• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    I don’t know how well it would work in practice, but every time I see something like this, the darker, more childish part of my brain wants me to send a human shit to them in the post, with a note saying “Thank you for subscribing to Post-me-a-poo (Daily)! To cancel your subscription, please add a ‘Cancel Subscription’ button to your website!”.

    • UnD3Rgr0uNDCL0wN@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Every week I used to get spammy, trashy letters from a credit card firm. I had no desire to have one of their 40% APR cards. 52 letters a year. Got a bit sick of it in the end and noticed prepaid envelopes in there so started filling them with prawns and banana peel. The envelope was the type that takes over a week in the UK mail, so by the time they got them back they were rancid. After a while the letters stopped dont know if it was due to my effort or not.

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        1 year ago

        Hahahaha. I fully laughed out loud. That’s brilliant. Prawns is full on evil, but they deserve it. Your act of petty vengeance has probably made my day. Thanks! :)

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          1 year ago

          TB I kind of regret it a bit. I probably subjected the postman and low paid staff to it more than the people responsible.

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            1 year ago

            Sadly you’re probably right - same as shouting at a company over the phone, it’s most likely some poor minimum wage worker actually dealing with it all.

            So I guess the correct thing to do is to track down the personal home address of the boss.

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      1 year ago

      Just send them invoices for your time to their AP department to see how tight their payment controls are…

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        1 year ago

        I’d be surprised if these places are any good with paying their actual invoices, let alone fake ones

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        1 year ago

        I have actually threatened this before to some shitty scam company that kept phoning me during work hours - I never went through with it in the end though, because I’m a massive coward and I’m frightened of negative consequences.

        But in a parallel universe, I stuck it to them bastards :)