posted on October 8, 2000 05:05:19 AM
OK ... the other word for SPAM is UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email). As you intend to profit or from sending this email it is commercial. You admit is is unsolicited. It is therefore spam.
The only non-spam communication with a buyer is the item-specific end-of-auction mails.
If you want to build a mailing list, ask the winning bidders from now on if they would like to be notified of similar items WITH the EOA mail you send.
As for the losers ... sending them ONE "would like to be notified of similar items if I list one?" immediately after the auction would not be spam. Sending it WEEKS later, when they have forgotten the bid, would be spam. Juast make sure you keep track of who wants to be notified about what.
posted on October 8, 2000 06:06:46 AM
How about sending a physical post card to the addresses you have from your sales? If you are worried about it reaching them too late
send them then wait 2 or 3 days to list so they will get them during the auction? 20¢ each is pretty cheap.
posted on October 8, 2000 06:26:37 AM
Yes, the email would be considered spam.
I used to in my follow up on a sale, ask if I could contact them if I had similar items up for sale. Some would indicate okay, "...but only from you", while others said no. I always respected their wishes. Their emails indicating an ok was kept in a file. But after a few months I would delete the email, Because most folks would forget about giving an okay. In My instance it would not be considered Spam. But If I contacted them a year later, I would consider it to be spam.
posted on October 8, 2000 08:30:17 AM
I wouldn't call this SPAM.
OTOH, the crap I keep getting from eBay about joining their "university" IS SPAM, along with all those others messages I get that start out with "Hello eBay member ..."
Obviously, eBay has added to their wealth by selling the email addresses of their members. Dirty pool I'd say. The companies that are buying your info should be a little more careful in what they are paying for - I, for example, am NOT an eBay member yet I continue to get the eBay SPAM
