Hi I am considering having a site where I purchase targeted email addresses off a site then onselling these addresses to others. Do I face any legality issues here with this?? Thanks
First off, were the email addresses collected legally? If people submitted their email addresses, were they told that they might be sold or shared with others? Secondly, what are the terms and conditions of the sale of the email addresses to you? Are you allowed to share or resell the list? Thirdly, reselling email address lists puts you in league with spammers - is your web host OK with that? I'd say ethically it's a bad idea. Whether it's legal or not is going to depend on many details, including where you and your servers are located.
not doing it anymore, decided this is not a good road to get involved in. thanks for the responses guys
a bit off topic, but I've suspected many times that digital point either does this (resells our emails) or has a security flaw. I changed my email a couple times to new gmail addresses and within weeks started getting spam offering me webmaster-related products
that's raw, man. i always use diff email addresses for each sign up, so i can track which website sells email addresses.
hehe, nothing wrong with this. just setup a catchall email address, and u will have almost unlimited numbers of email address.