My last order was from 1/5/04 and I had a spam problem also. I do the same and make a unique e-mail for each site from one of my domains. I don’t recall ever getting as bombarded as you, but it looks like I set that address to bounce at the beginning of July ’08 and changed the e-mail on file with RPGNow. After a year and a half, I don’t recall ever receiving a single spam to the new address on file. I’ve got a feeling it was probably some malware harvesting addresses or something like that.

I’d say now is a great time to give them another shot. I wasn’t boycotting due to the spam, I just haven’t been playing any pen and paper RPGs for years. Maybe looking over these new acquisitions will inspire me to dust everything off and start playing again.

I was already planning on making a donation to the Red Cross Haiti Relief fund at work today, but hearing about this brought such a huge grin to my face! Seriously, Wow!!! For so many publishers to throw down like that–and so quickly to boot–what a showing of gamers ready to go! And because we know how hard you guys work to get each and every potential PDF/print sale, your donation today means so much more than the $20 that we each tossed in.

So the DWoB got my $20 via DTRPG (though it’s hard to see it as a donation for me when I end up with so many interesting books and resources to explore). The Red Cross still got my check at lunch. And because I was in such a damned generous mood all day–and even though my gaming budget’s been on hiatus longer than I care to admit–I wandered over to the Evil Hat store tonight and ordered me a little SotC Print+PDF action as an expression of thanks to gamers who work hard to live the dream and aren’t afraid to be selfless while doing it.

As of writing this, the Gamers Help Haiti count is already over $40k; here’s to hoping the rest of those 2,000+ gamers also find a new publisher to support amidst the Mega Bundle!

I feel a little bad for someone who really just wants to buy a copy of some random product today. The best part of eBooks, instant gratification, is denied.

I guess this is a good opportunity to run a second experiment and see what happens.

Like Fred, I get spam on unadvertised accounts. I think it speaks more to the spammers’ abilities than anything else.

I’d be inclined to call fluke, but I’m inclined to be charitable, so, grain of salt.

So I’ve avoided RPGNow since I made purchase years ago and ever since I’ve received mountains of spam (104 in the last 30 days) on the email address that was created just for them and no one else had.

So was that a fluke or in the past or does RPGNow sell email addresses to spammers?

I’d like to be able buy stuff from them, but I can’t in conscience support a company that enables spammers. Is this experience unique to me?