NYC PSA:

[conuly]

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

Comments

[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.