Don’t bother people who are not your users
I just got a message from Yahoo letting me know that they’ll be shutting down the Yahoo Photos service soon.
The stated purpose of which was to let me know that I need to take out the pictures I stored in Yahoo Photos and move them elsewhere.
Except that, well, I don’t have any pictures in Yahoo Photos.
I tested it a while back. Once. I just put a couple of pictures there, saw the behaviour, and then removed the pictures.
Haven’t used the service in over a year, I believe.
And in any case, I don’t have any picture there. When I tried to follow their link to go to my pictures, just to verify, it didn’t show me any picture either.
So I know I’m not using the Yahoo Photos service. And Yahoo knows I’m not using the Yahoo Photos service. In this case, what exactly was the point in their email?
August 29th, 2007 at 12:22 EET | Categories: Business, Marketing, Spam |
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October 2nd, 2007 at 23:48
I’m totally in agreement.
Hi btw ::waves:: Long time no see.
Anyways, I can top that.
About a year and a half ago I decided to start my own Yahoo! group. Fine, I started one (which_we_call_a_rose), made a nice picture for the starting page, RL got in the way and I totally forgot about it.
Last week a friend of mine (yes, that would be Kay) came over to watch the CSI´s last season finale & this season starter. My computer pretty much went into a coma. I tried to reset it and it totally went bezerk. In other words, it went Poof!
Now, it´s been repaired, (thanks Dad) and I´ve been looking through old files I, thankfully, parked on my external hard-drive, and I came upon my ‘favorite links’ file. Among which I found the link to my Yahoo! group. My reaction: "Oh… do I still got that? Hmm… let’s check…" So I click on the link, the site opens, I log in…: And the freaking thing asks me if I want to join. Join? It’s my freaking group?! What do I have to join for?!!!!
So now my "membership is awaiting approval by the group owner". Which is me… Yahoo! logics.. ain’t it…
Rose
October 8th, 2007 at 20:56
Hi Rose!
Great to hear from you. :-)
Good story.
So… did you approve your membership, or do you know yourself well enough to know you don’t want you anywhere in your group? ;-)
October 23rd, 2007 at 0:15
Well, I never got a mail in my inbox saying I wanted to join. So I think I’m gonna have to mail the Yahoo! helpdesk about this strange phenomenon ;p
Rose