Spam PM's...

MastyrOfPuppitz · 2018-04-28T13:49:51.000Z

Anyone else get spam personal messages from a manufacturer? I don’t really care to get pm’s when a manufacturer comes out with a new flashlight…

hIKARInoob · 2018-04-28T14:05:53.000Z

I have as well. I’m hoping Acebeam will spam PM me asking me if I want to do a review of the X70.
Generally it doesn’t bother me, except the lights are often boring.

atbglenn · 2018-04-28T14:52:43.000Z

Yes, and I don’t like it at all. I immediately put them on my block list.

sb56637 · 2018-04-28T15:00:00.000Z

Please send me a PM when this happens. It’s prohibited, and will result in an immediate ban of the account, as explained in the rules for commercial sellers:
http://budgetlightforum.com/forum/misc/commercial

The only exception is that occasionally a company contacts me first requesting reviewers of free samples. In that case I usually give them permission to contact a few reviewers of their choice. But to simply offer a new product without the user having requested a PM notification is completely prohibited.

CM2010 · 2018-04-28T15:00:52.000Z

Never had any, yet.

MascaratumB · 2018-04-28T15:13:23.000Z

sb56637:

Please send me a PM when this happens. It’s prohibited, and will result in an immediate ban of the account, as explained in the rules for commercial sellers:
Commercial Sellers - BudgetLightForum.com

The only exception is that occasionally a company contacts me first requesting reviewers of free samples. In that case I usually give them permission to contact a few reviewers of their choice. But to simply offer a new product without the user having requested a PM notification is completely prohibited.

It happened to me some time ago. But the member was banned later that week! I didn’t know how to react back then, but then I noticed these specific rules! Thanks sb :+1:

atbglenn · 2018-04-28T15:17:37.000Z

sb56637:

Please send me a PM when this happens. It’s prohibited, and will result in an immediate ban of the account, as explained in the rules for commercial sellers:
Commercial Sellers - BudgetLightForum.com

The only exception is that occasionally a company contacts me first requesting reviewers of free samples. In that case I usually give them permission to contact a few reviewers of their choice. But to simply offer a new product without the user having requested a PM notification is completely prohibited.

I get requests to do reviews. The problem is, I don’t do reviews, and never will because I wouldn’t be very good at it. I don’t like making a fool out of myself.

MastyrOfPuppitz · 2018-04-28T15:22:40.000Z

sb56637:

Please send me a PM when this happens…

Done.

MastyrOfPuppitz · 2018-04-28T15:24:13.000Z

atbglenn:

sb56637:

Please send me a PM when this happens. It’s prohibited, and will result in an immediate ban of the account, as explained in the rules for commercial sellers:
Commercial Sellers - BudgetLightForum.com

The only exception is that occasionally a company contacts me first requesting reviewers of free samples. In that case I usually give them permission to contact a few reviewers of their choice. But to simply offer a new product without the user having requested a PM notification is completely prohibited.

I get requests to do reviews. The problem is, I don’t do reviews, and never will because I wouldn’t be very good at it. I don’t like making a fool out of myself.

That’s what the pm I got was. “New flashlight available to review” with links to Amazon.

Speed4goal · 2018-04-28T15:46:15.000Z

Man y’all are lucky. I never get these pms. Only ones I get is when a manufacturer opens a thread asking for people if they are interested etc

sb56637 · 2018-04-28T16:48:54.000Z

MastyrOfPuppitz:

atbglenn:

sb56637:

Please send me a PM when this happens. It’s prohibited, and will result in an immediate ban of the account, as explained in the rules for commercial sellers:
Commercial Sellers - BudgetLightForum.com

The only exception is that occasionally a company contacts me first requesting reviewers of free samples. In that case I usually give them permission to contact a few reviewers of their choice. But to simply offer a new product without the user having requested a PM notification is completely prohibited.

I get requests to do reviews. The problem is, I don’t do reviews, and never will because I wouldn’t be very good at it. I don’t like making a fool out of myself.

That’s what the pm I got was. “New flashlight available to review” with links to Amazon.

Thanks for letting me know. What they did in this case was offer free review samples to a lot of users. It’s not technically spam, but it definitely could be interpreted as such. I sent the vendor a message warning them to not send large quantities of review offers in the future.

MastyrOfPuppitz · 2018-04-28T22:33:01.000Z

sb56637:

MastyrOfPuppitz:

atbglenn:

sb56637:

Please send me a PM when this happens. It’s prohibited, and will result in an immediate ban of the account, as explained in the rules for commercial sellers:
Commercial Sellers - BudgetLightForum.com

The only exception is that occasionally a company contacts me first requesting reviewers of free samples. In that case I usually give them permission to contact a few reviewers of their choice. But to simply offer a new product without the user having requested a PM notification is completely prohibited.

I get requests to do reviews. The problem is, I don’t do reviews, and never will because I wouldn’t be very good at it. I don’t like making a fool out of myself.

That’s what the pm I got was. “New flashlight available to review” with links to Amazon.

Thanks for letting me know. What they did in this case was offer free review samples to a lot of users. It’s not technically spam, but it definitely could be interpreted as such. I sent the vendor a message warning them to not send large quantities of review offers in the future.

Considering I’ve yet to make a review here, never posted a picture of a single flashlight I own yet, it seemed spam-like to me. There isn’t a single light said company makes that I’d want to own.

On Amazon I don’t do all 5-star ratings, as I am brutally honest with any reviews I make there. Well…there is one I made for a certain name brand spray expanding foam that I was extremely sarcastic on though.

Anyway, I will post pics of my flashlights once this semester is over, and I finish several I have in progress…just FYI.