Sucker lists and Samaritans

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Similar to the Milk Man that brought milk to our door in the 1940s.

Now for today!

In any business at times you learn more than you need to know. I became familiar with a man who built custom insulated  windows. He made millions building affordable windows and he has a good product. I used them a few times.

Once in a conversation I mentioned that I had made a donation to a certain charity and all of a sudden many charities were writing me.

He laughed, Jack you are referred to in the trade as a ‘sucker’. My side business is a ‘Phone Sweatshop’. I have 15 operators who do nothing all day but call people on the phone for charities, retailers and anyone wanting to reach a certain segment of society. My guys make the calls most people despise, but it serves a purpose.

To point these calls to the proper audiences I buy ‘Sucker lists’. Of course that is ‘slang’ only used in the business, to others it is a list of 'People who have responded positively to ANY requests via phone.' When you respond or even talk positive that number is flagged.

So when I donated in response to that letter from the Salvation Army or Habitat, I became a sucker.  That made me sick inside. THAT LIST is not a list of ‘SUCKERS’ but a list of good-hearted people. BUT someone has learned  how to make a buck of human generosity by selling their phone number for another charity or business.

In the last few years it has morphed into lists of e-mail addresses. Now my in-basket is full of SPAM.

I will continue this tomorrow into an inspiration from Myra’s blog about Good Deeds or Samaritan acts. We are tired but back in North Carolina, after ‘committing’ an act of kindness.

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