For a long time now, the two that I would consider the worst offenders are Ticketek and Grays Online. Not just because they batch and blast with no segmentation whatsoever, but because both like to highlight their extensive 'preferences management' sections on their websites. They point to these in their emails and all over their sites and seem to be quite proud that they ask you stuff that they both promptly ignore.
The funny thing with this is that both publishers use the term 'My' to denote these sections, trying to lull me into thinking that these preferences are actually mine. To be fair, when I actually check these sections, those checkboxes are actually highlighting products and events that I have actually chosen. So what's happened to these when they go to communicate with me?
Who knows?
The best examples of ignoring me has been when Grays tried to sell me a boat mooring (I don't have a boat and haven't told them I'm interested in marine auctions) in Queensland (they know I live in NSW), earthmoving equipment (pickup) and food processing machinery. Yeah, just the stuff I needed!
Ticketek likes to send me offers to see events that they know I'm not interested in. I don't have kids and don't want to go sit in the audience with a thousand 4 years olds to watch the Wiggles - in Victoria. Nor do I care about Fashion Weekend (but at least they got the Sydney part right)
But it's not just these two retailers that do this. David Jones does a good job of ignoring me too. The most humorous was where they emailed me about some new vibrating mascara!
I'll put it down to that CERN particle accelerator. It apparently hasn't destroyed the universe as the tin hat brigade predicted, but it seems to have slipped us into an alternate dimension where preferences don't matter.
It's either that or the effects of the ash cloud from that unpronounceable volcano (why not leave some consonants for the rest of us?)
They're someones preferences, but they're definitely not 'MY'.
