[jimmy28]

Don't you just hate being contacted out of the blue about something that is irrelevant, mainly because the marketer couldn't be arsed to actually check you out before sending you a load of crap?

Here's what I just received - idiot's name removed for common decency: Hi

I have just come across your website. I run a magazine based in Birmingham called Child magazine. Our readers mainly consist of moms with young children.

In the next issue we would love to include a section out of school activities in the Birmingham region and would love your class to be included in our listing directory. The cost of this is £25 to cover a period of 3 months.

If you would be interested in receiving a copy of the magazine together with an info pack please get back to me and I will send one to you.

We are also currently developing our website which will be up and running within a month. This would be an excellent place for you to advertise your services.

I hope we can work together in the near future.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes

**** *****
Partner
Child magazne
0121 *** **** My response:

Hi ****,

Thanks for the offer, but we teach an old martial art that revolves around the ancient killing arts of the Samurai. It has no self-defence application, and as such I am unsure of how this would apply to 'Child' magazine.

Do you think your readership would be interested in learning techniques that are aimed at exposing weaknesses in the opponent's armour and targetting their arteries?

Perhaps our last class would be more appropriate? We studied the implications of how the opponent's helmet straps could be used to strangle him, should our own weapon break on the battlefield.

If you still think that young mums would benefit from our art, please let me know and we can meet up and discuss a potential article...

Regards,

Scott
Heijoshin Dojo
Was I too harsh?