At the risk of it sounding like a dad joke, that is *so* on the money.
I just want to buy a thing; I don't want your emails, or your surveys. I want to give you money, get my thing, and then have you leave me the F' alone. This is how transactions work; I give you money, you give me thing, and then the transaction is complete.
This shit keeps happening because everybody trying to sell shit thinks they need or deserve to have a "relationship" with their customers.
I don't want a relationship with ATLUS or SEGA just because I bought the deluxe remastered edition of Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne. Nor do I want a relationship with Nissan just because I had bought a car from them. And I sure as shit don't want a relationship with Google because I let my day job issue me an Android phone.
I can barely tolerate relationships with other human beings. I certainly won't tolerate relationships with corporations.
I need to be less lazy and sign up for a credit cards that gives you a unique card for each purchase, and the email address system that give you a different burner email for each transaction.
The worst (if there is a worst) is when you click the box that you don't want to be bothered, but yet they continue to harass you. I no longer shop at Khol's because of this; for some reason they think it's their god given right to send you as much spam as possible with no way to actually unsubscribe, except they made the mistake in thinking that I needed them for some reason, so I just blocked them altogether. Not that it really matters; for every 1 person that blocks them for being a pain, there are 1000 other people thinking that the spam they are getting is some great service.
Idea... when a store asks for your email, give them the support email address for that store :)
Yes that is what the typical WWW monster behaves like these days. You land on a website, you see something you find interesting, the price is reasonable so you go to buy it and....WHAM! you get hit with "free newsletter" unwanted video advert, blah blah blah. At times, shit like that has caused my whole computer to freeze up so that now I have to give my computer a hard reboot......talk about raging the fuck out, well they lost a customer.....I feel your pain honestly.
"But don't you want to know about upcoming offers and opportunities?"
- rolls eyes - "no, no I do not."
I think for "peak amazon" they need to annoy the people just a few years more ;-) And meanwhile... perhaps its time for some "not so annoying webshops" in the small web... just thinking...
I just want to just buy a thing, I don’t care about anything- Else you may sell, Show an ad? Go to hell! Just please, let me buy my shopping.
I purchase a thing the transaction is complete nothing more kind sir
Where are the snows of yesteryear? The tears Of other days, where have they gone? Where are All those illustrious men and women, in whose days Did reason shine as steady as a fixed star? When you could go to the town's market with good cheer And buy -- a lettuce here, some carrots there, some wine, And smile at the shopkeepers in good spirits, without fear That the whole purpose of their business would be to divine What food you had at at dinner, and with whom, and at what hour, If you are single, married, if you've children, if you're gay, What kind of porn excites you, oh, here, you can buy this flower You know, in case you meet your favourite pornstar of the day. We had no antibiotics and no television but I swear to God I sometimes understand the luddites who would give a kidney to go back.
My sonnet writing is a little rusty but I hope it gets the point across :-D?