While normally I speak about design and business related issues – today I’m going to have my say about business ethics.
SPAM emails have become common place in my day to day dealings with the internet, but today I received one that frankly, pissed me off.
The title: Four-year-old Madeleine disappeared from Portuguese holiday resort in May
We all know the story of little Madeleine. I’ve been closely following the story myself, because my daughter carries the same name.
But the email wasn’t a chain letter referring to donations, or an email prompting me to visit a website…no.
This email was promoting VIAGRA.
How the hell does a business think, for a second, that by tricking me into looking at an email that I’ll suddenly go out and buy their product.
Let alone the disgusting tactic of connecting VIAGRA to the story of a missing 4 year old girl.
So the email was able to get through my SPAM filter…Congratulations!
You’ve succeeded in making sure I never buy the product.
I would think that the makers of VIAGRA would be doing everything in their power to stop this sort of situation.
Or does the money they make from using affiliates such as this outweigh a moral sense of evil.
For everyone else…
…If you have a business. Be careful how far you’ll go to make a buck. Simply being being in business doesn’t not give people the right to leave their conscience at the door.
