A Look At Some Of My Hate Mail

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A Look At Some Of My Hate Mail

May 6, 2008

Bomb When you run a website of any kind, especially one that sells a product, getting some degree of mail from unsatisfied people is to be expected.

But when you get the kind of mail I sometimes get, it really makes ya want to stop for a bit and wonder what’s going on here…

Reprint of an actual e-mail letter I received on (of all days) Christmas from “bob” (obviously fake) from an e-mail address that was also fake:

“You are a FUCKING scam artist…a snake oil salesman…I hope your dick rots off, scumbag. I hope you’re happy to have wasted my time…why should i pay an asshole like you to get rid of this fuckin’ virus? I can just let my insurance pay for another asshole to give me some goddamned snake oil cure.

I am sending every BLACK thought your way in the hopes that you will DROP DEAD and rid the world of one more LOSER.

FUCK OFF DICKWAD…”

End quote.

Nice guy, huh? I really should remember to buy him a card or something. And you know what the funny thing is? This guy didn’t even BUY my product! Nope. He just up and decided to send me his “blackest” without even knowing who I am or trying what I sell.

Some people out there are fucking crazy. Take this letter I got on November 8th, as another example:

“well first of all you could say that there 6 people out of 726 that it didnt help and you dont know why well you are lying and everyone is thinking surely i wouldnt be one of them people and it comes to find out it really isnt helping no one, im not stupid you are a fraud and i will report you!! it doesnt work you have already took my money and i have almost got my page going to let everyone no how fake the stuff you say works is ive also hired a lawyer and plan on getting this stuff solved with you.”

Oooh. I’m scared. “dr.smith” hired a lawyer and is gonna come and get me! Help! And that webpage he/she has “almost got going” is surely to drive me out of business for sure, for sure.

This elegant e-mail came from a “dr.smith” (exactly as printed, lowercase, poor grammar, punctuation, and all.) Obviously fake, and was also from a fake e-mail address.

Yet another coward hiding behind fake names and e-mail addresses, who never even bought from me, cussing me out for no real reason whatsoever.

Seriously now, the morons who sent these two e-mails must think I’m pretty stupid not to be able to tell what’s what. I can do traces on them and also look up order histories in mere seconds. Who do they think they’re fooling anyway?

Well, let me tell you there have been over a couple thousand people buy the particular product these e-mails were about and almost everyone has been happy. I get rave reviews on it all the time… but… every once in awhile one of these statistical anomalies rears its ugly head in a very weird way.

Oh well. Moving on…

This next one wasn’t hate mail, and I don’t think I have the original e-mail to quote from anymore, but I want to share it with you just the same. It came from a guy in Canada who sent me an e-mail saying he bought something I sell but never received it.

So… I e-mailed him back saying I would gladly replace it if I could only get his info so I could look up his order. He e-mailed me back a receipt from Paypal that “clearly showed his proof of purchase.”

Except for one thing… after looking at it for a minute and doing a little research on eBay (it had an eBay item number on it), certain things didn’t look quite right and I could see it was a forgery he made in Photoshop or some other graphics program using a receipt he got for buying jeans from another guy in Canada!

Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!

Ah, whatever. This kind of thing happens so often, I should be used to it by now. But… I’m not. Things like this still surprise me and make me shake my head.

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