How did you get one of the 0-dollar contestants to agree to be donated?MarleysGh0st wrote:Besides my usual charitable donations last year, I donated a llama to the Heifer Project.
On my answering machine last evening, I had a recorded message from the director of that charity, thanking me for the donation. I had already received the usual letter in the mail acknowledging it.
How would the rest of you feel about getting a canned "thank you" call? I may just be too annoyed at robocalls in general to appreciate them, but would anyone care for it?
Why isn't Rich U. paying their bills?ghostjmf wrote:We get robo-calls from bill collectors for Dell Computers at work; I await a call from a human bill collector, & respond to that. Eventually they'll get wise.
Maybe some of them are eager to leave the country, after MBFFB gets through with them?earendel wrote: How did you get one of the 0-dollar contestants to agree to be donated?
I don't know. My office certainly tells them to when its our bills. And can prove it! (Other depts gotta take care of their own bills; sometimes companies don't have that straight, so we straighten them.) I am currently not allowed to pursue it beyond the "we told them to" stage.Why isn't Rich U. paying their bills?
That's very nice of you. Will they send you letters and pictures from your llama?MarleysGh0st wrote:Besides my usual charitable donations last year, I donated a llama to the Heifer Project.
No, they say they keep their expenses down by aggregating donations together, so I won't get pictures of "my" llama or reports about which family it goes to. And, alas, that means I won't be able to suggest naming it "Meredith" or anything for an audition hook.PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Will they send you letters and pictures from your llama?
MarleysGh0st wrote:Besides my usual charitable donations last year, I donated a llama to the Heifer Project.
Of course you can!MarleysGh0st wrote:No, they say they keep their expenses down by aggregating donations together, so I won't get pictures of "my" llama or reports about which family it goes to. And, alas, that means I won't be able to suggest naming it "Meredith" or anything for an audition hook.PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Will they send you letters and pictures from your llama?
MarleysGh0st wrote:No, they say they keep their expenses down by aggregating donations together, so I won't get pictures of "my" llama or reports about which family it goes to. And, alas, that means I won't be able to suggest naming it "Meredith" or anything for an audition hook.PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Will they send you letters and pictures from your llama?
Well, I actually donated cash. They have a catalog of animals that they provide in their projects, with various prices, either for a whole animal or for a share of one. As the fine print says:geoffil wrote:How did you donate this animal?
So, truth be told, there's no specific animal that is "my" llama; they may not even be able to document that their mission for the coming year really was incremented by one llama as a result of my donation. But it's a polite fiction.Gifts made through this catalog represent a gift to the entire mission. To help the most number of families move toward self-reliance, Heifer does not use its limited resources to track gift animals from donation to distribution. We use your gifts where they can do the most good by pooling them with the gifts of others to help transform entire communities. And, because you are helping Heifer fight hunger and poverty, your gift is tax deductible.
Save the Children wrote:MarleysGh0st wrote:No, they say they keep their expenses down by aggregating donations together, so I won't get pictures of "my" llama or reports about which family it goes to. And, alas, that means I won't be able to suggest naming it "Meredith" or anything for an audition hook.PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Will they send you letters and pictures from your llama?
We were supposed to name it? I thought we were supposed to cook it! My bad........
*burp* Scuse me.......
It was pretty clearly a recorded message, with a long, silent delay after my answering machine started recording, typical of a robocall.silvercamaro wrote:Marley, as long as you got the more formal "thank you" in the mail, you should look upon the call simply as an added "We appreciate you very much."
Since it was on your machine, are you sure it was a robo call? Maybe it was a personal call, but the guy read something because he didn't really need you to call him back.