NRA is starting to tick me off!

[model14]

NRA is starting to tick me off because of aggressive marketing tactics! Although my annual membership isn't up until June, I have been receiving early renewal requests every month since last fall. Every one of these requests has employed some kind of trick to make you think it is time to renew. The latest included a fake paper NRA membership card. If you don't check your actual required renewal date the literature implies you need too renew now. Then yesterday, I received a self-defense DVD which I am expected to pay for unless I open the case, pull out the DVD, and send it back to NRA telling them I don't want it. I thought that kind of BS was long gone. It is a cheap trick and makes me think NRA is now being run by cheap marketing strategy no different than the other crap I get in my mail. If they need more money to defend 2nd Amendment rights, then ask for it, don't try to trick me into giving it to them.

 

[franconialocal]

I get an annual card, American Rifleman magazine, and offers to upgrade to Benefactor Life. That's the only correspondence they have with me.

 

[PowerJoker6.0]

seriously that is why i let my membership lapse 3 years ago. i had heard they stopped doing that, so when last month when they sent me some thing trying to get me to join, i signed up for 3 years. still waiting on my range bag too! i hope i dont get any of that pay or send back crap in the mail...

what about GOA? i joined the GOA about 2 years ago and i havent heard a thing from them ever, i dont even know if im still a member anymore.

 

[bikemutt]

I get bombarded with NRA offers, at least 2 or 3 weekly. 98% of them don't make it past the recycle bin. So far everything has been opt-in which I'm fine with, the DVD thing sounds more like opt-out. If that nonsense hits my mailbox it will get a reaction. I despise opt-out marketing.

 

[Old Sarge]

I've been an annual member for many many years, and feel the NRA is doing more good than bad. If it weren't for them, gun owners would be in deep doo doo. On the other hand, I too get PO'd with all the garbage I receive from them. I have often thought of upgrading my membership to a lifetime membership, but I get my dander up when I read of some offer for lifetime membership, for lesser $$$$, that was offered to a select few, but never to the down in the trenches, annual membership.

 

[Remo223]

Years ago, they sent me a VHS tape on something I didn't ask for and I was either supposed to pay for it, or mail it back to them telling them I didn't want it. I dropped it on the floor, stomped on it, and threw it away and never paid for it. they never asked me to pay for it either. So I wouldn't sweat it.

 

[Magoo]

I dropped my membership with Trout Unlimited becasue of the volume of mailings they sent me. Utter nonsense.

I'll keep my comments about the NRA to myself in here.

 

[zhyla]

Charities in general seem to step it up a notch once they figure out you will give them money. It's annoying, but it gets the desired effect, I imagine.

 

[billybob44]

I get an annual card, American Rifleman magazine, and offers to upgrade to Benefactor Life. That's the only correspondence they have with me.

Same here..FWIW, I get more junk mail from:American Hunter,GunTest,Guns&Ammo,Bass Times,+BassMaster, than I get from the NRA..Bill.

 

[ATBackPackin]

I agree that the junk mail can be annoying, hell all junk mail is annoying and goes directly into the recycling bin, but I think without the NRA we would be way worse off. I pay my dues and anything else I receive from them goes either in the trash or recycling. I have received the DVDs too and they go in the recycling bin as well. I guess what I am saying is I wouldn't sweat it that much and take it for what it's worth, a marketing ploy.

Shawn

 

[Sam1911]

Seems like it has to be said every few weeks, but you can call member services and ask to be removed from all mailing lists. You'll still get your magazine and a renewal notice (hopefully, when it is time).

 

[model14]

Thanks for your comments. Please recognize I fully support the NRA and their efforts to uphold our gun rights. I just don't like cheap marketing tricks, because it inplies the sender thinks I am stupid. Getting old, but not stupid

 

[TexasRifleman]

Seems like it has to be said every few weeks, but you can call member services and ask to be removed from all mailing lists. You'll still get your magazine and a renewal notice (hopefully, when it is time).

As Sam says, this thread comes up nearly weekly..... it's been covered plenty.