How to Unsubscribe from the DSW Mailing List

Designer Shoe Warehouse, or DSW, is a popular American retailer that sells name-brand shoes, handbags, and accessories. 

Unfortunately, they also send frequent marketing material to encourage prospective customers to buy products—solicitations that can easily be classified as junk mail.

For anyone who wants to put a stop to DSW junk mail and unsubscribe from their mailing list, we’ve put together this straightforward guide to do just that, and more. 

The type of junk mail DSW sends 

Since DSW is an online retailer, you can obviously expect to receive your purchases via mail if you’re currently a customer. 

However, whether you want to or not, you’ll also receive catalogs, product announcements, as well as fliers advertising upcoming special offers or sales events. 

How to unsubscribe from the DSW mailing list 

In order to keep marketing to you, most companies tend to make unsubscribing from their mailing list confusing, unclear, or difficult.

This appears to be the case with DSW, as no useful information is provided on the website in regards to use of personal information or opting out of mailing lists. 

In light of that, we suggest you contact the DSW customer service department directly to make a formal request for your information to be removed from their mailing list.

• Contact DSW customer service by phone at 1-866-379-7463
• Contact DSW customer service by email at customerservice@dsw.com

You can also get help unsubscribing from DSW by registering at CatalogChoice. This independent service helps customers opt out of junk mail, specifically catalogs.

Also, consider registering with DMAchoice as well, another independent service that filters out marketing mail you don’t want to receive (note: this applies only to mail from marketers you’ve never had correspondence with).  

While DSW doesn’t provide a timeframe for how long a mailing list opt-out process might take, in our experience you can expect to wait between 4 to 6 weeks for it to take effect.   

What to do if you keep receiving marketing material from DSW 

As mentioned, your request won’t take immediate effect. But, if it’s been 6 weeks since your opt-out request was confirmed and you still receive DSW junk mail, try the following: 

• Write “Refused: Return to sender” on the front of any junk mail from DSW with a return address and put it back in the mail.

• Make a formal complaint to DSW by contacting their customer service team. Further contact details, as well as a live chat option, can be found here.

How to stay off DSW’s mailing list for good 

If you think you receive too much unwanted marketing mail from companies, including DSW, the best thing to do is opt out from as many mailing lists as possible. 

However, it can be incredibly difficult to stay off these marketing lists, even if you’ve never had any correspondence with a particular company before. It’s because there’s a good chance online data brokers sold them your personal information without your consent.

Data brokers gather publicly available information online, and package it to sell for marketing purposes—sometimes to the highest bidder. It’s completely legal, but can lead to increased junk mail, robocalls, and spam text messages for you. 

Therefore, the only effective way to stop junk mail once and for all is to opt out of the data brokers themselves. This is doable, but with over 500 individual data brokers operating in the U.S. alone, each with different opt-out processes, it takes a lot of time and energy. 

As an alternative, you could hire a data-broker removal service to do all of it for you. DeleteMe is the market leader, and for over ten years has helped customers take control of their data. 

DeleteMe specializes in removing personal data from data broker sites, and once removed, monitors these databases to make sure your information never gets relisted.Plans start at $10.75 a month, so click here and start seeing a reduction in junk mail right away.