A hostel company I stayed with a while back emailed me with the subject: “Your booking is confirmed!”. This made me frantically check all my accounts since I hadn’t booked any hostels recently. I was super concerned until I opened the email and saw… it was a stupid marketing email…
This kind of marketing should be illegal. Don’t use Clink Hostels.
Look up the email for their legal department and demand they cancel all fraudulent bookings under your name. Play dumb a little so they take it up with marketing.
Yeah, this is one of the few cases where going a bit Karen is called for. Fucking marketers.
Would instantly unsubscribe, leave negative reviews and never stay there again.
And report the email as spam on Gmail
Op is using ProtonMail, there’s a report button there also.
I hope Gmail aggregates the reports from other platforms, because most of Clink’s target market uses Gmail
Send a message to their help desk saying you got an email confirmation and would like to cancel it. Act very confused about the situation. Waste their time and make it their problem.
This also wastes OPs time though
Pay me enough, and I’ll waste everyone’s time. Wait…
Did I just reinvent lobbying?
On top of that, it also doesn’t waste the responsible team’s time. It wastes the help desk’s time who have little to no say in this subject.
That’s why you escalate straight to legal. Waste the time of someone more expensive than the idiots in marketing.
Not if you automate it!
time is just a construct
And op won’t even be getting paid to do it
Better yet, demand loudly to get a refund. When they say there is nothing to refund, insist that you have an email confirming a booking.
Escalate to management as quickly as possible so you’re not just annoying some poor front desk worker that had nothing to do with it.
Call center “management” is typically not an actual manager, and definitely not involved with the decision either.
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That’s a good way for their emails to all get marked as scams. They think they’re being slick, but are actually destroying their marketing campaign.
Gotta go for the short term gains, babyeeeee!
Get that bonus, apply for jobs elsewhere. Rinse and repeat.
Yeah, it’s silly.
Literally who the hell is gonna see this and think “ah what the hell?”
Time to add their email to your spam filter and not see their emails again.
Time to gpdr your info back from them.
Blacklist the company from your emails. They have lost emailing privileges.
Companies everywhere are getting desperate I feel like. Google’s adblocker crusade being the most egregious imo.
Just show up and show them the booking confirmation!
Your email inbox reads like a Zoomer message thread
Filter messages like these -> Move to ‘Spam’.
Nah. Report it as spam. Still gets moved to your spam folder and if enough people do it, they’ll be flagged by default.
Is there an asshole design community on lemmy?
Nice to see someone else using proton
Team Proton!
Hostile Hostel
I get these too.
The best part is that they keep getting added to my Google calendar. I have the option tuned off in my Google account settings, I report them as spam as soon as I get them, but I still get pop up notifications from my Google calendar reminding me of my “trip”.That’s because gmail automatically adds .ics files to your calendar. I don’t even think there’s a way to disable it. I checked and my solution was to not use gmail for those things. For spam emails luckily I don’t have this problem
Weird, mine asks me if I want to add things to my calendar still, up by the header, same spot it puts the “is this spam” question box
Always nice to see a fellow ProtonMail user. Wassup fam
If he has unlimited he could use SimpleLogin aliases in the future
Ye, it’s pretty worth it imo. I got like over 500 aliases.
