How many marketing emails is too many?

[steve B]

Originally Posted by Leon

OF course there is. People like to complain. It is a God given right.
And for the record, we (Net54baseball) have never ever sold or given away any emails or phone numbers in our database. We do send out emails for companies as Hobby Updates but they too are easily opted out of.

As I mentioned to Peter, I'm ok with one, maybe even two or three a day, especially from an advertiser that supports something I enjoy.


I thought five was a bit much. (If it was stuff I bought, which with an oil bill of 1700-2000 the last couple months is nearly nothing five might be cool. )

[steve B]

As an aside about eccentricity...

I occasionally watched shop at home, and the baseball card guy often had "exclusives" which I rarely see. I have a signature rookies set and signed card that I think was one of those. As far as I know nobody cataloged any of that stuff. To be fair, it was lumped in with overhyped sets, overpriced "investments" and such all of which were just regular cards.

So why does that matter in this discussion?
Despite being grouchy about getting lots of emails, I don't delete them. Some part of me figures that someday those emails will be sort of the only "catalog" of what was available.

And yes, I know that's sort of weird and a bit messed up.