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A hostel company I stayed with a while back emailed me with the subject: "Your booking is confirmed!". This made me frantically check all my accounts since I hadn't booked any hostels recently. I was super concerned until I opened the email and saw... it was a stupid marketing email...

This kind of marketing should be illegal. Don't use Clink Hostels.

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[–] Shepy@feddit.uk 156 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Would instantly unsubscribe, leave negative reviews and never stay there again.

[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 57 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And report the email as spam on Gmail

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Op is using ProtonMail, there's a report button there also.

[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I hope Gmail aggregates the reports from other platforms, because most of Clink's target market uses Gmail

[–] mySFWaccount@lemmy.ca 130 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Send a message to their help desk saying you got an email confirmation and would like to cancel it. Act very confused about the situation. Waste their time and make it their problem.

[–] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 56 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Better yet, demand loudly to get a refund. When they say there is nothing to refund, insist that you have an email confirming a booking.

[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Escalate to management as quickly as possible so you're not just annoying some poor front desk worker that had nothing to do with it.

[–] Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago

Call center "management" is typically not an actual manager, and definitely not involved with the decision either.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 123 points 8 months ago

Look up the email for their legal department and demand they cancel all fraudulent bookings under your name. Play dumb a little so they take it up with marketing.

[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 86 points 8 months ago (3 children)

That's a good way for their emails to all get marked as scams. They think they're being slick, but are actually destroying their marketing campaign.

[–] Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works 40 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Gotta go for the short term gains, babyeeeee!

[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 4 points 8 months ago

Get that bonus, apply for jobs elsewhere. Rinse and repeat.

[–] WholeEnchilada@lemmy.today 9 points 8 months ago

Yeah, it's silly.

[–] Basil@lemmings.world 2 points 8 months ago

Literally who the hell is gonna see this and think "ah what the hell?"

[–] ndsvw@feddit.de 75 points 8 months ago

Hey, Clink Hostels.

I want so inform you that a spam mail was sent from your address.

Oh, that was actually you??? 🙄😑 That's embarrassing.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 51 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Time to add their email to your spam filter and not see their emails again.

Time to gpdr your info back from them.

[–] Anti_Face_Weapon@lemmy.world 35 points 8 months ago

Blacklist the company from your emails. They have lost emailing privileges.

[–] SnuggleSnail@ani.social 33 points 8 months ago

Just show up and show them the booking confirmation!

[–] Jessvj93@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago

Companies everywhere are getting desperate I feel like. Google's adblocker crusade being the most egregious imo.

[–] randomTingler@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Your email inbox reads like a Zoomer message thread

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Filter messages like these -> Move to 'Spam'.

[–] Nommer@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Nah. Report it as spam. Still gets moved to your spam folder and if enough people do it, they'll be flagged by default.

[–] Endorkend@kbin.social 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is like how in recent months I've been receiving "your account will be shut down" messages from services I've been using for literal decades, simply because I only use them 2-3 times a year, when they are actually useful to me, rather than regard them as some sort of social media platform.

It's super pathetic attention whoring by companies that lost any sense of what value they bring to their customers.

[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Damn, "removed" is a slur now?

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

lemmy.ml has an AWESOME censorship system. If even say it’s BITCHIN’! Yesterday someone also brought up its kinda sad when you’re on that instance and someone says “this material is fire retardant”

[–] Patches@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The Dark ***ht from Christopher Nolan was a perfect 5/7

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is there an asshole design community on lemmy?

[–] silas@programming.dev 11 points 8 months ago

!assholedesign@lemmy.world

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Always nice to see a fellow ProtonMail user. Wassup fam

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 13 points 8 months ago

Can't be legal

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I get these too.
The best part is that they keep getting added to my Google calendar. I have the option tuned off in my Google account settings, I report them as spam as soon as I get them, but I still get pop up notifications from my Google calendar reminding me of my "trip".

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's because gmail automatically adds .ics files to your calendar. I don't even think there's a way to disable it. I checked and my solution was to not use gmail for those things. For spam emails luckily I don't have this problem

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago

Weird, mine asks me if I want to add things to my calendar still, up by the header, same spot it puts the "is this spam" question box

[–] ndsvw@feddit.de 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Well, they are right with one point: That's embarrassing

[–] WholeEnchilada@lemmy.today 9 points 8 months ago

It makes no sense. They're basically asking you to travel out of your way just to spend money on them. Like, I don't know, a prostitute would. What kind of hostel is this place? It makes no sense as far as marketing goes. Unless it's you know, THAT kind of hostel.

[–] KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

At least it didn't state "Your booking is confirmed for the presidential suite in (insert very expensive hotel and location here)" and make you feel you need to make a lot of phone calls to many different places while trying to figure out what is going on.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

A "Swanky Hostel."

Yup that's a scam email.

[–] Senex@reddthat.com 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Hostile Hostel

[–] Sensitivezombie@lemmy.zip 6 points 8 months ago

Can such marketing tactics be reporting to any appropriate government agency? Better Business Bureau? I know this is not illegal and it should be.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

"My payment has been confirmed via paypal! No? Now you know how I feel."

[–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago

You should regularly book rooms with Thema and cancel the very last poasible second to cause financial harm. At some point they will man you and stop mailing you

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I get physical junk mail that makes it seem like I purchased something, subscribed to something, or signed up for something. It's infuriating to say the least, probably illegal, too.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Same. Similar to those extended warranty scams, you’ll see the disclaimer in teeny tiny print at the bottom of the page on the backside.

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[–] NOOBMASTER@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

Viewbug does same shit like this. Don't use that site.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

swanky new hostel you say?

[–] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

At clink hostel none the less

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