In September, I started poking around for a new gym bag. I considered one from Nobull, an athletics company that seems to be gaining traction. Before deciding against buying the bag, I created an account using one of my actual e-mail addresses.
It didn't take me long to realize I had made a grievous mistake.
Over the next few weeks, Nobull's marketing department harassed me with dozens of automated and unsolicited messagesโsometimes two per day. I immediately attempted to unsubscribe from its overzealous list to no avail. I then contacted customer service to see if I could change my account's e-mail address, but the rep told me that no one could. That's downright absurd. (I had planned on using a burner one to deflect Nobull's deluge to a zombie account.)
It didn't take me long to realize I had made a grievous mistake.
Game on.
I again contacted Nobull support, urging the company to remove me from its spammy list. Its response, "Sure thing, but it takes 24 hours." Days later, the messages kept coming. In the interim, I wrote a Microsoft Outlook rule deleting all Nobull communications. It worked, but the fact that they now appeared in my Deleted Messages folder still annoyed me. #stubbornness
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