A BAD MAIL OFFER GETS AN EVIL RESPONSE
I really didn’t plan on writing yet another GNoT blog
today. Hey, yesterday I was busy helping
spread the word about a FB Fix and today, well, thanks to a stupid piece of
mail from an equally stupid company, here I go again.
I was torn whether to post this as a GNoT (Gold Nuggets of
Truth) blog or add it to my solar blog, Journey to Sunland. I opted for GNoT with a future link to JtS.
Whenever I get a piece of mail that reads like the smell of
week old fish left in 100 + degree heat, I must check it out to be sure I’m
correct. I was so dead on with this one.
AND SO IT BEGINS….
Yesterday, a letter from Sunrun Solar included a code and a
website where I could go to see if I was eligible for $500. Now the fact that I have had solar panels for
more than a year now SHOULD mean that I was scrubbed from this mailing. I guess mailing list scrubbing isn’t as good
as it used to be, or maybe I should say, “good as it should be.”
Companies buy mailing lists that meet certain criteria. Usually it’s an age group, an income level,
home ownership requirements, debt level, etc.
Often it must meet several of the above.
I will say with a very large amount of certainty Sunrun bought my name
in a mailing list.
I would think one of the criteria would be that the person
getting the ad would not already be a solar panel owner. That would have left me out, but since they
chose to include me, my actions and response if fair game. Did I ever mention that sometimes I can be a
massive prick?
After opening the letter and reading it, I was compelled to
go on line to see if I qualified. Even
before I did that I would have been willing to bet a month of income I would
qualify. Yes, I would have won. But don’t stop reading because you know that
because this gets out and out funny.
When I went on line and entered the ‘CODE’ it redirected me
to a website asking me a few simple questions.
1) What is my typical electric bill? I responded $15.00 which is true. That alone should have been enough to make us
ineligible, but there was one more question.
2) There was a google map picture of our home, complete with existing
solar panels. I was asked to move the
big red circle over the top of my house to verify my address. Seriously??
If anyone at Sunrun had seen that picture they would have known we have
solar panels.
Then I was asked to click the magic button to see if I
qualify. CLICK! And not to my surprise, I QUALIFIED.
You can just imagine I was thrilled to the point that I
almost pissed myself.
The next part I just loved.
To get the intimate details on how all of this works they want my phone
number and an email address. It states
in the fine print that by suppling that information I am granting them
permission to make a robo call(s) that will connect me to a ‘SOLAR SPECIALIST’
and I am granting them permission to contact me via email.
Yes, friends, I love that part….BECAUSE……
1)
I can filter any email they can send and it will
go it immediately into my trash AND….
2)
I’ve installed a device on my phone that will
have their robo dialer calling me for weeks
or months and NEVER make my home
phone ring. It just keeps taking their
calls into a
never ending loop. It also works great with political and survey callers too. Oh, before
never ending loop. It also works great with political and survey callers too. Oh, before
it ever takes them into the loop
it plays that loud, obnoxious, and annoying 3 tone phone
disconnected sounder
with a nice message that tells them to forth unto all corners of the
world and
multiply themselves.
Did I mention earlier I can be a massive prick? Yeah, I thought so.
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whole, without express written consent is prohibited.
