated and pestered me to the point of revulsion. Strong, I know. I guess that business tactics works on other people, but you can't please everyone, I guess.

Yeah, I signed up for the SBL "free" giveaways and the spam is nothing short of harassment.

 

[zombywoof5050]

I've always felt that when I click Unsubscribe (especially when it asks me to put in the email address that I want unsubscribed), that it actually saves that email address and shares it with others, so then I end up getting even more spam from various other places. It's a conspiracy I tell you!

 

[rodak]

I've always felt that when I click Unsubscribe (especially when it asks me to put in the email address that I want unsubscribed), that it actually saves that email address and shares it with others, so then I end up getting even more spam from various other places. It's a conspiracy I tell you!

If you're dealing with a shady sort of business, on one of the more seamy parts of the web, then yeah, that might be true, but as I said, I've found, via literally hundreds of "unsubscribes" (using different email accounts, not just my personal domain), that the VAST majority of businesses honor that and do not put you on on any sort of "please spam me" list. And because of the way I use my personal domain for individualized email addresses, I'll know for a fact if and when any of them ever rats me out, and that rarely happens.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Maybe the site was hacked and the hackers are using JBMG to mask scamming efforts.

Selling dipstick lick enhancement therapies?

 

[brianrost]

Let me rephrase: What business sense does it make for JBMG to pester its customer base?

Because it worked for Scott’s Bass Lessons?