Here come the spammers

Re: 'Social media telemarketing' (Sept. 24)

Dear Editor:

I have to agree with the sentiment Ms. Boardman expresses. It seems like every new wonder is wonderful for awhile. That is, until it is used to inundate us with spam marketing. It is hard to stay one step ahead of the game.

I used to market on Craigslist but have since given up. It was so much of an effort to place a nice HTML marketing page for each of our listings and then delete and update them as permitted by Craigslist. It really didn't do much in the way of getting me any business -- it served as a means to show clients that we were actively marketing their listings.

Then the marketers and spammers started their barrage of e-mails. It was too much to deal with. Additionally, our postings were being misused by people who altered the postings and were trying to pull off scams.

It is a sad state of affairs especially combined with what else we face trying to get our transactions to close.

Doug White
Associate broker, owner
Assist2Sell 1st Advantage Real Estate
Holladay, Utah

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