Page Intro: It’s unsafe and unwise to post a mailto:-type email link or actual email address online. The reason is “harvesting” type robots (programs) scour the web collecting addresses to which they will send span. Thus, to avoid having to do this, we offer a contact form so you can communicate with us. On this form we ask for the following information (all of which remains confidential). If you have trouble using our form, we have more help info on this page.
Explanation of Form Fields
Required distribution
- Select a recipient
- Use the pull-down to specify which person or department you are sending your email to.
Required contact info
- Enter your full name
- Use this to enter your full name, though if you only want to give your first name or even a pseudonym that is fine. This text input has a limit of 40 characters.
- Enter your email address
- Use this to enter your email address. The email address must be properly formatted else an error will be returned. If you want a reply you must use your valid address. This text input has a limit of 40 characters.
Optional contact info
- Enter your company name
- Use this to enter your company name if you have one. If you have a company and are requesting a catalog this is important info. This text input has a limit of 60 characters.
- Enter your phone number
- If you want us to give you a call, please enter your telephone number — a number that can be reached during East coast business hours. This text input has a limit of 30 characters.
- Enter your web site address
- If you have a web site feel free the share the address with us. There’s no promise that we’ll visit, but we might. This text input has a limit of 60 characters.
Optional referrer info
- How did you hear about us?
- It’s always good to learn how people heard about us. Thus, if you’re new to us and we to you, please share with us how you found out about The Green Spot and our GreenMethods web site. if not listed in the pull-down provided, please use the comments area.
Required contact reason
- Select a contact reason
- We want to know why you are contacting us and require this info. If your reason for communication with us is not list in the pull-down provided, please use the comments area.
Required comments area
- Enter your message or mailing address if requesting a catalog
- This should be self-explanatory. We figure if you’re not saying anything then why contact us? And we can’t send a free catalog (to the US and Canada) without your mailing address. Use this textarea to write your address or enter your message. There are no limits to the amount of content you may enter, but please note that all markup and scripting will be removed if you try to enter such content. Please use plain text only and if including web addresses, write them out in full like this:
http://www.another-url.com/.
Required anti-spam question
- This question will vary from time-to-time
- To confirm that you’re human, we require that you answer a super-simple question, spell a word (that we’ll give to you in the question), or we’ll ask that you do some simple math (
2+2=, etc.). Response lengths are dictated by the length of the proper response. Please note that your response is case-insensitive.
Time to send it to us
- Check this box if you want a carbon copy of this email
- If you would like to get a copy of the mail you are sending, do as the input label says, just check the box. The email you get will be “From” us (the email address you sent to), and the “Reply-to” will be the address you provided in the form. You cannot reply to the copy as it’ll just be sent to you. If for some reason you don’t get the copy, check your spam filter.
- Submit Form
- Once you have everything filled out, click this button to send the email.
Hopefully, if you needed it, that answered your questions. [Intro]
Form Troubles?
Due to heightened security, it may be impossible for some people to send an email via our form. One of the main reasons for this is that you have “referrer logging” disabled on your browser or from your location (based on your mail server settings). If you get this error you will be presented with options.
There are other possibilities, too:
- If you can’t answer the required anti-spam question because of a cognitive disability, the error will offer you options.
- Your browser has a tool bar that uses “AutoFill” and it has populated a hidden “honeypot” field. This shouldn’t happen but it can if the variable “p-mail” has been used on another web site and you’ve filled it in. This is rare. If this happens to you, we will provide options.
If for some reason you simply cannot use our contact form, just go to the Additional Contact Info page and there you’ll be presented with the above-mentioned “options.” [Intro]
