Fun with Retail Email
Since the weather was nice this morning (Christmas Eve), my wife and I went for a ride to look for a few last minute items before we spend the next day and a half with the family. Of course, every store we went to wanted to collect our email address. Sometimes I just want to buy something, but that doesn’t seem to be enough anymore.
I’m sure that I’m not the first to think of this, but how about having a little fun with the email address for this type of situation? Here are a few ideas.
- flushthis@
- myjunkfolder@
- crapcollector@
- thisiscrap@
- ihatespamemail@
- ihatecorporatespam@
- corporatecrap@
- mycrapemailaccount@
and my personal favorite: thiswillbeflushed@
Be creative; mix and match. The possibilities are endless, and if you can’t get one at gmail, try hotmail, live.com, yahoo, etc. Nothing better than seeing the smirk on the associates face as you provide this email. Spread that holiday cheer!
December 25th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
I like it! Heh, I did something similar at a resort once. I was asked for my name to be entered in a contest. I gave John D’Oh and had a few good laughs when John D’Oh was called to the stage - repeatedly - later that night.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:43 am
A few months ago, I spent a while trying to come up with a catchy Gmail account name for all my junk email. I finally came across this gem: 99percentspam@gmail.com
January 10th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
This is one of my pet hates. Basically, I use a catchall on a dedicated domain, that way I can use the business name as the acct (ie danperry@thedomain.com). I’ve found its one of the best ways to avoid spam (believe it or not), as well as identify those who are propagating/onselling/exposing your email addr.
January 11th, 2008 at 12:57 am
Jeez, thanks for this article… my email IS ACTUALLY ihatespam [at] gmail dot com and I just want to thank you for helping to increase the amount of other people’s crap spam that I already get. Somehow google likes to send email to me, even if it’s not directly addressed to my address - if it’s just close, it will often get routed to me (I guess that they consider this a feature?)
I can’t tell you how much stuff I get, including password and account details, links to photos (some I can’t even stomach to look at), and countless other drivel from people’s day-to-day lives, where they would like to remain anonymous.
So, again.. thanks a LOT! I appreciate it.