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Question for Any Crocheters/Knitters

Melzie — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 13:12:41 GMT

For years I've been buying patterns from Annie's e-Patterns Central online and had been getting newsletters with sales several times a week but that all stopped in December. At first I thought that with Covid and Christmas they might be shorthanded but the newsletters never resumed. I wrote to their CS several times to no avail. If I want to see sales now I have to go on line to their website since I no longer get them in my email box. All my info is there so no issues with that.

Then I thought I would try an experiment and ordered a pattern. I went on line, placed an order, got the acknowledgement, downloaded the pattern, got a "thank you for the order" email and that was the end of it. We all know that if you order something on line it usually takes an act of God to get off their mailing list but not in this case.

Which brings me to my question. Is anyone else out there who orders patterns from Annie's e-Patterns Central experiencing something like this? If you got their sale emails in the past do you still get them or have they stopped for you too? I'm just curious to know if this issue is just with me or if they've stopped sending sale emails to everyone.

Thanks for any input!

Re: Question for Any Crocheters/Knitters

evelyner — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 13:30:21 GMT

I don't order from that site but I see the ads all the time I think on Facebook. You might try looking on Instagram or Facebook to see what's is happening to them.

Re: Question for Any Crocheters/Knitters

CelticCrafter — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 13:52:56 GMT

Not crochet or knitting related but my husband used to get circulars and e-mails from Harbor Freight and all of a sudden they stopped.

The last time he was in the store he asked about it and it's because of Covid that they stopped.

Re: Question for Any Crocheters/Knitters

Melzie — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 14:18:20 GMT

@evelyner wrote:
I don't order from that site but I see the ads all the time I think on Facebook. You might try looking on Instagram or Facebook to see what's is happening to them.

I don't use Instagram but I did look at their FB page but it doesn't address the email issue. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Re: Question for Any Crocheters/Knitters

Melzie — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 14:27:23 GMT

@CelticCrafter wrote:
Not crochet or knitting related but my husband used to get circulars and e-mails from Harbor Freight and all of a sudden they stopped.

The last time he was in the store he asked about it and it's because of Covid that they stopped.

That makes sense. I know that has happened with a lot of circulars that come in the mail but Covid started at the beginning of 2020 and the emails stopped around Christmas time. I thought it might be because of Covid but with all the emails I sent to thier CS I would think that someone would have simply responded with that as a reason rather than send me email after email telling me it was something I was doing wrong when I changed nothing at my end. I guess I should resign myself to the fact that I'll never get another sale email. Thanks for the reply.

Re: Question for Any Crocheters/Knitters

finch — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 14:53:46 GMT

Have you checked your spam folder?

Re: Question for Any Crocheters/Knitters

Kachina624 — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 15:02:38 GMT

In what way would covid possibly affect someone sitting at home crocheting or knitting? You'd think increased demand would cause the service to be enhanced.

Re: Question for Any Crocheters/Knitters

northiie57 — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 15:40:11 GMT

JMO....I have never paid for a pattern when there are many free crochet patterns online

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lovescats — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 17:21:47 GMT

maybe they didn't have enough ads for the emails to support the cost of sending them out.

I get 2 crochet magazines from annies and other than them being delayed some months I didn't have any problems. the magazines usually come in a plastic bag with ads for knickknacks. Have you tried yarninspirations.com for for free patterns?

Re: Question for Any Crocheters/Knitters

Melzie — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 17:36:24 GMT

@finch wrote:
Have you checked your spam folder?

Yup. I always check that first. I also have Annies on my white list and listed several different ways in my contacts list. Still no luck. I'm beginning to think they just stopped sending email sale notifications altogether but didn't bother announcing it. Thanks for responding.

Re: Question for Any Crocheters/Knitters

Melzie — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 17:42:10 GMT

@northiie57 wrote:
JMO....I have never paid for a pattern when there are many free crochet patterns online

I don't disagree but sometimes there's a pattern that is different and sometimes I don't want to be bothered clicking back and forth so for a dollar or two, on sale, I just pay for it.

Re: Question for Any Crocheters/Knitters

Melzie — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 17:50:40 GMT

@lovescats wrote:
maybe they didn't have enough ads for the emails to support the cost of sending them out.

I get 2 crochet magazines from annies and other than them being delayed some months I didn't have any problems. the magazines usually come in a plastic bag with ads for knickknacks. Have you tried yarninspirations.com for for free patterns?

Sending emails is relatively cheap and since the patterns are emailed for us to download it isn't really costing them all that much.

Yes, I look at all the sites for free patterns. Yarnspirations, Lion, Jo-Anne's. I'm just really curious as to why Annie's stopped sendng all of a sudden.

Re: Question for Any Crocheters/Knitters

sydsgma1 — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 19:23:01 GMT

I receive something in my email every day from them .you might want to try setting up a new account by cancelling your current one and starting over.

Re: Question for Any Crocheters/Knitters

gewisse — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 20:42:39 GMT

Have you heard of ravelry.com? It's the largest site for knit and crochet, it's free and offers more nformation than any site.

Re: Question for Any Crocheters/Knitters

Melzie — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 15:00:39 GMT

@gewisse wrote:
Have you heard of ravelry.com? It's the largest site for knit and crochet, it's free and offers more nformation than any site.

Yes, I belong to that too. It just bugs me that I can't get a straight answer from Annie's. If they stopped sending the emails that's fine but all they have to do is tell me that. Instead they try to put the blame on me. I must have done something to prevent the sale emails from arriving yet I get CS emails, I get order acknowledgements, I get pattern downloads, I get "thank you for your order" emails but no sale emails. Then they stopped responding to me altogether. It's almost as if they have a problem but don't know how to fix it so they just ignore me until I go away, which I will eventually. Guess they don't want my business anymore. Thanks for the Ravely suggestion. Appreciated.

Re: Question for Any Crocheters/Knitters

Melzie — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 15:17:37 GMT

@sydsgma1 wrote:
I receive something in my email every day from them .you might want to try setting up a new account by cancelling your current one and starting over.

AH HA!!! This is the reply I was hoping to get. Now I know that they are still sending these emails out on a regualar basis but just not to my address! Thank you, thank you, thank you for this reply! At least I know I'm not crazy or being unreasonable when I contact them.

I've tried to set up another account but every time I try to do that I get a message that I can't because of the IP address or something. It's very odd. Plus, I have a ton of stuff in my Library and I'm afraid of losing it. But, again, thank you for this information as it confirms what I thought was the case but had no way to verify it.