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Is a scenario where you actually want your emails to convert to sales not necessary?

No. It's called spam and there is a special circle of hell reserved for people who send it. Keep that shit out of my inbox.

Do you have an issue with opt-in HTML emails?

I don't think this site is advocating spamming at all, nor do services designed to facilitate sending HTML emails (MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, etc.)