Re: ADA Email Updates
Julie Bove
"BlueBrooke" <blueb...@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> It's been so long since I signed up for ADA email notifications, I
> don't even remember doing it. Which isn't saying much -- could have
> been last month, I suppose.
>
> I have received nothing from them until recently, and all the "email
> updates" I'm getting now are donation requests. Is that all the
> "email updates" feature is used for -- hitting people up for cash at
> Christmas time? I've unsubscribed at this point, so it's only a
> matter of curiosity.
Dunno. I wouldn't want e-mail from them.
Tiger Lily
> It's been so long since I signed up for ADA email notifications, I
> don't even remember doing it. Which isn't saying much -- could have
> been last month, I suppose.
>
> I have received nothing from them until recently, and all the "email
> updates" I'm getting now are donation requests. Is that all the
> "email updates" feature is used for -- hitting people up for cash at
> Christmas time? I've unsubscribed at this point, so it's only a
> matter of curiosity.
unsubscribing doesn't help
returning the mail as 'no such person at this address' doesn't help
i made a donation under the name Tiger Lily
just before Christmas, we go mail "To the Lily Family" asking for more money
i'm at the point where i'm going to write them a letter, tell them to
save $35 on each of the 4 mail outs i get every year (we won't even talk
about the blinking phone calls!) and, as i have saved them $140 in
operating costs, will they send me a receipt for said sum...........
:D
it makes me really really annoyed that i end up on their mailing
lists.......... to the point where i don't wish to donate privately, but
perhaps thru a fund of some sort? Iaccoca's 10 million $ 'matching
fund' donation (he will match everyone's contribution up to $XX million)
is the ONLY time i haven't been nagged to death about MORE donations
why don't these people see it that way? perhaps we should ALL call the
exec team of the JDRF or whatever diabetes org and ask THEM for money 4
times a year.............. and then offer to STOP calling if they give
us a donation receipt
GRRRRRRRRRR
kate
Julie Bove
"Tiger Lily" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
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I once made a donation to them when someone here died. Can't remember who.
The family was asking for donations to them, so I did.
Got bugged till I moved. I think maybe even after I moved because the stuff
was forwarded. Haven't heard from them in years.
Now the ASPCA is bugging me.
ellerby
<juli...@verizon.net> posted:
Ah, Yeah, G'day Julie, et al.
I had a similar problem with Readers Digest nearly 30 yrs ago.
When my subscription expired they kept sending it.
I sent a form advising them to stop sending their magazine. They sent it.
I ceased payng for it. They sent it.
After 12 mths they began sending it to my non-existent wife.
They eventually sent one which included a form requesting it be returned to
their address in Madison Avenue, NY via the enclosed prepaid Air-Mail form.
I wrapped up a 9 lb house-brick, folded the form to show the postal
information and returned it as requested.
They didn't even send me a thank-you note ...
.. but the magazine stopped coming.
Composed Ozdate Sun 3/1 12:17 and posted when back online.
All with the usual proviso - IANAL IMHO YMMV ...
.... and Wes' Guidelines re judging others:
Lindsay in OZ
(Which only *partly* explains the date, spelling and posting styles)
M, 57, Non diabetic but familiarly involved
So I lurk, don't post often - usually in non medical threads.
"It is in the shelter of each other that people live."
Irish Proverb