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Unwanted emails ..need help

elruth — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 20:20:44 GMT

I do alot of online shopping. Now I am getting alot of unwanted emails from companies I never used. Should I unsubscribe or just hope they stop sending the emails? Someone told me that once you post your email to unsubscribe, that makes the situation worse since the original sender now knows there is actually someone at the email address. I really don't want to change my email address if that is an option.

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I am still oxox — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 20:22:56 GMT

I either hit SPAM or unsubscribe.

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GCR18 — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 20:25:16 GMT

I click unsubscribe and it hasn't increased my emails.

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chickenbutt — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 20:29:23 GMT

As long as they are from legitimate sources I also use 'unsubscribe' that that works about 99% of the time.

If it's obviously spam, I never did that because all that does is legitimize your email address and they will sell it like crazy and it will get way worse. Those I always just qualify them as 'spam' and then they won't hit the inbox anymore.

I hope I don't jinx myself, but ever since I changed ISPs, almost two years ago, I have not gotten a single spam email on any of my 3 email addresses. I like that a lot!

By the time I left ATT I was getting so many of them and then when I quit ATT (that really pi$$es them off!), I suddenly started getting hundreds of them until I got my email addresses switched over. That was weird. They also started sending me spam in the snail mail when I quit them. They don't seem to like it when you quit them. It was STILL worth quitting them!

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Bri36 — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 20:38:07 GMT

I just unsubscribe. Sometimes it takes a few days to take effect

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drizzellla — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 20:40:17 GMT

I just hit SPAM. And then I do not get anymore emails from them.

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Peaches McPhee — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 20:56:11 GMT

If it is spam, don't unsubscribe. I heard that this does validate the address to the spammers and you don't want to do that.

If it is from a legit source, like a retailer, you can unsubscribe with no worries. It does take a few days/weeks, and sometimes I have to do it a few times for it to stick. (I tend to think this is on purpose from the source, but that is just me . . . )

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sunshine45 — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 21:12:59 GMT

i either unsubscribe or send them to spam, depending on who they are from.

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AuntG — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 21:31:56 GMT

I clean out my spam daily and have wondered about the question Do you want to stop getting these emails? Some of this stuff is filth, but when I click to unsubscribe, it asks for my email address and I back out because I'm afraid of getting more junk sent my way.

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threecees — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 21:36:41 GMT

I would wait to see if the companies offer you any good discounts thru the emails before I unsubscribe. It might take a few days for the emails to stop when you do unsubscribe from them.

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Desertdi — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:00:19 GMT

Your email provider should have an "option" to block senders.

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riley1 — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 23:09:25 GMT

I unsubscribe to anything I don't want.

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alucky13 — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 23:32:38 GMT

A free site unroll.me works very well to keep down unwanted junk mail. It will filter and screen out unwanted email. I've been using for years and wouldn't want to be without it.

Good luck!

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CareBears — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 23:34:39 GMT

@I am still oxox I do that too, but lately I have found when I hit resubscribe it just spins and spins almost like it will not let you unsubsidized, so then I hit spam and then I block them!

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Moonchilde — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 01:52:30 GMT

I normally unsubscribe and that’s that for most companies. Once in a while a less reputable company will make it extremely difficult, or impossible, to unsub, or tell you these outlandish “it’ll take 2-3 weeks to get you off the list” tales. For all of those, where I unsub and still keep getting mail, I just mark spam after that, and the mails still disappear mostly.

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deedledeedeedle — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 11:14:22 GMT

I now use unrollme dot com. I decide what company can email me. It's great.

dee

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Lipstickdiva — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 16:51:44 GMT

I unsubcribe for the most part, depending on who it is.

I have attempted to unsubscribe from GILT a number of times and everytime and it does't work. This is why I detest websites that make you enter an e-mail address to even browse. I would never do business with GILT.