A while back I let a call from an unknown number go to voicemail (as I always do). The message left was from the dealership that sold us our Camry, offering to trade me a 2011 Camry for my 2007 straight up! … oh, and did we forget to mention extending your payments for another few years.
ANYWAY, the other tidbit in the call was that they wanted to confirm my email address: wowcalralberg@gmail.com.
This is going to come as a shock to you, but: that is not my normal email address (even if it is significantly better than my normal address). Now I was faced with a dilemma — in order to give the correct address I would need to return a call and talk to another human (something I seldom do), especially when it’s from a commercial entity.
Long story short – I did, for some reason, feel like I wanted to get email from the dealership though so I took the only logical step: I registered wowcalralberg@gmail.com and set it up to redirect mail to my primary account. Now wowcalralberg not only gets email: he gets email with awesomely informative subject lines and even better sender names:
Oh, and by the way, our best guess on “wowcalralberg” is that it’s a gross misreading of “monicahalberg”… maybe?
