That was email when it started wasn’t it? All lovely and exciting. Nowadays it’s become a different story.
I’ve written before about the amount of spam my first hotmail account had and how I’m now careful what I sign up for. And, yes, the constant sales pitches for Viagra and free iPods and rocket powered trousers don’t seem to trouble my new email anymore.
But what does make up 90% of my mail these days is offers. Now, that would be a good thing – I like 50% off food (which is what most of them are about) but I’m getting almost daily reminders that I can eat my own weight in chicken at Nandos AND get a free drink. Every other day Pizza Express tell me that if I eat some food then it’ll only cost half the price (although they don’t mention it costs approximately £29 for two drinks to go with it). And I’m fed up hearing that a Debenhams sale has some things at almost 70% off – yes, 70% off very cheap things.
To be honest, I’m getting a bit annoyed.
The annoyance comes because now I can’t make a purchase without first checking if there’s an online code. If I order a pizza over the phone and don’t quote a code I imagine they put down the phone and say “He wants to pay full price!” before falling about laughing in heaps of mozzarella and dough. Same online, “If you have a code, please enter it now” pops up and I’m googling things like ‘discount voucher for underpants purchase’ which leads to 15 mins of fruitless searching and often losing the will to both live and buy pants.
And now, in ‘the real world’, I genuinely worry I’m paying over the odds for everything. It’s like going in a shop and buying something that you know is £5 but giving them a tenner and saying “THIS MUST COST TEN POUNDS” before running out of the place without taking your change.
In short, I feel like an idiot, and there’s seemingly no voucher code that can make that go away.
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