Why can you sign up for an email list instantly but to unsubscribe it can take up to 10 days? Is there an actual technical reason or is it a sales tactic to try to make you reconsider?

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Why can you sign up for an email list instantly but to unsubscribe it can take up to 10 days? Is there an actual technical reason or is it a sales tactic to try to make you reconsider?

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It’s a legal disclaimer just incase the system doesn’t actually remove you properly for some reason. Hypothetically let’s say you unsubscribe, and 5 minutes later there’s a database outage and they need to use the backup from 10 minutes ago. You’ll still receive emails until the outage audit unsubscribes you again. Personally I’ve never had an issue being immediately unsubscribed.

The sales tactics to make you reconsider are the unsubscribe survey, and the unsubscribe notification email.

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