MISLEADING ADVERTISEMENT GETS EVIL RESPONSE

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

                  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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