An open letter to AspDotNetStoreFront and DotNetNuke,

I read a post on the DotNetNuke forums a little more than a month ago that they had selected the AspDotNet StoreFront software as their solution to provide their ecommerce solution to power the DotNetNuke marketplace. The original post is located here, http://www.dotnetnuke.com/About/NewsRoom/MediaReleases/AspDotNetStorefrontforDotNetNukeMarketplace/tabid/993/Default.aspx

As luck would have it, about that same time I was looking for an option other than SnowCovered to provide a sales solution for my site. I looked briefly at the DNN store module and a couple of other solutions but they either didn't suit my situation or they just didn't work. I decided at the time to give the AspDotNet StoreFront option a try. I thought I would submit a pre sales question about the suitability of their solution to my site. Well, it has been at least a month with no feedback on my question but low and behold today I have been so lucky as to have received some communication. Not only have they not answered my pre-sales question, they've managed to add my email address to their spam list and sent me no less than 4 emails in a span of 1 hour and 3 minutes about their product.

Now, I have to say, I don't mind being part of an email list when I've actually purchased the product. I have a similar list of customers that I email when I want to tell them about exciting new developments from DNNStuff. But to actually add someone to an email list from a pre-sales question, let alone one that never got a reply is unquestionably bad taste. I hope that the folks from aspdotnetstorefront remedy this situation quickly. Maybe they have a superior product and can disregard the one offs like me but hey, I didn't get a reply.

We do not spam anyone. You had a completely valid customer record in our database, with OkToEMail flag set to "true". Hence, you got our news e-mails. It's just that simple. You replied with "remove" (along with a tyrade complaining to us) and we removed you.