NYC PSA:

[conuly]

This January, come give blood and get ice cream – on us.

Comments

[shadowkat]

I don't know the New York Blood Drive has just about turned me off of giving blood ever again. (I gave in December). They call me weekly, no matter how often I block their calls. They've been doing it since I gave blood. They really know how to turn people off of donating blood - I'll give them that, no wonder there's a shortage. You give? You get rewarded by a barrage of annoying phone calls. (And it is not healthy to give blood more than twice year - according to the New York Blood Donation Center's own documentation.)

[conuly]

No giving them my real number, got it.

[shadowkat]

Really don't. They'll drive you insane. And don't tell them you'll be open to giving blood again.
They are ruthless.

[conuly]

Meh, at some point when they were younger the kids signed me up for a ridiculous number of things and I'm still fending off spam calls over a decade later. I don't even answer them, I just autoblock when new unknown numbers pop up.

But I'll still take your advice to keep from making it worse.

[chanter1944]

I question the 'unhealthy to give blood more than twice a year' claim, seeing as the accepted interval according to at least two nations' reputable blood services is between 56 and 80 days.

[shadowkat]

Well, they called me to donate again within ten days. So..

[chanter1944]

Often, though I can't speak for your particular situation or services specific to NYC, that's somebody on the calling end falling down on looking up information about a given donor before they dial. I've had it happen to me, on the order of 'Oops, now I see X or Y detail in your chart, sorry about that.'

[shadowkat]

I told them, they ignored me. They aren't looking at charts, they are just spamming folks with calls. There's no order to it. It's more - lets call everyone who gave us a number as much as possible and guilt them into donating blood to us. I didn't know they did this until now. I get the need - but telemarketing is a sure way to talk someone out of doing something not into it. I don't understand why folks don't get this? People do not like to be called randomly and repeteadly on the phone and asked to do things.