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I didn't just have this experience with NYT, but also ACLU. Easy to give them your credit card, but far more difficult to get them to stop the recurring charge
by rootusrootus 5y ago
I didn't just have this experience with NYT, but also ACLU. Easy to give them your credit card, but far more difficult to get them to stop the recurring charge. This stings a lot more than NYT, because philosophically I had better opinions of ACLU.
To this day, ACLU people text me every week or so to ask me to do participate somehow. No matter how many times I've asked them to stop. And since the texts come from someone different each time, blocking isn't a viable option.
Guess who won't be getting any more of my money?
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- lamontcg 5y agoThis is why I don't donate to good causes anymore (including a somewhat similar experience with the ACLU). I'd like to donate to charity but I don't want to have to setup an untrackable shell company in the Cayman Islands in order to do it without being harassed.
- bobince 5y agoIn the UK we have cafonline.org which works nicely for this purpose. Nothing similar in the US?
- handoflixue 5y agoI just recently emailed the ACLU to cancel my donation, and a week later got an email back confirming the cancellation no problem. It wasn't exactly transparent, since the only place mentioning who to email was the "welcome" email I got when I signed up ages ago. But I was able to cancel by a single email to the address they'd provided.
- r00fus 5y agoI never had this problem with the ACLU. Sorry it sucks for you.