I have, in the past, donated to various candidates and progressive/liberal political groups. As they say, no good deed goes unpunished and now I am the recipient of multiple daily scare/begging text messages. Beep, beep, beep, goes my phone way too many times a day from these guys.
Yes, I know that we're in a dire situation. But the frantic tone of these messages is really annoying--We're begging! My jaw hit the floor when I saw . . ., This is a hard thing to say. . ., Have you switched parties? We need your input for this to be complete . . . Important survey! Your voice is missing!
And the thing is, maybe they want my voice but what they really want is my money. Answer the survey and hit SUBMIT but nothing happens till you fill out the amount of your donation.
So I'm taking a hard line: texting STOP and blocking the number.
No doubt I'll still do some donating. But not to these pests.
7 comments:
Thankfully, I don't get actual begging calls, just texts. But they are annoying enough.
So much exaggerating in this world to get our attention.
Annoying as well as potentially costing the recipient money, depending on what sort of phone plan one has. I delete those unread.
I’ve blocked all the text numbers or wrote stop. I record the tv shows Im interested in so I can fast forward through commercials.
The exaggerated, doomsday tone irritates me too. You know, you can turn off the audible alerts from your phone. But the texts would still be there, so blocking the numbers is probably the best idea.
The begging comes to me by email. I haven't given my cell to any of them.
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