Deceptive marketing pratices!

Those deceptive fools...giving free memberships and all...

Yaj wrote:
Ahh... the answer just arrived via private message from this forum...

Hi Jay,

In early May we sent you a letter with your Good Sam Club membership cards letting you know you received a free one-year Club membership as part of a new Camping World SuperCenter grand opening in Saukville.

Your Good Sam Club membership # is XXXXXXXXXX and expires 5/1/15.

If you're not interested in keeping the membership I can cancel the membership.

If you'd like to keep the membership, I'm happy to turn off all mail solicitations from other Good Sam groups.

Just let me know what you prefer.

Sincerely,
Good Sam Club Team

So I am a member and was not deceived.

Thanks so much for posting and fessing up.

We not only now know what happened but also you are a person of good character.

Yaj wrote:


So I am a member and was not deceived.

Takes a big man to pass along that a mistake was made, Jay- good for you.

Now git on out there and getcherself some of that discounted propane or something! :)

Ahh... the answer just arrived via private message from this forum...

Hi Jay,

In early May we sent you a letter with your Good Sam Club membership cards letting you know you received a free one-year Club membership as part of a new Camping World SuperCenter grand opening in Saukville.

Your Good Sam Club membership # is XXXXXXXXXX and expires 5/1/15.

If you're not interested in keeping the membership I can cancel the membership.

If you'd like to keep the membership, I'm happy to turn off all mail solicitations from other Good Sam groups.

Just let me know what you prefer.

Sincerely,
Good Sam Club Team

So I am a member and was not deceived.

DutchmenSport wrote:

...I don't think I'm a Good Sam member either. We do have a membership at Camping World....

Good Sam is Camping World and Camping World is Good Sam. A membership in one is a membership in the other since a couple years ago.

Good Sam junk mail is just as useful as other junk mail. makes great fire starter. Find something important to worry about.

wbwood wrote:
They have your email. Either from this forum or elsewhere (maybe you signed up for a raffle somewhere). Your email address is thrown in a database and the email goes out to everyone in that database.

The OP is talking about snail mail, not email.

But, I agree. It's not deceptive. I think it's called marketing. :)

Except for GS/CW, when I've called all of the rest of catalog and junk mailers, they've taken us off their mailing lists. We get almost no junk mail anymore to pile up while we're gone. GS/CW just can't seem to figure it out.

I watched a couple of Marcus' shows the other night where he goes around buying small businesses and fixing them. Seems to be a smart guy. He stresses People, Processes and Profit. All that I can say is there's still a lot of Processes that need to be fixed at GS/CW. You should always fix the low hanging fruit first - easy things with quick returns. To fix the wasted mailing process would save them a lot of money. Maybe someone there has a yearly goal of increasing mailings by 10%. Therefore the last thing they want to do stop any of them. Again - a bad Process.

On sort of the reverse, if they'd mail people out their membership cards in a reasonable time, they'd have a lot more happy customers.....

And since I'm on a little bit of a rant about junk mail, the only people you can't stop it from is the USPS. You'll get a local pizza shop that pays the USPS to mail their adds to everyone in a certain zip code. After a lot of calls to them, they basically gave two answers, they didn't want to loose any revenue by not sending me the pizza mailing and even if they wanted to, their computer system is so outdated, they can't eliminate certain addresses.

Bill

I get lots of junk mail addressed to "Interested Party". But I am in most cases decidedly NOT interested!

Have I been deceived?????

I think I got the same mail. I don't think I'm a Good Sam member either. We do have a membership at Camping World so maybe Afinity is Cross Selling ads. Doesn't matter though, I've already got insurance and am pleased with it. But you gotta give them a little credit... it's called "marketing" and every company does what they can to reach anyone willing to part with their money! :E