Was this in bad taste?

[luvmarypoppins]

I am sure I should have worded this differently. Background - I grew up next to 2 boys. I have moved to another state and havent seen them since my moms funeral which was 7 years ago. This one guy is married and has 3 kids. He also has many relatives from his wifes family too. Havent gotten a note, phone call, christmas card, no communication from these people in 7 years. Yesterday in the mail, I get, not l, not 2, but 3, one from each of their kids, form letters asking me to buy magazine subscriptions from their school,. Hello, I havent heard from you in 7 years, you only care about me supporting your kids school, do you care how we are etc? I am throwing it in the garbage. I just might shock them and send a christmas card and with a little note. They have so many relatives, our ds did this too and you have to have 10 names. They could have come up with them in their own family circle. I just feel used. Also sad, like that is all they care about us for - money.

 

[LiLIrishChick63]

i'm glad you're throwing them out. don't even give it another thought. toss 'em in the trash and go about your daily routiene.

 

[disneymama73]

Yep, toss it in the trash!

 

[Cinderella2004]

I would have tossed them too.

But, as a side note.....we had a similar fundraiser last year. It was made clear to the parents that the school was getting the $$ by submitting the names. The more names, the more $$ for the school. The people didn't have to buy anything. I was sure to tell that to anyone we sent ours to. Maybe they just went through an old address book, and meant to follow up??

Also, aside from the initial postcard, we've never gotten any other material soliciting sales.

 

[JadenLayne]

Yep I would have tossed them.

My husband gets this. He is manager at the Cable TV Company here and we get phone calls all the time from people we haven't heard from in years asking for a favor with hooking up their cable or holding their bill or fixing this or that. DH is to nice and usually helps them. I'm just mean and I wouldn't....LOL!

 

[rcraw45425]

I'd toss them too. IMO, that's right up there with getting a graduation/wedding invitation (ie. gimme) from someones child that you have not seen since preschool. I have tossed those too!

 

[Hedy]

Weird, weird.
I wonder if this is the same magazine company my neice's GS troop used that after I bought a subscription, send me a "thank you note" to send to my neice. Yeah, my mind is still boggling as well.

 

[Pop Daddy]

I would buy some, but of course I would then send him my cable bill

 

[BeachBabi0]

i think that that's rude. you are right to throw those fundraisers away. the nerve!

 

[lulugirl]

That's strange.
I would have tossed them in the trash w/ out a second thought.

 

[ZanneMarie]

I would have thrown them away also butI second what a previous poster mentioned. The school/organization gets credit for simply mailing them out to as many people as possible whether or not they order. So probably they simply needed a few more names for their list--so they thought of you---awwww, how sweet!

 

[golfgal]

Chances are the way it works is that if they fill out the postcards for however many people that live out of town they get a prize. Most people don't expect you to actually order from them. It isn't a big deal really. Our magazine drive at our old school was huge and we made about $1900 off these postcards, which is ok but it is only about 1% of our total sales. I got 2 from friends in our old town, it didn't bother me in the least to get them. I threw them away just like they knew we would.

 

[DisneyBlonde]

Chances are the way it works is that if they fill out the postcards for however many people that live out of town they get a prize. Most people don't expect you to actually order from them. It isn't a big deal really. Our magazine drive at our old school was huge and we made about $1900 off these postcards, which is ok but it is only about 1% of our total sales. I got 2 from friends in our old town, it didn't bother me in the least to get them. I threw them away just like they knew we would.

I vaguely remember my son's school doing a similar fundraiser, I remember sending the postcards to our family in California and Arizona...but I think I jotted right on the postcard that they should not feel obligated to purchase anything.