Why You Get Reunion.Com Spam

As most people who have a work email address from time to time I send out personal emails. I also hand out business cards, which contain my business email address on it to friends and family members and potential love interests. Therefore, like everyone else I get my share of spam from forwards, jokes, and such.

However, just today I received an email from one of my ex's ex inviting me to connect with her on reunion.com. I have never communicated with the woman, and I certainly would not want to hook up with her. After a talk with my ex, I found out she stole my business card from him, and that was how she got my email address. I then went over to reunion.com to read their terms of service and privacy policy, and spamcop.com to report the mailing.

After hunting all over reunion.com, I discovered there is no way to contact them through email only through phone. So I spent 15 minutes on hold to talk to a person who said that their emails always do contain an opt-out link in the email. I told him, I was right in front of my computer looking at the email, there was and IS no opt-out link. He actually argued with me! Believe me if there was a link I would have clicked it before calling, as well as reporting it for spam through spamcop.com. I would not want to waste anyone's time with false spam reports.

After that argument, I asked him about their terms of service and privacy policy regarding spam issues, and he told me they have one, just not one that helps in my case. I pushed him asking, "In what case does it help?" By law, spam is unwanted email. I do not want reunion.com email invites at my business email address, therefore it is spam. I expressed how I would like to have my email address blacklisted from getting reunion.com invites from now on. It is a business, and if I worked for Google instead of a small company, you had better believe they would stop the spam in a heartbeat.

The gentlemen on the phone placed me on hold again, and after 5 minutes came back to tell me that his manager has passed on my information to the tech department to deal with. I then headed over to Google to look at how many other people have dealt with spam issues regarding reunion.com. I was not too shocked to see loads of pages, blog entries, and articles on this very topic.

It looks as though avon.com and reunion.com have the same policy in regards to spam, spam and spam alike. It is no wonder that reunion.com has over 40 million members through the nice little email connector that TOO many people do not pay attention to.