Imagine getting spam emails from a store you’ve not only never shopped at but never even heard of. If you realized the emails were due to an account someone else had set up and given the wrong email address, would you ignore the emails or find a way to get payback for all the spam?

In today’s story, this person decides to get payback in a creative way.

Let’s see how the story plays out.

Use my email address in-store, I’ll spend your loyalty reward points on cat treats

Back in 2021, I started getting random emails from Tractor Supply asking me to rate my order. I’m in the UK, so I had no clue what Tractor Supply was – turns out they’re in the US and they don’t even sell tractors.

When the first email arrived, I thought it was probably a mistake.. the customer making the purchase at Tractor Supply may have just given the wrong email address at the checkout.

I got in very early with Gmail, so my email address is very simple. It’s understandable someone might have just made a mistake once or twice, but the emails kept coming.

The simple solution would have been to just block the Tractor Supply emails, but I was feeling something a bit more petty in exchange for using my email address to send spam to.

There wsa a loyalty program.

Turns out I could create a Tractor Supply account on the website, even though I don’t live in the USA, and when I created the account with my email address, it connected my new account with the in-store loyalty profile the perpetrator was using my email address for.

I could see the full history of all of their in-store orders. Dog collars, cement, etc.

When you make a purchase at Tractor Supply, you get points back to your loyalty account that you can then use to activate a reward. The perpetrator was waiting until they reached enough points to get a $10 discount off their next purchase.

They’re never going to get the $10 discount.

One of the other rewards you can buy with loyalty points is a voucher for a bag of cat treats, so now every time I get an email from Tractor Supply about a new purchase, I login to my account and exchange my newly assigned loyalty points with a voucher for a bag of cat treats.

The account currently has 8 accrued vouchers and it’s now turned into a game of how many cat treat vouchers I can get before they notice.

I don’t know how it works in-store, or if there’s a limit on how many you can have, but I’m secretly hoping on a future purchase the perpetrator is asked if they want their 15-20 free bags of cat treats added to their order and they finally realise they probably shouldn’t use a random petty strangers email address.

It would be an interesting twist if the person making the purchases actually has a cat and wants the cat treats.

I don’t get why people don’t just use their real email addresses though.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.

This person shares a joke their dad made about Tractor Supply.

This person gets emails intended for another person too.

This person had someone using their pizza points.

Here’s the perspective of another Tractor Supply shopper.

I hope they enjoy the cat treats!

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