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annoying non-profit behavior
I got a phone call Friday shortly before Shabbat. It was a telemarketer who led off with "I'm calling from a charity you support". (Charities are exempt from the anti-telemarketing laws in PA.) I said "this isn't a good time" and he said "this will take one minute". So I decided he could have that much.
He was not concise. He was calling to ask for money, of course; while he was talking I had pulled the checkbook ledger, so I interrupted him to say "I've sent you money recently and I do this on an annual basis; do not bother me until spring". Ah, but this was a special appeal, don't you see, what with the election coming up... I repeated that charities that pester me after I've made my wishes known don't tend to get repeat donations, and even that didn't shut him up. So I hung up on him.
So, to NARAL: *plonk*. Train your telemarketers better -- and by the way, you should stop outsourcing your fund-raising to India. (And another by-the-way: the guy was calling for PAC money, which might not fall under the charity exemption from those telemarketing laws -- call me again about this and I'll ask the attorney general about that.)
He was not concise. He was calling to ask for money, of course; while he was talking I had pulled the checkbook ledger, so I interrupted him to say "I've sent you money recently and I do this on an annual basis; do not bother me until spring". Ah, but this was a special appeal, don't you see, what with the election coming up... I repeated that charities that pester me after I've made my wishes known don't tend to get repeat donations, and even that didn't shut him up. So I hung up on him.
So, to NARAL: *plonk*. Train your telemarketers better -- and by the way, you should stop outsourcing your fund-raising to India. (And another by-the-way: the guy was calling for PAC money, which might not fall under the charity exemption from those telemarketing laws -- call me again about this and I'll ask the attorney general about that.)
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