The BIG Kahuna

A Letter To Vendorseek.com and Ken Wisnefski – Stop Spamming

Many years ago my company tried your service with little to no results. Eventually we gave up on Vendorseek because of bad leads and poor service. Since we left you have made it a point to not lose contact with Brand Identity Guru.

For years you’ve had new rep after new rep send me emails. And for years I have asked to be removed from your email list. Once I ask to be removed it now becomes spam. So for two years Vendorseek has been spamming us.

On April 21st I received another spam email from a new rep:

Hello,

I wanted to take a moment of your time to inform you that VendorSeek.com has greatly expanded our efforts in the Direct Mail Services category. Do to these changes; we have seen a significant increase in the volume of leads we are processing in this category.

I would welcome the opportunity to discuss with you in more detail about how VendorSeek.com can help grow your business through our qualified leads.

Feel free to reach me directly at

Mark Bergstrom

mberg@vendorseek.com

-www.vendorseek.com

I replied to Mark and he confirmed I would not be spammed again. I also emailed Anthony (your PR person) the same day (see below):

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From:Scott White [mailto:swhite@brandidentityguru.com]
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 1:39 PM
To:‘Anthony@vendorseek.com’
Cc:‘mberg@vendorseek.com’
Subject: Public Relations
Importance: High

I have been getting spammed by your company since I stopped giving you business YEARS ago. I’ve asked dozens of times for removal and every new spammer rep says no problem. Just the other day this guy spammed me yet again and I once again asked to be removed. What will it take to remove me? Is this how you treat past clients? Do you not think that spam is bad? Do you think I’ll ever WANT to do business with you again knowing that you could obviously care less?

Anthony did not respond to my request. Now today I receive this spam email from yet another rep:

From:tconnell@vendorseek.com [mailto:tconnell@vendorseek.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:45 AM
To:sales@brandidentityguru.com
Subject: SEO

Hi,

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I wanted to inquire regarding your potential interest in joining the VendorSeek.com Approved Vendor Network. We currently receive over 500 requests per month for SEO services. We have a need for an additional vendor to join us in this category. I would be happy to provide you with more details on our program. Are you available to speak today?

Thanks,

Tom Connell

Sales Representative
856-380-8815
tconnell@vendorseek.com
-www.vendorseek.com ?

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So now you are spamming two emails that we own. It’s hard to imagine that past clients return to you given your totally disregard for the spam act. Not only is it frustrating it’s just down right rude.

Here’s how I will forever remember Vendorseek: Bad product and service and harrasing. Your brand image is everything, maybe you should consider that in your internet policies and procedures.

Just spoke with Erica at Vendorseek. Let’s see what she can do.

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3 Responses to “A Letter To Vendorseek.com and Ken Wisnefski – Stop Spamming”

1. BIG Kahuna Says:
   April 30th, 2008 at 12:25 pm

   From: Scott White [mailto:swhite@brandidentityguru.com]
   Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:23 PM
   To: ‘mberg@vendorseek.com’; ‘erica@vendorseek.com’; ‘Anthony@vendorseek.com’; ‘tconnell@vendorseek.com’
   Subject: Your Constant Harassment
   Importance: High

   I’ve posted a letter to Ken Wisnefski on our blog here: http://www.brandidentityguru.com/wordpress/. We are one of the nations leading branding companies (been in business 20 years) and receive thousands of visits each and every day from top executives to our blog. I would suggest you stop spamming our emails as requested for the last two years. I am not and will never be interested in returning to you as a client.

   Best Regards,

   Scott White/BIG Kahuna
   Brand Identity Guru Inc.

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2. BIG Kahuna Says:
   April 30th, 2008 at 1:15 pm

   From: erica@vendorseek.com [mailto:erica@vendorseek.com]
   Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 1:07 PM
   To: ‘Scott White’; mberg@vendorseek.com; Anthony@vendorseek.com; tconnell@vendorseek.com
   Subject: RE: Your Constant Harassment

   Hi Scott,

   The first email was received from you requesting to remove your email address from our database was on 4/21/08. We promptly removed the email addresses we had on file for you: swhite@brandidentityguru.com, swhitey@comcast.net, from our database. I confirmed this with our technical department. You will not receive any additional emails to those addresses from VendorSeek.com.

   The email you received from tconnell@vendorseek.com today was sent to the email address listed on your website: sales@brandidentityguru.com. Our sales team reaches out to companies listed on the internet to inquire if they would like to use our service.

   They don’t even know they are spamming? You can’t go around obtaining email addresses from websites and then email them. That’s called spam. What is wrong with these companies?

3. Doug Says:
   November 4th, 2008 at 11:46 am

   We have the same problems. Vendorseek has terrible service no leads and harrassment issues. I would never recommend this company to anyone.

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