How to piss me off
So this company which doesn't deserve to be mentionned by name here really pissed me off last week. I`m already fed up with the different email spams I get from them on, apart from that lots of people try to phish me into giving away my unexisting username and password for that company ,but last week they really went over the line. The send a big package to my office address with some papers in it and some rubbish.
Apart from the fact that I never asked for their spam they were so stupid to send it in the wrong language. Yes they send me their rubbish in French, now I have no problem with people sending me stuff in English, but if you want to localise please do it correct, Belgium has 3 official languages, and my native language is not French ! So most often you're better of sending stuff in English.
This reminds me of the Novell, "We speak your language" campaign, maybe the same spam database has been used , as with the Novell campaign about 3 years ago I also was addressed in the wrong language.
Now to top the annoyancy the sent a usefull headset with their package, it would have been the only part from the package that didn't live in the trashbin yet if it would have survived the 20 minute car trip in my laptop bag to a customer. It didn't.
So to all you stupid marketeers, here are some valuable lessons.
- Don't spam me,
- Address me in my own language or English ,
- If you send me gadgets, presents, make sure they don't break before I can actually use them.