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[estirose]

Dear ACLU pledge people,

"I will think about it" is a polite dismissal, not an invitation to keep calling me.

Signed,
The person who is thinking about not donating to you next year because of this.

Comments

[megaptera]

I stopped being less-than-firm about it a long time ago. If I get calls for charity or for sales, I politely interrupt and say "I'm not interested" or "I've already done my charity donations for this year" (which, really, are more volunteer work than money I don't have), and then I hang up without letting them continue. They are trained to take advantage of politeness and unwillingness to hang up or interrupt. So I do those things politely and firmly.

[estirose]

I'll keep that in mind for next time; I sent them a polite-but-irritated message saying that I didn't appreciate being called.