Dealbook.ie - How rude!

So, last week, I was the proud recipient of a piece of unsolicited commercial mail from a new company called dealbook.ie, one of the several million Groupon-y things launched in the last month or so. So, according to The Twitter, did many other people. I, in common with all normal people, don't care for unsolicited commercial email, so I was a bit miffed.

The odd thing about it was that I was addressed as "Dear Robert", and it apparently knew I was male, presenting this charming bit of sexism:

We have a section for him and a section for her, so you won't need to be bothered by the girly stuff.

The interesting thing about this is that it indicates that they got my name and email, and probably gender, from some list or other. I was understandably fascinated to see what list I was on that was being used by random companies for commercial email, so emailed and asked. A week later, no response.

I think, really, if you're going to send people unsolicited commercial mail, the very least you can do is answer them when they try to find out where the hell you got their details. Most unimpressed.

A quick search of my email indicates that it's actually not the first mail I've had from them, either; the previous one was sent using a different bulk mailing solution, mere days after the company was registered.