I received my first of what I assume will be many unsolicited e-mails from the BlastOff Network. It was the following enticement to get me to shop through the network on Black Friday.
The e-mail contained no text, just the above image. By itself, that is not very interesting. The interesting part is the e-mail was sent from blastoff@jangomail.com.
That’s right, because their regular domain name and ip addresses have been repeatedly flagged as spam, they had to resort to using a 3rd party e-mail service called Jango Mail to communicate with their own members. I can confirm that regular BlastOff Network e-mails are still having blacklist problems, as Doo Dilly has not received my invite.
Happy Blast Friday and enjoy the “massive discounts going on throughout the Blastoff Mall”! I’ll be sleeping in.
Belly full of turkey, and I just checked my spam folder. No invite. The getsatisfaction community has gone quieter still, and “apparently” they opened a “private” community for members only: “When you’re logged into your Blastoff site, click on Community then click Log in, then I just used my Blastoff User name and password I use for logging onto my Blastoff site. My first time I did this and I was in.”
http://getsatisfaction.com/blastoff/topics/last_one_to_leave_turn_out_the_lights
I won’t be able to rubberneck until I join your network. One thing is guaranteed: if they’re running it themselves instead of using a 3rd party, well… I think we can predict how it will go.
As to invites, this page is provided for comic relief/obfuscation–My favorite line: :”If your emails are marked as Sent in your Invites window, then they have been sent out from our email server. Sent does not mean “received”.”
Okie dokie, Dougie.
http://getsatisfaction.com/people/doug_gray
As to “Blast Friday”, that is bad on so many levels, from a marketing, grammatical and negative connotation point of view, just to name three. Wikipedia mentions Casual, Good, Man, and TGI(F)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday
A 3rd grader could have done better…
Not to mention that “Black Friday” traditionally refers to brick and mortar shopping, while “Cyber Monday” refers to Internet shopping (even though there is a Pseudo Cyber Black Friday, I don’t think BO will expand that trend)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Monday