{"id":1951,"date":"2011-02-10T15:09:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T23:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2025-06-17T19:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T23:44:16","slug":"unsubscribe-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2011\/02\/unsubscribe-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsubscribe FAIL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently started getting a lot of emails from Neiman Marcus, so I clicked on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of one of them. The link goes to a page-long form, which ends with this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"518\" height=\"152\" src=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/unsubscribe-1.png\" alt=\"You are currently subscribed to the email lists below. If you would prefer to not receive the following emails, please uncheck the appropriate box(es) and click 'Unsubscribe' \" class=\"wp-image-1952\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/unsubscribe-1.png 518w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/unsubscribe-1-300x88.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Quick! What am I supposed to do? I saw a checkbox (preselected) next to NeimanMarcus.com and an unsubscribe button, so I clicked the button. I then saw this message:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"518\" height=\"106\" src=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/unsubscribed-1.png\" alt=\"We\u2019re sorry to see you go. You will no longer receive e-mails from NeimanMarcus.com and Neiman Marcus Stores.\" class=\"wp-image-1953\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/unsubscribed-1.png 518w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/unsubscribed-1-300x61.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ok, cool. I&#8217;ll no longer receive emails from NeimanMarcus.com. Guess what happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today when I got even more email from them, I took a closer look at the form. In order to unsubscribe, I&#8217;m supposed to <em>uncheck<\/em> the box next to the thing I want to unsubscribe from, and then click the button that says &#8220;Unsubscribe&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s like saying, &#8220;If you&#8217;d like me to stop punching you in the face, say &#8216;No.&#8217; Would you like me to stop punching you?&#8221; And then when you say &#8220;Yes,&#8221; I&#8217;ll say, &#8220;Okay, I&#8217;ll stop.&#8221; And then punch you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently started getting a lot of emails from Neiman Marcus, so I clicked on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of one of them. The link goes to a page-long form, which ends with this: Quick! What am I supposed to do? I saw a checkbox (preselected) next to NeimanMarcus.com and an unsubscribe button, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2011\/02\/unsubscribe-fail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unsubscribe FAIL<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annoying-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3476,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions\/3476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}