I first heard about Penny Halgren’s website from our message board here. I checked out her site and thought that it would be helpful to sign up and find out lots of information about quilting. I quickly started receiving messages from her website. At first they were interesting tips about quilting, then the selling messages started coming and coming and coming. Then a new wave of emails came from other websites that are tied to her website started coming, too. I can’t remember the names of the sites, but they were rather numerous.

Some days I would get three and four messages from her and her posse. It started filling up my mail box because I didn’t have time to read them all. Sometimes the mail would have good tips and others would sound like she was going to give good tips but you would find out half way through her lengthy letter that she was selling the tips and instructions.

Finally, I unsubscribed to her emails. At first I heard nothing from her, then one day an email popped up from her and then another and another. I unsubscribed again and the same thing would happen a few months later. I tried calling them to ask them to take me off their list, but they ask you to leave a message, then you find out that their mailbox is too full to take a message. I’ve tried several different times and the voice mail box is always full. This will make the fourth time I have unsubscribed to her website.

Has anyone else had this problem? Did you get it resolved? If so, please let me know how you did it.

AND if you haven’t signed up for her website, please let this be a warning to all…

Thanks for your help and listening to me vent.
Mary Ann

Thanks for the warning.

Had same problem. Seemed like it just turned into a sales pitch not tips.

I always create a rule to delete messages I can't stop from coming. That way they get deleted before they even hit my mailbox.

I didn't know you could do such a thing. How do you do it? Remember you're talking to a very non-tech person. :)

I am curious about how you do that, too. I know that I can and they will go in my spam folder, but I don't know how to automatically delete them.

Thanks in advance for the info.
Mary Ann

mark any messages that you don't want anymore as spam. The computer will automatically send them to the spam folder and delete them after a day or so. you won't see them in your inbox again!

I wondered if it bothered anyone else to read through this lengthy and seemingly promising email and then slowly find out she is selling something (although it may be good....) it then takes another 5 min. of reading to find out the price. Glad to hear it's not just me. Thanks for posting.

Had the same problem with Penny 's site. In the small print at bottom of page is a link to either unsubscribe or "update your account." Followed them & unsubscribed. You can also report her site as spam on some browsers.

Maryann, I could have written your letter. When I started out a few months ago, I ordered her online book for Beginner Quilting and paid $39.00, (which I wish I had back). I soon found out that if you wanted to go further you would end up paying megabucks.
Every e-mail was just a teaser to buy more. I soon found out I could have learned more, from this group or on Yu Tube. I regret the day I wasted my money, and time for this
and am glad I didn't fall for more.
I,m glad you posted this. I was kind of leery of doing it,
because I thought I should not.
I did get the e-mails to stop after a couple of trys.
Hang in there and keep trying or just DELETE.

I will stay away from Penny Halgren.

Who is your email service? Gmail will usually pick up on that kind of spammng and keep it out of sight. You can also mark it as spam on a lot of services so they can keep it out of your inbox for you.

If you delete her name in your contacts folder that should also send them to the recycle bin.

Good Luck

Suzy

I opted out of getting her emails.... yes, I also got TONS of emails from her selling this or that. I don't even go to her site when I see it anymore. I got soured very quickly by it all.

Sometimes I get an email from her that has a tip in it, and then the sales pitch. I haven't had more than a few from her. Haven't bought anything.

I only have experience with Microsoft Outlook which allows you to create rules to move messages to other folders (i.e. all of my QB messages go to a separate folder marked "Quilting" so that I know when new messages are posted. Any messages I don't want to receive anymore I open that message, click on "Rules" and click "Always move to" and then select "Deleted Items". That way I never see it. Sometimes it can take a while to do it because those slicksters sometimes change their email addresses and you have to do it for every different email address :?

Don't mean to be obtuse, but just "how" do you do this?

I thought it was me. Glad you have spoken up. An occassional sales pitch is one thing, but from penny's sight 3-5 per day is waaaay to many.
After first few found everything to be repetitious, definitely not a learning site.

SPAM is my friend - there should be a button around your DELETE button - at the top of your emails - instead of deleting her emails - SPAM them -
Good luck

Start moving them to spam. Eventually they will automaticly go there and you wont have to sort through them!!!

wow i am glad you brought this up the exact same thing happened to me !! it seems like she only wants to sell not to help !! i learn more from this board than i ever could from her and this is free!!!

The price is always the same - with incredibly inflated comparisons, so three easy payments for something may seem like a bargain to the gullible.

For AOL users, there is a "Spam Control" at the bottom of the inbox that will let you block addresses or mail containing certain words or phrases. It is not as complete as Outlook's rules, but easy to use.

Thanks for the warning. :D

Yes, she was always trying to sell one thing or another.

I signed up a couple of days ago. It looked like a good place to get free patterns. I am already sorry--it has been less than a week. I haven't seen any thing of interest yet.
Sue

agreed!

I appreciate the warning!

Yep. I too have been through the "Penny Pitch" !! No more. I unsubscribed and ended that nonsense!

Never heard of her, but I'm glad for this warning!

Welcome to the world many of us have unfortunately experienced. I ended up getting a new email address.

I had a similar experience - and I agree - keep trying or just delete.

I have found a few gems among the hype on her site but not enough to put up with the over priced sales pitches. I use Gmail and just marked her emails as spam and never got another one. Google auto unsubscribes for you from any email you mark as spam. I never get spam using Gmail. I don't use my internet provider email at all. Way to much spam gets through.

Been there done that! I actually changed my email addy because I got tired of the constant sales pitch. you can usually find the info online without having to BUY anything she is offering. Things like that turn me a little bit sour. They sound so greedy.

I am curious about how you do that, too. I know that I can and they will go in my spam folder, but I don't know how to I only have experience with Microsoft Outlook which allows you to create rules to move messages to other folders (i.e. all of my QB messages go to a separate folder marked "Quilting" so that I know when new messages are posted. Any messages I don't want to receive anymore I open that message, click on "Rules" and click "Always move to" and then select "Deleted Items". That way I never see it. Sometimes it can take a while to do it because those slicksters sometimes change their email addresses and you have to do it for every different email address :?[/quote]

Thanks, I've wanted to figure out how to "sort" my emails without scanning them and manually sorting to different folders. As to the "junk mail", I've block sender after sender and yes yahoo groups that I just got tired of receiving a gazillion emails from daily. Right now they still go to a junk folder but I also might receive something that goes into "junk" that I need to move back to my Inbox so I STILL have to scan, delete or move. I'm going to research further cause it sure would make life easier. Oh, and yes, the spammers figure out how to get around their blocked sender notice!!!!

Had the same problem with a different web site. Unsubscribed 2 or 3 times. Finally just made the sender SPAM. Now I just delete it with all the other unwanted e-mail. Hope this helps.

My provider allows me to block email (companies). They also gave me several additional email addresses so that the places that require an email address, but you know it will be spam, gets a valid address.

I too have had the same problem.

Thank you for the warning. I've had this happen with other sites and it is very annoying.

I too had this problem with her emails. Very disappointed.

Ditto on this

Mine goes to a spam folder, I had the same problem.

Isn't there a way to block emails from certain addresses?
Robin in TX