When Good Emails Go Bad
I apologise in advance for this rather random, and possibly moany post but I feel I should say something, in the hope that it might stop or reduce my problem.
For months now I have received sob story or just plain rude emails but I woke up today to recieve 32 such emails and to be honest it’s just too much, sometimes it just feels like a personal attack.
The emails range from ones calling me names, saying I am ugly, sob stories about people who have illnesses wanting my makeup, people wanting the items I have got free to be sent to them, people who can’t afford makeup who want me to send it to them and people who apparently haven’t got paypal therefore expect free makeup.
The worst for me are the ones saying things like
“I have been sick for such a long time now I don’t have long left, and would love it if you could share your makeup with me, as we don’t have it where I live”
“please send me your makeup that you don’t want – anything basically. I can’t afford it and don’t think it’s fair that you have so much”.
Most of the emails seem to be about being having cancer or dying. Surely these can’t be real? If you have cancer and it’s bad enough that you are dying a) you are likely to be in hospital or a hospice and b) makeup is the last thing on your mind??? My mum has had cancer and I think she was more worried about the fact that she was bald and laying in an intensive care ward than the fact that she couldn’t buy any lipsticks.
I hadn’t planned on posting about this as I felt bad in case they were real but I really can’t believe that they are any more especially when I googled the email addresses of a couple of the people that contacted me – and both were beauty bloggers themselves! When you are ill you need help, sympathy and love, not makeup. And when you are poor there are more important things in life to makeup it’s not a necessity. I am lucky enough that I have a job so I can buy makeup that I like, but I do work hard at my job and long hours.
Yes I do get sent some makeup free but to be honest it’s mostly skincare and haircare and I do share it out with friends and relatives so the emails calling me a “greedy bitch” are rather uncalled for! I do also do giveaways which unless stated are all paid for our of my own pocket so if you want something free just enter those.
Is this just me? I don’t even have half as many followers as lots of bloggers so I don’t know why they are targeting me in particular. I know that spam on comments has gone insane recently with ‘follow my blog’ or ‘I followed you so follow me’. I even got spammed on twitter yesterday by someone with 1 blog post saying they needed more followers before they even bothered to post more regularly? What is your opinion?