you can only give blood every 90 days, i believe it is..so the calls stop for 90 days, then they remind you that your blood is needed to help others! and, if you are totally a selfish person, it helps with that too! you feel good about yourself for doing it..so it is a win win situation! they also give out tickets to ball games, sweatshirts, and other stuff to get people to give..
Just do it, trust me, what goes around , comes around. Someday you may need some blood yourself!
Yeah - the point being though, that they should quit calling people who have told them they don't want to donate blood. As for being "selfish", some of us are not able to give blood due to medical conditions and/or vaccinations received overseas.
I also gave blood over a year ago and continue to get calls from NY Blood Center CONSTANTLY from a variety of #s, even AFTER telling them periodically that I can't come in until further notice for medical reasons. I keep programming the numbers they use into my phone, but this was a relatively new one. Their mission may be valuable and urgent, but using shady and agressive tactics including harrassing people at work and changing numbers at random so they can "catch" you on the phone doesn't give me a lot of faith in this organization. I keep wishing there were another way to give blood in NYC that doesn't involve them.
Don't know who this was because I didn't answer. I've taught my employees not to answer calls where the name is blocked and this one was. We just hit the speaker and hand up. If this was a blood center they are way off base. They are calling from New York and my office is in Texas. Good luck getting us to donate up there. No reputable company blocks their name when they call and they sure don't try to solicit blood donations 2000 miles away.