Jigsaw and Steve W. Martin: spammers

Last night I got spam from a fellow named Steve W. Martin, author of a book called Heavy Hitter Selling. (I’m purposefully not linking to his web site or the book’s page on Amazon, so as not to give him any juice). That’s not that unusual; I get a dozen or so spams a day. What really irked me about this was his use of a service called Jigsaw.com, which pays its customers for uploading other people’s contact data. Jigsaw is much worse than Plaxo; at least with Plaxo there’s some utility to making your contact information available. Jigsaw bills itself as a sales lead database, and (to their credit) their TOS prohibits spamming– but I’m still not thrilled with the idea that someone I know made a buck (literally; Jigsaw pays $1/contact) so that boneheads can send me spam. I’m sure a lot of more famous bloggers (cue: Scoble!) will probably be hearing from this guy soon.