wowcher

[idshagphilspencer]

Dear MNHQ ,
I have never signed up to wowcher yet conincidentally since they have begun advertising on mumsnet I have begun to receive emails from them. Coincidence or soemthing else???
Yours
Idshag

[CatherineHMumsnet]

Hi - I can only repeat our comments on another thread on this subject -

We would NEVER give/sell your email addresses to a third party without your express permission.

We arranged the Wowcher thingie through a third party, so we don't even have a contact person at Wowcher to sell/give the email addresses to, even if we wanted to - which we don't.

All we can think is that Wowcher, being a new outfit and all, has cunningly bought up huge numbers of lists of email addies from those companies that flog them - and is flooding everyone's inbox that way.

[idshagphilspencer]

Just seem strange that's all. Call me a cynic and all that.

[mildred37]

I've experienced the same. Funny how it's started not long after they appeared on MN.

Not blaming MN, just wondering if wowcher have been less than honest in some way.

[idshagphilspencer]

I'm thinking the same mildred.

[Tee2072]

I'm thinking Wowcher did a huge campaign all at once, all over the 'net, and, as Catherine said, have bought emails from...someone or many some ones in order to send the emails.

It's just a coincidence that MN happens to be part of their marketing campaign.

I, personally, have not received an email from them. And I've been on MN for centuries.

[NetworkGuy]

Me neither (as far as getting any 'spam') but then again, I 'shield' my mail addresses with the free service of SpamGourmet.com so every site I use has a unique e-mail address and if they ever did get hacked, or sold a mail list database, it would be clear which site might have been compromised.