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Originally posted by Lalafortunaea:
It's marketing and it's how most online marketing works. She hasn't been writing to you for a year . Not technically.
When you gave your email, you signed up to the mailing list, and everybody who signs up is sent the same email. She's not writing to each individual in her mailing list. That'd be way too much work. The way it works is they make a bulk mailer account with premade emails which are coded to use your name. You could try it again with another email and call yourself "Sparkly Unicorn McPanties" and that'll be the name you're addressed with.
It's how email marketing is done. It's how Amazon does it, Ebay, when you sign up for free samples. They ain't talking to you personally. Sure if you reply they'll get it usually if it's more independent. So while they say they care for you and feel a connection ( :P ) that email's being sent to everyone, and it is scheduled.
I just signed up with my designated spam email.
"Hello SparklyUnicorn McPanties,
This is Mary your Professional Astrologer.
Thank you for subscribing to my website.
You will receive your Free Personal Report in about 2 hours to your email, as I need some time to prepare it."
The thing is that she's not actually doing it herself (the reading i'll receive). There's a program that does it. It doesn't actually take two hours, but that's just to give it a personal, authentic feel. It might not be wrong but she certainly isn't doing it all herself. It'll be a program with pre-written responses which does the calculation itself and delivers the description designated for each aspect and such. It probably isn't wrong but it also probably isn't great. I guess I'll have to wait 2 hours :P
Most the emails you get are just pitches will pulls.
As for were you scammed? That's debatable. It is cheap, so the product will be cheap as well. We'll only know when and if you get your results. And if you want maybe post your results somewhere for others to help determine the accuracy.
It is quite disheartening to feel we've been scammed but we all at some point have been there either at a store, market, shopping, or online. And feeling we wasted such money can be awful, but live and learn, I suppose.