Something strange just happened.

In December, I bought some sports memorabilia for my brother from Fanatics.com.

Since then, I've been inundated with #marketing #spam emails for the team that was branded on the item I bought, from multiple companies, mostly #Ticketmaster (who I've never done business with).

Today, I filled out a survey sent to me by Fanatics. I chose "Other" as the reason I'd rate them 0/10, and then typed in the box that they spammed me and I was reporting them to the #FTC (which I am, because the unsubscribe links don't even work).

I was then taken to a page that informed me that I was automatically being removed from all marketing lists based on my response... which was free-form text entered into a box.

In my mind, that would seem to indicate they know what they're doing is so wrong and illegal that they specifically wrote algorithms to look for related words (maybe "spam" or "FTC"), instead of offering "Marketing Emails" as a direct choice (remember, I had to choose "other" to enter this). So, they're concealing their wrongdoing too.

Anyway, I don't think any of this is #illegal, but it is #shady as fuck, so maybe don't ever do any business with #Fanatics