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Salesman from this company will waste an hour of your time, will ask you to fill research form etc. only for purpose to convince you to become a member and pay members fee. I found my research form in the garbage after the salesman left my office. They don't need your opinion - they need only your money. They visit small businesses and explain how it is important to express your opinion via this company and it is the only way to bring information to the congressman. And you have to pay. Then your opinion will be in garbage - it doesn't go to your congressman.
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My husband made the mistake of becoming a member. He post dated the payment for 30 days, I cancelled it 7 days (June 3rd) later by calling their office and speaking directly with Betty Butler. As of June 27th, they have taken the payment out of our account. If this isn't dishonest, I don't know what is.
The salesman in our area is a real tool spouting nothing but right wing agenda. They like to show you a list of other people (your peers) who have signed on to whatever hyperbole they think will get you to cut a check. Very, very shady. You can get the same services emailed to you by congress.org or megavote for FREE. Or write a letter and put it in the mail. They use the scare tactic, normally on small business owners who think they are joining some kind of club that gives them more influence, it's a crock.
I have been a member and also know some of the reps personally. Anyone can choose to not think it a worthwhile endeavor but there is no reason to call it a waste or simply a scam. For some of us it is very worthwhile and we all can choose to be a part or not. I would also bet that if you own your business you need to make "sales" to earn a living, so what is the problem with people making a living providing a worthwhile service.
If you are interested in the bills that have been introduced in congress or the senate and what stages they are in ... you can use opencongress.org at no charge.
Well, data costs money. It did 50 years ago and it does today. I tried opencongress.org and guess what I got? Nothing. No web page and definitely no data. Nothing is free and if it is free to the end user you have to be worried about who is paying for it and therefore has the right to determine what information you get to view for free. govtrack.us is owned by a government contractor. You get what you pay for. Good is seldom cheap and cheap is seldom good.
My personal experience confirms the original post. The salesmen come door to door to small businesses. Two came to mine and they were quite persistent. Their premise is that they just want me to participate in a survey. (In my case it was about illegal immigration.) The real purpose of the visit, though, is to get you to become a member. It is unclear what the benefits may be. I certainly don't need them to write my congressman (or woman), and I cannot imagine many congressmen and women read piles of canned mail anyways. However, the survey, and the premise of the office visit is a ruse. Their website is very vague about the concept of "membership" and the salesmen avoided it. I had been to their website, though, and once I said "Thank you, but I am not interested in purchasing a membership, " they left without so much as a look back.
I'm afraid I don't understand, were they supposed to look back and try and force you to be a member? Yep. They sound really pushy to me.
I like them a lot! Who has the time these days to manage congress. This program actually works. I have now a working relationship with my federal, and very important to me and my business, my state lawmakers. If you are a member ask your rep to show you how to get to the regulatory agencies for your state, as my rep did. It is awesome, you actually can talk to the directors of the agencies. I am a highly regulated business, now the director of the department and I have a working relationship. I highly support the efforts of the group. Yes, they walk door to door. My rep is committed to her work as she says, to keep government in the hands of the people themselves. She is not out there for any other goal. A 21 year member of National write your congressman.
I am a moderate Democrat business owner in Santa Fe, NM, and when the NWYC rep stopped in and showed me their program a couple of years ago, I was hesitant because I had been a member of both the US Chamber of Commerce and the NFIB and while they claimed to be non-partisan, it was obvious they are very Republican. I signed up (with some trepidation) but I want to be informed and involved on political issues I care about for my business and personally (I do not have much time for researching all this myself) and I have found this organization lives up to what it told me it was about and what it would do. And, by the way, I do everything by email, and their website seems professional, well-designed, and easy to use. Now, since I've come to their defense and given them my "thumbs-up"; maybe they will give me a free year's membership? LOL - just joking. I consider them to be a good investment.
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Even if you can get this info for free, do you really have the motivation and discipline to actually do it on a meaningful and consistent basis? Probably not. If you want to make a difference, then don't discount NWYC.
National Write Your Congressman was probably a great organization in the 1950's. Today what they offer is overpriced and available for free elsewhere.
What you are paying for is a monthly email filled with biased information about Congress that is available for free elsewhere. They have a website that looks circa-1994.
They advertise that they are non-partisan but after having been a member for a year I can tell you this is not true. They are conservative.
Try http://www.govtrack.us/ for completely non-biased information about your congressman. Plus, they are free.
You could not be more wrong.
Yes, they are soliciting membership in their information services, but it is reasonable for any company providing a service to be paid for said service. All opinion ballots are forwarded to the appropriate lawmaker, regardless of whether or not you choose to participate. If yours was put into the garbage, it is a violation of company policy and they should be notified. That kind of event would be a very isolated incident.
YOU are the one who chose to invest an hour. You could have at any time stopped the presentation. It is not forced onto anyone.
You say their only motive is to make money. Not true. They are committed to a worthy cause of helping responsible Americans have an easy way to have an effective voice in Congress. Small business owners are busy and have little time to sort through the mountains of proposed legislation that comes out of Washington (and the State capitals), and yet they are very affected by what gets passed in Congress. NWYC provides an easy, quick, and unbiased way for them to be informed, and then to have a fast way of communicating their opinions to their lawmakers.
I just went through a sales attempt myself, and I can see both points. It does, however, seem like you are defending them vigorously which typically wood meme you either work for them or are somehow connected to them and are trying to protect their image very diligently. If they were so good of a company with so much to offer, why would it take an actual salesman who use no less than three sales tactics to go through an entire presentation before they say anything at all about wanting money. The beginning 15 minutes made it sound like they were doing everything for the right reasons, and that they were being supported bye heavy government hitters. Which would mean they should be somehow monetarily supported without the need to request a minimum of $500 annually from someone. In my opinion if what they were doing is so heartfelt and patriotic, and if everything was being done for the right reasons with absolutely nothing 2 hide, they should choose not to hide the fact that they will be asking for money at the end of their presentation. It should be the business owners choice to continue or end that presentation based on all information needed, including what ultimately will be asked for. So do not say that small business owners are voluntarily going through the entire thing voluntarily and that we could have stopped it at any time, when I was doing it because I was...1, slightly interested in making my opinion heard on 1 major topic right now. Guns/shootings & gun control. And two, i had no idea that there were going to be ulterior motives by being sold. If everything works so smoothly around smartphones and apps, as the presentation so eloquently touchdown multiple times, then maybe it would be easier to have that amount reduced if the odds were higher of more people signing up! I may have done it, regardless of the offense I felt at being sold to, if there was simply a monthly fee like normal apps or normal services. I feel possibly $9.95 per month is something that I could have said yes to, & possibly could be an option as a fallback offer if the business owner declined to be able to do any of the primary one time pledges. And personally in my opinion I believe many MANY more people would say yes to that as their bare minimum versus being asked for $500 per year from a company we would know nothing about prior to them walking through our door. That being the case, if the percentage of people accepting were perhaps 20 or 25% higher due to that change, I think overall there would be a large increase in their participation. This is just my opinion, but then again opinions are what we're talking about here aren't they?!
The $495 is for 2 members. It’s 100% tax deductible for business owners. $495/2= $247.50/12 = $20.62 a month to have easy access to information, a research team that you can have do research specifically for you, and multiple tools to hold legislators accountable. Not much of a scam.