Re:Ask HN: How does one identify markets and their sizes?
by paulcole on Saturday February 03, 2018 @10:03PM
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Pardon my ignorance but why do you call it spamming when you contacted them first?
Re:Ask HN: How does one identify markets and their sizes?
by gt_ on Sunday February 04, 2018 @02:21PM
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I guess I have a different definition, or at least a different threshold, for what I consider spam. This particular situation was not extreme but I still consider it spam. They continued emailing me around twice per month with the same offer despite me having been perfectly clear on at least two occasions that I was not interested. They did this for 14 months before giving up. I received another message at the 2 year mark that was an actual release announcement, which I do not consider spam.
The last time I tried to do this, I exhausted everything I could find on the internet and was still very short. I was researching a major professional user software sector and my only option at this point was an annual report sold by a private firm for around $4,000/year. They seemed open to bids but did not accept my extremely low ones. They did keep spamming me for a while, though. I never could tell if this was going to be legitimate. I wasn’t able to find reviews of the firm’s services, and even if I could have afforded it, I expect I would have been too suspicious to follow through.