lorndav
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posted on October 2, 2000 12:48:57 PM
I have been doing this for about a year, and this is the first time I have been spammed by mail! I got an envelope today with no return address, and my name typed with a type writer. It was an add from a paper about weight lose. In writing it said try it, "Try it, it really works. It came from Ca. and I'm in Ne. I had a customer send me a money order with my name typed, I think it might be the same person. If I needed to lose weight, this would have really made me mad. I mean I'd like to lose 5lbs., but who wouldn't! Would you research more to find out who it was?
Anyone else hace anything like this happen?
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abingdoncomputers
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posted on October 2, 2000 12:52:55 PM
It's called junk-mail and I have a special file that I put mine into. I keep it right beside my desk.
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lotsafuzz
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posted on October 2, 2000 01:08:44 PM
This is a very common form of junk mail.
I believe it was Dr. Abby who wrote about this specific one. It seems many people were getting rather upset because the mail is made to look as though it is from a friend.
Toss it.
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dman3
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posted on October 2, 2000 05:41:00 PM
hmmmm spam by snail mail sounds like a slow meal stavation slowly 
we get them type of things here in the mail all the time about these fade pill and deits they come in envelopes by thems selfs they come in packages ordered from mail order cats you name its allways from california always news paper clipings.
I been thinking of saveing them for packageing for items heading back out to CA
WWW.dman-n-company.com
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dejavu
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posted on October 2, 2000 06:00:07 PM
try atkins, seriously or the schwarzbien principle those 50 pounds will melt (ask me, I know)
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lotsafuzz
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posted on October 2, 2000 06:56:07 PM
Uhh....I think she said 5 pounds, not 50.
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macandjan
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posted on October 2, 2000 07:18:43 PM
Junk mail is just packing that has not been through the shredder.
Spam has no shred value.
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bnutt
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posted on October 2, 2000 07:25:55 PM
I got the exact smae one.. Looks like they just ripped a page out of a newspaper and in hanwriting wrote" trry this ##### It really works."
I was so mad whn I got it I was trying to figure out who I knew in California .LOL
Bonnie
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Prudence
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posted on October 2, 2000 08:46:34 PM
This stupid bit of junk mail has been making people miserable for years. I hope the people behind it get everything they deserve. In the last 15 years at least six friends have told me they thought some unknown enemy was sending them this. There must be thousands who have felt the same way.
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kaskas
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posted on October 2, 2000 08:58:35 PM
I have gotten one of those also, But mine was before I was on Ebay so I dont think it is Ebay related.
KASKAS
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avaloncourt
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posted on October 2, 2000 09:44:50 PM
I'm in marketing and the ad you received has been around for several years. They are using techniques that make you think it's a personal piece of mail to get it opened and read. The company that does this promotion has the "ad" printed to newsprint and then real people tear it out so that it looks like someone is passing it along to you.
The note is also handwritten. Usually the note attached uses your first name to make people think, once again, it's a personal letter. The key is... the note is never signed.
The postmark is always California. There's been lots of people working their brains trying to figure out who they know in California that sent them this.
Personally, I'd be insulted to think an anonymous "friend" sent me a letter telling me I'm fat and to try this "miracle" weightloss system.
[ edited by avaloncourt on Oct 2, 2000 09:47 PM ]
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thedewey
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posted on October 2, 2000 11:30:25 PM
I got a snail-mail catalog (printed like a small newspaper) once from a seller I bought something from. It kind of aggravated me -- I considered it spam.
Interestingly, I was so dissatisfied with that particular seller's service that I left them a neutral ("they", meaning a company versus an individual seller). Then a few weeks later I got the catalog. Like I'd even consider buying from them again. 
Last time I looked, they were no longer selling on eBay.
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