> She would see 'sign up now for 20% off!' and smile! like it positively hit her like she just won the lottery

If you intend to purchase an item from the merchant anyway, why would you pass on 20% off?

I sign up for newsletters to get a discount then immediately unsubscribe. If merchants are going to offer a discount for me to input my email, copy the code they email me, and GMail unsubscribe why would I turn that down?

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josefx 37 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> If you intend to purchase an item from the merchant anyway, why would you pass on 20% off?

Most discounts I run into seem to be based on incredibly inflated pricess to begin with. If a shop offers me a 20% discount on something it is often cheaper to buy it somewhere else.

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kevin_thibedeau an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This sort of person is a spend-a-holic. They use "sales" as an excuse to engage in unnecessary discretionary spending.

	▲	SoftTalker 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		LOL yes I had a friend who would buy stuff because it was on sale and talk about how much money he "saved." I would always ask "do you have more or less money now?"

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loloquwowndueo 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Because once they have your email and can link it to your identity via your purchase details they’re going to sell that list to some marketer sleazeball and you’ll get spam from other sources until the end of time?

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thrill 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

“you’ll get spam from other sources until the end of time?”

So … ops normal?

	▲	loloquwowndueo 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Hah you got me there.

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lkbm 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've signed up for plenty of these lists with per-site emails, and it's very rare for me to end up getting email from anyone but the list I signed up for. Might be different when shopping on international sites (though I doubt it's worse in the EU), but in the US, sites generally don't sell your email. More likely they'll leak it accidentally.

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wat10000 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

My email has been out there for 25+ years now. Filtering has been able to handle it for all but the first couple of years of that period.