Good Sam Club gone bad
This company seems to have become a fairly shady marketing firm. I get at least a couple of mailings from them every week for the same products over and over and over again. If I didn't sign up for ...
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keithhelms wrote: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.
If you had just thrown that one in the trash you would have never known about the free offer and your "blood pressure" would have stayed normal instead of peaking as it did. I bet since you did not pay the premium, your free 6 mo. service is no longer in effect.
