I know that for many, Newegg is a great place to buy things.
I can no longer in good conscience recommend or advocate using NewEgg as a provider of your computing and electronic needs.
Let me step back a bit, back to August 18th, 2010 and August 30th, 2010 when I received unsolicited email (in this case, pure and outright spam) from Newegg. I had posted this on my personal blog (which doesn’t get much traffic/eyes overall) as I felt it was just a personal issue to deal with.
But today, out of nowhere, one of my employees received unsolicited email from Newegg and the best part? It is pedaling the same small 120GB disk drive that the messages I received in August, 2010!
I have an idea as to the avenue that Newegg is using to gather/borrow/steal/purchase new email addresses and I am not willing to post it publicly at this time, but I can say that salesforce.com is the owner of this breach of trust. I do hope I am wrong as salesforce.com has a decent reputation. But then again, so did Newegg…
And without further adieu – the PDF of the headers…
My personal view: I do not do business with companies that spam and will never do business with Newegg again after the initial round of spam. I’ll now be working internally to make sure that we, as a company, do not use Newegg ever again in the future and advocating to the employees that they boycott Newegg for future purchases as well.
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