Shoeboxed to My Inbox’s Rescue!
In my 21 years of life, I’ve bought ONE t-shirt from J.Crew online, but in the last two weeks, I’ve received the following e-mails from their online store:
Last Chance for free shipping
Presenting… free shipping
New at Crewcuts… Seaside Chic
Hello sale…
New men’s must-have: the cardigan
Let’s recap why this is annoying. First of all, I don’t need a cardigan, and neither do the rest of you guys out there. Second of all, I’m in Germany, and J. Crew doesn’t even ship here, so I couldn’t care less what their non-existent shipping costs. Third, CrewCuts is the children’s clothing line at J.Crew, and unless there’s something I don’t know about, I’m not buying baby clothes for a while. Though I do like J. Crew otherwise, I hate getting all these irrelevant e-mails in my inbox.
But now that Shoeboxed is up and running, I went to jcrew.com and modified my account settings. In about 20 seconds, I changed the e-mail associated with my account to my @shoeboxed.com address. Now all these store notifications come into my Shoeboxed account. I also one-click-unsubscribed from J.Crew e-mails, causing them to only show up in my Shoeboxed account, and to stay away from my personal inbox.
I still like J. Crew, and I still get those e-mails in my Shoeboxed account, but now I don’t have to have them in my inbox, where all my important personal communications are. My personal inbox is breathing easier, and so am I.
I also did this for all the other stores where I shop (and the stores that send me e-mails even though I don’t buy stuff from them) and changed out my e-mail address.
So now, whenever I’m in the mood to shop, I just go to my Shoeboxed account, see all my new e-mails, check out all the places that are having sales or recommending new products, and start shopping from there.
August 1st, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Oh Dan, every man needs a cardigan. Don’t deny yourself the simple luxury.
August 2nd, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Dan…This was a great blog. It explained one of the great benefits of Shoeboxed in a way that everyone can understand. As a “middle-aged, non-techy consumer” even I could make sense of it. Well done!
August 11th, 2007 at 10:06 am
how is shoeboxed different then from simply signing up for another gmail or hotmail account and use that primarily for shopping? I’m sure the spam filter and privacy protection is better at gmail in any case. Seems an overkill to have a company just for this purpose