BiggerPockets

I am guessing I get 5-10 per week. I try to unsubscribe for stuff as much as possible, but it is difficult to do from my Blackberry on the road.

I bet I get thousands of pieces of junk mail each week to go with them!

I have had 11 in the past 24 hours.

Of course I opted in to get a tip for free, then I never unsubscribe. I have learned some things from their emails though. I mean besides how to be a good hypnotic copywriter.

Too damn many is the right answer - luckily my spam filter serves me welll in catching them so I don't have to experience the dread of resding each of them.

But even worse is the fact that the other forms of spam (unsolicited ads for watches, male enlargement, pharmaceuticals, etc) show a marked increase after any time I have "subscribed" to some pitchman's new "offering". Spam filter to the rescue on these too.

Hey Joshua,

I get a ton, but I recognize that it is my fault for opting in. I guess you put up with a lot of pitches & hype for the occasional nugget of wisdom that you glean. Just gotta wear the thigh-high boots, as it can get pretty deep :)

95% of the time, when I give up my email address in exchange for "information" or something free", it is a BIG red flag for me to expect my address to be spammed forever by the advertiser & whomever he shares my address with. I don't want that crap in my inbox that might make me miss seeing something important.

So, I ALWAYS use a throw-away email address for that stuff and if I never check that email address again for life, so be it.

Of course, I used to give my "primary" email address as they commonly ask for, but when it started to get crazy, I put a halt to it. It amazes me how marketers believe that's the smartest way to market. Because it is impossible for any stranger to have anything HELPFUL to say to me every freakin day.

I just checked one of my throw-away addresses set up just for real estate and it looks like about 10-15/day come in. Larry Goins sent 4 emails on April 19. Unbelievable.

When someone sends too many emails, whatever little trust I once had is considerably diminished - and that's putting it mildly.

Ahhh, so THAT's the key skill I've been lacking all this time! :mrgreen:

As to the question, I rarely get any. Probably because I haven't signed up with a bunch of web sites for their crap. The last time I did, a long time ago, it was with one of Peter Conti's web sites. Fortunately, I used a disposable e-mail address. Sure enough, after a couple of weeks, I started getting spam to that address, so I deleted it.

OTOH, I probably get pitched something about 2-3 times a month on Facebook. I find this almost unavoidable as I maintain a network with several real estate investors and professionals on the site.

I get my fair share but mostly because I opted - in. What's interesting is that I opt-in for 1 particular REI system or product and the GURU tends to use that email for ALL of the products they offer. I'm pretty sure they share my e-mail address with their GURU friends because I miracously get an email for some product that I know I didnt opt-in for.

Pitching a product is fine, but to relentlessly send email with constant, repetitive marketing (typically about the same product) on a daily basis is abusive.

This process used to work fine. I give up my email address in return for a product pitch, but not for email abuse. Lately, marketers' greed is overwhelming their sense of reason and rationality.

Actually, I think the real gurus have black-balled me! But there are some members that spam me about how to do options, I think the seller finance guy gave up trying to get me to order anything. They go to my spam which is emptied in bulk. So, about 5 a week I guess.

I get about seven.