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Corporate Sector => What are Amazon doing now? [Public] => Topic started by: garygibsonsf on May 27, 2019, 05:27:36 PM
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Has anyone else been contacted directly by Amazon Advertising offering to speak to you one-on-one in a phone call with the intention of helping you increase sales?
The email is valid - [email protected]. The reason I'm posting here is I replied instantly suggesting a time they could call. Except they never did, nor did they when I sent a follow-up call. Why on Earth contact me, then ghost me? Anyone else had this happen?
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Did you check the URL in the status bar at the bottom of the screen when you moused over it or did you just read the link text in the message? I'm assuming you checked the address at the bottom of the screen, but I am just asking to knock down one theory.
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All the links, etc in the email are legit, I can say that much.
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I had a similar experience, except I think I accidentally messed up the timing. But the Amazon UK rep never replied to my email wanting to set up a different time. It was real enough. Since I'd done enough testing of the UK ads already, I shrugged it off. I already had enough data to proceed.
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I had a similar email last year but ignored it. Whatever they wanted to say in a phone call they could just as easily say in an email.
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Amazon in the UK does that. They reached out to me when I opened my account. I emailed them a question and told them I'd rather do it in writing than on the phone and never heard back from them.
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For the hell of it I tried writing back a third time and they said they called and never got an answer, which is possible, since I'm in the Far East and there's no guarantee the call will go through. But I at least know they _tried_. I'll write back and ask whether email is at least possible, or maybe skype.
What's the fixation with phone calls, which is kind of 20th Century for a company like Amazon?
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Sales people often have daily call quotas to meet.
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What's the fixation with phone calls, which is kind of 20th Century for a company like Amazon?
It's easy for you to ignore a sales pitch in an email. I do it all the time. It's a bit harder, though not impossible, to ignore one when someone is on the phone with you.