{"id":89767,"date":"2025-07-10T06:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89767"},"modified":"2025-07-10T06:48:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T11:48:00","slug":"unmarketable-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89767","title":{"rendered":"Unmarketable Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It&#8217;s nice that Amazon is so concerned about me, they send me email telling me how to avoid be scammed.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It&#8217;s annoying they send the email to my cell phone at 3:09 am.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I leave my cell phone on overnight in case I get an emergency call: the kids have been in a car accident or a tornado was sighted in our area.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t mind be woken up for that.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0I suppose I could opt out of receiving emails but then I wouldn&#8217;t know when packages were on their way. Is there a setting that says &#8220;send me stupid advertising spam at 6 PM my time&#8221;?\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Not generating much goodwill here,\u00a0 Amazon.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Joe Doakes<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>As someone who tends to work more on the design and engineering side, the jokes about marketeers write themselves.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Or hopefully they do, because I don&#8217;t feel like writing them right now\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: It&#8217;s nice that Amazon is so concerned about me, they send me email telling me how to avoid be scammed. \u00a0 It&#8217;s annoying they send the email to my cell phone at 3:09 am. \u00a0 I leave my cell phone on overnight in case I get an emergency call: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89768,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89767\/revisions\/89768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}