by inserting their email addresses into completed orders and telling customers to contact them directly. Wanna hear it?
Yes, please. I want to hear all about it. Especially about me colluding with others and poaching customers. Although I indicated in a previous post that I wouldn't respond to you anymore, since I received an email regarding this issue today from a company with which I've had a long-term relationship, I felt it needed airing.
I'm not sure how my private and personal correspondence is ending up in your hands, but here's what I wrote back to the company in response to the following email:
Dear Alan,
Please stop providing customers with your direct contact information.
This is a clear violation of our terms and conditions and is a direct
way to solicit customers from going around our back to hire you for
their orders. We are not accusing you of anything just telling you this
needs to end. We see in mostly all the papers you provide you are
including the following "You can contact me at aol.com, or
through the customer service board in the future Best regards, A.
West." This needs to end immediately as we will be scanning your
completed orders to make sure this does not occur anymore.
In response to this email, I wrote back:
email no. 1
Dear ____,
I haven't done this in a million years, but I'm make sure it doesn't happen again. In fact, I can't remember doing this at all except in a couple of isolated instances long ago. The current writers' board won't let you include this information so I don't know where you found that reference, but as I say, I won't do it ever again.
Best regards,
Alan
email no. 2 (since it was still bothering me):
Dear _____,
If you have a chance, please share with me any of these examples that I've used any time recently. Like I say, I may have included this information in some isolated instances in the past, but this was likely with your permission. In fact, I haven't given out my email address to any [of yours] customers without your permission to my knowledge, and if I did, I apologize. In fact, I've informed you on the two occasions when [your] customers contacted me privately in order to avoid going through the company. I've been loyal and true.
I don't understand. Like I say, I haven't included this information at all in any of my papers in a long long time, and certainly not "most" of them like you are saying for years.
None of my papers have included this information -- at least to my knowledge. I don't understand.
Best regards,
Alan
We see in mostly all the papers you provide you are
including the following "You can contact me at aol.com"
and finally, email no. 3 because I remembered something else:
email no. 3:
Dear ___,
To my best recollection, I haven't used "A. West" in ages either. I just sign "Alan" anymore.
Best regards,
Alan
As I stated above, I'm not sure how my personal and private correspondence is ending up in your hands, but it is disturbing which is probably what you intended. I haven't heard back from the recipient but this hurt my feelings.