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MikeBz 
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 Topic: Scam spamPosted: 20 Jan 13 at 12:22am |
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Do Y&Y know they are spamming us with an unfeasibly profitable container-buying scam?
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furtive
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Posted: 20 Jan 13 at 2:25am |
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It was a "news" story on the front page a few days ago, so I suspect that they do...
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alstorer
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Posted: 20 Jan 13 at 12:20pm |
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This story? Does seem exceptionally dodgy
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MerlinMags
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Posted: 20 Jan 13 at 3:49pm |
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This is a legitimate advertiser. We do have a variety of different companies, from time to time, with banner adverts and press releases on the site. Most are sailing-related I know.
All this advertising then pays for the site to keep going, hurrah!
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Lukepiewalker
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Posted: 20 Jan 13 at 4:41pm |
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Yeah but on the site and in my email are subtly different...
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alstorer
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Posted: 20 Jan 13 at 7:02pm |
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Entirely understood that the advertising is needed to run the site, but a little bit of searching brings up a lot of suspicion and "go careful" articles like this
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MikeBz
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Posted: 22 Jan 13 at 6:12pm |
I perfectly understand that advertisers pay for the site, but to my knowledge it's the first time I've been emailed an advertisement (of arguably dubious integrity). I have my settings set to "Receive emails from Yachts and Yachting" but if this means I will receive emails whose purpose is purely to propagate 3rd party adverts then I will switch the option off (which I don't really want to do).
Mike
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MerlinMags
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Posted: 22 Jan 13 at 6:23pm |
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In your forum settings you should see two tickboxes - mail from Y&Y, and mail from 3rd parties. The usual sort of thing.
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MattK
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Posted: 22 Jan 13 at 10:31pm |
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Mine is and always has been set to NO for third parties, and i got the message twice
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MikeBz
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Posted: 22 Jan 13 at 11:14pm |
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Mine is and always has been set to 'no' for email from 3rd parties. I'm guessing this was a one-off error/bug as it is the first time it's happened.
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