correction I still Love Tivo - but i'm not happy with bmw

Maybe you shouldn't have choose this offer from TiVo Central?

 

You sure it wasn't random spam???? They just guessed your email?

I've created an email address before and gave it to NO ONE EVER and it got spam every so often

 

Usually, it is not the company themself that did it, but rather either an employee (personally), or someone "got ahold" of some addresses.

I recently started getting some spam to an Amazon-only address I have, and have had for many years with no spam.

Worse yet, some losers in Italy and China have recently started spamming PRETENDING TO BE MY OWN DOMAIN NAME

Nothing I can do; I get dozens of "bounced" e-mails daily, and hate-mail to fictitious names on my domain.

So, don't be so quick to blame TiVo...

 

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That's been happening to me since 1996. Once I was reporting a lot of spam through spamcop and I wasn't paying attention and I ended up reporting myself. That was really annoying. I got this weird email from the domain host asking me not to report myself for things I didn't do.

 

A lot of those promos on TiVo central ask if they can send your info to their advertising partner. A couple of clicks and you've opted into this.

 

toocan, I'd like to investigate. We never provide your information to any third parties without your specific permission.

We do have several TiVo Central lead-generation showcases. If you request a brochure or similar, then you are giving us permission to provide your information to the third party (as is indicated on-screen). Not sure if that happened in this case or not, since I'm not familiar with this particular e-mail.

Can you forward me (estephen@tivo.com) the e-mail including headers?

 

Look at Stephen go! That is what I call high class customer service! I think TiVo has programmed a bot to scan these forums for anything negative so they can get a live person on the situation. Reminds me of when I was on my cruise and if you did not eat or stop to breath you had 5 people asking if everything is alright, I feel the same way on here, if I have a problem TiVo will jump to help solve it. A+++ guys!

 

Since Stephen didn't mention it and you asked, Tivo's policies can be found at tivo.com/policy.

/edit: The relevent document would be "TiVo Service Agreement".

 

that was a class act to change the subject line and really interact with the communication within the thread. Many post a rant and then stop listening. Not you though A+++ as well for you.

 

Set your default mail handler to fail or blackhole any mail addressed to a non-existant email address. Very easy to do on most web hosts.

I bounce that kind of stuff before I let it hit my mailboxes.

 

For whatever it's worth, I've accepted *every* offer I've seen on TiVo... never know when something might be blogable. I've never seen that BMW email.

 

Why don't you give BMW card a try? I'm using GM card with similar deal (every time I use it I get 5% toward GM car purchase) and over the years I saved at least $20,000. It works just like cash - after you negotiated everything you can use your CC credits toward price of the car. Of course if you don't like BMW, this offer doesn't do you any good, use your TiVo CC instead.