Amen!!!  We have some hot listings here in Boise, if you want to drive up here today.  Have website, will travel.  

Dennis

You ought to live close to Austin Tx.  I can count on one hand the email fliers I have recieved for our area in the last month.  Now Austin area , I get 4 or 5 a day.  I have never shown property in the Austin Tx. area nor would I take a listing.  I would never advise a client that I was an expert in the area.  That would be a lie and has something to do with the Code Of Ethics.  Now refferals, that the way to go.  Has worked for me several times.

I often wonder why people are sending me these flyers too from far away places.  It's very annoying to have to delete them everday from my inbox.

I have unsubcribed to quite a few of them but still keep receiving. Now all of them go to my spam box.

Mike, good luck with that 4 million dollar sale.  I think the junk mailers and their agents look desperate.  Of course maybe they are?  

Take a look at realtytrac.com and see the Pheonix, So. Cal, and Vegas areas,  All red!  Maybe that's why we get so much junk mail.  Either way good luck rounding up your buying posse.

Here is what I do,

I reply with this signature at 36 Point size

We Do Not Tolerate Spammers,

We Turn In All !

spam@uce.gov

http://www.ftc.gov/spam/

You should see the response I get ha ha , they apologize and then some, then I bounce the e mail back to them and set to block.

I use Incredimail to do that and they are blocked for good.

E-Fliers are about 1/100 of the other nuisance fliers I receive every day.  My winner is U of Phoenix.  I must give them a medal for tenacity, though.  I tried everything to block them but, it's no use; they keep coming through like water leaks at the Hoover Dam.

I must confess, I send emails to other agents on our local MLS' reverse prospect list, email flyers of my listings with price changes. Our MLS provides a reverse prospect list which is generated from agents that have prospects receiving listing notifications fitting the criteria of a listing one may have. But I do not spam thousands of agents from a huge list through an e-flyer company! ARRRG. That is going too far and they are a nuisance. I used to unsubscribe from them, but as Ritu said, it doesn't work anymore, so I block them.

Hey, Vance, how do you use Incredimail to block spammers?

BTW, I like your picture...what is that in your hand, a shaver or a phone?  :)

Gail,

Reverse prospecting via MLS is a whole different thing.  It is an open invitation to cooperate and assist each other when we have listings that match certain buyers.

The other email flyers are a waste of the sender's money and the recipient's time.

I posted about this topic about a year ago after receiving 100's of the emails over the course of a week and not being able to block them.  I was BLASTED by readers who said that I was being petty and intolerant.  Petty or not, when I threatened to bring a law suit against the agents, brokers and suppliers of these SPAM emails, the emails mysteriously stopped coming - oh, I get one occassionally but emply Vance's technique and that's the end of that.

I used to use eFlyers ... at the very beginning when most agents didn't even know what they were. Now, I only send out occassional e-mails to agents that are trully local when I have a broker's open or something important to tell them ... or use the reverse prospecting to directly target the agents but that's about it. At this point it turned out to be a waste of money.

On the other hand, it's among the least expensive advertising I can do and it looks good when telling my seller clients that I'll e-mail their home to thousands of agents. ... so I can see the value in that.

I don't get too many of these anymore but I did get a kick out of one I got earlier this week ... so I'm in Chicago's suburbs ... and I get an eflyer from Connecticut? ... Now, if I ever mentioned to anyone here that I have a client looking in CT, I'd say sure, send it over ... but as far as my memory serves me, I don't believe I've ever had such client ... so, don't waste your advertising money on me!