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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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.

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Yeah, this is one of the few cases where going a bit Karen is called for. Fucking marketers.

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

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And report the email as spam on Gmail

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

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

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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.

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This also wastes OPs time though

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Pay me enough, and I’ll waste everyone’s time. Wait…

Did I just reinvent lobbying?

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On top of that, it also doesn’t waste the responsible team’s time. It wastes the help desk’s time who have little to no say in this subject.

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That’s why you escalate straight to legal. Waste the time of someone more expensive than the idiots in marketing.

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time is just a construct

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Not if you automate it!

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And op won’t even be getting paid to do it

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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Gotta go for the short term gains, babyeeeee!

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

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Yeah, it’s silly.

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

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