โJul-01-2015 04:03 PM
โJul-03-2015 01:30 PM
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.
โJul-03-2015 12:28 PM
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.
โJul-03-2015 08:47 AM
Ozlander wrote:keithhelms wrote:
A couple of nights ago I got a call from "Windows Technical Support" by some Indian guy. I hung up on him, looked that one up and found they try to con you into giving them remote access to your PC, whereupon you either pay them for some bogus virus removal service or they will delete a bunch of files off your system.
Yeah, I got a call from him. He said my computer had been reporting a problem.
I accused him of spying on my computer and told him I was going to report him to the FBI.
It got real quite on the line.
โJul-03-2015 07:39 AM
keithhelms wrote:fla-gypsy wrote:
If this is your big issue you have a pretty easy life
A couple of nights ago I got a call from "Windows Technical Support" by some Indian guy. I hung up on him, looked that one up and found they try to con you into giving them remote access to your PC, whereupon you either pay them for some bogus virus removal service or they will delete a bunch of files off your system.
โJul-03-2015 06:51 AM
keithhelms wrote:
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 their insurance after the first 50 mailings, I don't know why they think I will with #51.
The last straw for me was today when I got a bill from Good Sam Roadside Assistance stating "Urgent! YOUR MEMBERSHIP EXPIRES THIS MONTH". I called the number on the bill and told the woman I had never signed up for this program. She said "Oh, you were given a free 6-month membership back in January". To me, it is extremely devious to send me renewal bills for memberships I never requested. I told her to never send anything like this to me again and to take me off their mailing list. I'm sure they make money off of this, because someone somewhere will be confused and pay the bill, possibly thinking their spouse signed up for it.
โJul-03-2015 05:10 AM
โJul-03-2015 04:37 AM
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.
โJul-03-2015 04:34 AM
Water-Bug wrote:hotbyte wrote:
Sorry Water-Bug...guess my sarcasm didn't come through.
Sarcasm is usually apparent verbally, but sometimes is lost in print. Emoticons (if used) help to make it apparent.
โJul-02-2015 11:19 PM
Bigdog wrote:
You wouldn't have the logo if you hadn't paid for a membership.
โJul-02-2015 10:55 PM
โJul-02-2015 10:09 PM
hotbyte wrote:
What is really a shame is they sponsor a FREE forum where you can complain about all the junk mail they send you. Interesting that OP has the GS logo under username so is a member of some part of GS enterprise.
โJul-02-2015 08:24 PM
hotbyte wrote:
Sorry Water-Bug...guess my sarcasm didn't come through.
โJul-02-2015 08:20 PM
โJul-02-2015 07:54 PM