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Wastedtalent wrote: I guess if it wasn't effective they wouldn't bother?
Define "effective".
It is not always about getting more customers, sometimes you simply need to get your name out more than the competition. Hardly matters how much debt that generates, as long as the company survives long enough to pay your bonus.
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PeejayAdams wrote: it really raises a lot of questions
No, it doesn't. We already know that the ROI is not interesting from the amount of advertisements on the web.
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The Nigerians keep sending their emails, too. I suspect they make enough for it to be worthwhile.
Which leads me to wonder if Barclay's has a branch in Nigeria . . .
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How much does an email cost?
You can send a lot of emails for the price of a few kilo's of paper.
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It's the marketing technique that's the point: just keep sending. Charities do the same, sending me a request for money every month - even if I just gave them something - and never noting that for years my donation is a once-a-year event. Lots of name-and-address stickers and pads, too.
Apparently they find it worth it. So why not the banks, too?
Aside: I got the Barclay's Master Card. They're going to pay me US$200 after I spend US$500 in the first three months (rather easy). After I get their money, more bribes or I'm gone.
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If you do not donate this month, you might be able to donate next time. Rather common scenario.
If I do not get a credit card this month, nor any of the following, then it will be an uncommon scenario for me to be waiting for that mail a week later.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Which leads me to wonder if Barclay's has a branch in Nigeria . . .
They have a representative office there, whatever that means...
Barclays Africa Group at a glance
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PeejayAdams wrote: it really raises a lot of questions:
The marketing dept. gets a budget, they contract to a mailing house to do mailings based on some nebulous market research, and nobody actually tracks whether the marketing dept. budget is paying for itself, which it probably isn't.
I doubt that online advertising is any better, and I doubt that companies have any way of tracking whether their ad campaigns are actually profitable.
And if they did, the whole "free online services paid by ads" bubble would burst.
Conversely, I guess sites like Code Project actually makes enough money through ad revenue to keep paying for this wonderful site! Sort of scary / creepy / cool.
Marc
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Ah, but you've missed the point. You're experiencing a bit of marketing excellence (yeah, I threw up in my mouth a little) on the part of the postal service. They've sold innumerable companies on bulk mailing at reduced rates. The more the company mails, the bigger the discount.
Software Zen: delete this;
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The letter in the image has an error, "virginity too" should be "virginity to". It's unlikely that the person responsible for correspondence for such a company would make such a mistake.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: It's unlikely that the person responsible for correspondence for such a company would make such a mistake.
Are you serious? Go to the websites of any UK newspaper (including the Telegraph) and see how many such stupid mistakes get published.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Go to the websites of any UK country on planet earth
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Slacker007 wrote: Go too the websites
FTFY. 
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Aren't you grateful that people text? It's much easier than becoming literate.
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With the Gruaniad, it's easier to count the number of words they get right.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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At first, I was like  , and then after a short while, I was like , again.
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How about a "Goldfinger" DVD? I love that movie - should be worth a lot! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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Or a map of the Gold Coast? That's huge - gotta be worth a fortune!
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Sue them for citing a definition of gold without giving proper reference.
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Send them some of those.[^]
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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It is very easy: send genuine gold like some Krugerrand. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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KarstenK wrote: send genuine gold like some Krugerrand
Where's the fun in that?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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