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Public Service Announcement
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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
I have tried telling charities that I do not like solicitation calls and that I'll only consider making a donation if they send me a letter. Sometimes I add that if they call me again I definitely will not make a donation (or buy anymore tickets if it's something like the symphony). At least some of them do listen to this.
Yesterday a local rep theater asked us for a $1000 donation. WTF? We have never donated money to them, and we subscribed to six plays (in crappy seats) for the first time ever this season. If they'd asked for $200 they might've gotten something, but starting at a grand was a mistake. When they said "well, if not that much, a lesser amount" it was sort of like asking someone you just met for a blowjob, and then after she gets pissed off saying "well, how about just a hug?"
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I have sympathy for local not-for-profits, because I get recruited from time to time to do phone banking for them. I know that their lists are generated through a hoge-podge method of begging, culling and combining of other contact lists.
The call that irritates the hell out of me is some insurance company starting off the recorded spiel about how it's an important "public health announcement."
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"In the olden days before the internet, you'd take this sort of person for a ride out into the woods and shoot them, as Darwin intended, before he could spawn."--Will the Vampire People Leave the Lobby? pg 79
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