I just got this idea and making a report out of it, it's about selling emails. It's like this, you get a decent amount of emails. Find a possible customer then sell it to him with full rights. Is there something bad about it?
Are you talking about email or email addresses? I am going to assume email addresses. Are these email addresses generated from your website or just people that have sent email to you? Did these people agree to a terms of service or privacy policy that states you may sell their email addresses? If they didn't then don't even think about it.
i dont personally know. But i would presume, if you have prior permission from the email accounts user, then it should be fine, however selling email address's without written permission would be illegal. Though im sure other guys here have first hand experience in this field and can give a better responce than that.
If you had no privacy policy or ToS in place that stated you might sell this info, I wouldn't do it. Even if you did I would think long and hard about it. Email lists do not go for a lot of money, and when people realize that it is your site that is selling them they will stop visiting your site.
I don't know for sure but I would presume it would be, because your facilitating spam (unless it was stated the email address will be given to third parties when opting in)
Probably not legal but I doubt anyone's going to sue you unless you are a company with a lot of money
no selling email isnt illegal. unless there are Trademark, violations of T&C involved. bigtoedomains.com
You can not sell them unless they agreed to it. If you would of had a Terms of Service or Privacy set up telling them, and they agreed to it.
This is what my company does and as people have said, don't do it unless your users have opted in, allowing you to sell their addresses to a third party.
Totally a bad idea, you'll lose your clients too. BTW, don't you get any spam email in your inbox? Did you think how they get your email ID? The way you're thinking is the way how they get your email ID. Please don't help spammer or spammy company like iEntry.
Just because people are always doing it on eBay doesn't make it legal. Its definitely not a good idea unless you have proof that they have opted-in. I would even go a step further and capture the date stamp and ip address when they opt-in or double opt-in. People love to sue people here in America...
Frankly, I don't think any reliable reseller will touch them if they're not double opted-in addresses. In addition, you should make sure that you have specific information in your privacy policy that you sell email addresses. Let me know if you have any other questions. Deena Burgess, Esq. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Any opinions are offered without knowledge of the specific law of your jurisdiction and with only the limited information provided in your post. No advice given here should be reasonably relied upon by you or any third party without consulting an attorney who is aware of all of the facts and law surrounding your situation. Any advice given here is not intended to create an attorney-client relationship in any way.
Why do something risky? If you have alot of e-mail address from your forum or website or however you got them, not from taking or stealing someone's information. Why not do a sponsor things, so people pay you to mass e-mailing their offers to your members? So you're not selling someone's information and sell it. Just an idea.
selling emails is very well Illegal, 1 because your selling peoples private info in other words. but if you had there concent it would be a diffrent story, but i doubt any one would want there emails past around the world or what not. also im not 100% sure, but i think the only people that would be interested would be spamers, and there is a legal issue with that, because there is a such think as illegal spaming.