an open letter to argos.co.uk

Dear Argos,

A few months ago while surfing the internet I found a product that I wanted to buy was finally in stock in one of your branches. Rather than miss out I used the service that you offer on your website of reserving the item so that I could definitely collect it at the store of my choosing. I have no complaints about this service because it, as it has in the past, worked exactly as it should.

However.

As part of the reservation process I had to leave an email address and I stupidly forgot to check the 'No I don't fucking want to be endlessly bombarded with junk emails' checkbox. Since then I've had at least 3 emails from you each week informing me of whatever promotion you are pushing at the time.

This week, as part of a tidy up and streamline of my email accounts I decided that I really should stop this stream of unwanted advertising so, reading one of them properly, I followed the unsubscribe link and, I thought, unsubscribed from your mailing lists. How foolish of me to think that you'd stop sending me emails.

Instead of your latest offers and discounts you are now emailing me to inform me of life insurance, car insurance, mortgages, savings schemes, loans and utility deals. If I follow the link at the bottom and unsubscribe from this mailing list which mailing list will you add my details to next?

So, Argos, just fuck the fuck off. Stop irritating me with your marketing, take me off all of your fucking mailing lists and do not transfer me to another new mailing list when I unsubscribe from your advertising. Cunts.


Yours tetchily

manwiddicombe