Good Sam Club gone bad

hotbyte wrote:

keithhelms wrote:

Bigdog wrote:
You wouldn't have the logo if you hadn't paid for a membership.

Membership as in a Good Sam's Card? Well sure, I have a card. I wouldn't be getting multiple mailings from them a week (I hope!) if I didn't have one of their cards. I guess they cross-referenced the email I signed up with for the forum with the one I gave them for the card. There were no explicit questions on the registration process about whether you have a card.

Sorry, I thought "a member of some part of GS enterprise" meant they thought I was an employee or something.

Yes, the cross reference you GS email against the forum email. I would bet by having their card you somewhere, somehow missed some fine print that put you in a 6 month trial to road side assistance.

I've had a card for several years, so it's not like I just signed up for it and missed some fine print. No, the company did something I consider sleezy and inapropriate - they signed me up for a service that costs money without my permission. This is after I ignored dozens of mailings about their roadside assistance program over multiple years.

The first time I was aware of it was when I opened an envelope from them that looked different from their usual spam and found a bill and a cover letter with the following "Dear Roadside Assistance Member: We haven't yet received your Good Sam Platinum Roadside Assistance dues payment for the coming year's membership". At that point, I'm thinking what the hell, I never signed up for any such program. I called the number on the bill and the lady told me, oh, we gave you a free 6 months trial back in January. I told her to cancel it, never do anything like that again and take me off their mailing list. You see, I really was doing what so many posters helpfully suggested which is to toss their mailings in the trash. Apparently I missed the one where they signed me up for a non-free service.