Holy Crap!

Yesterday, I was busy getting kids ready for school and Tony had just left for work. A few minutes after he left he called me and asks if he received some kind of such and such in the mail last week. I said no. He insisted that he must have received this something or other and he jogs my memory a bit and I tell him, "oh I thought it was junk mail and I tossed it." He fussed a little bit and suggested that I look through the can before the magic truck passes through our street and takes it away. I laughed at him and said "fine, you go have a nice day." Later, the urgency in his voice did somehow wear me down and I went to the street, pulled the big blue can into my garage and closed the door so that my neighbors could not see me going through my own garbage and after I found the plump bag of discarded paper, I hauled the can back out to the curb.

Long story short, he donated $100 to the high school volleyball team [which he neglected to mention] in return for the thing I thought was crap. Let me tell you that I am all about helping out and donating whenever we can for worthwhile and needy endeavors wherever they may be. It's just that I very much dislike crap.

This is the email communication between the two of us that followed.

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From: Mel
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 12:08 PM
To: Tony
Subject: how i have wasted my time this morning

hi sweet man,

i have spent at least 30 minutes today schlepping through our trash and finally found your great rebate garbage. let me say to you that i had ripped into pieces initially because it screamed SCAM to me when i read the first paragraph and that since you did not COMMUNICATE to me that we were waiting for this big windfall document i had no idea that it was meaningful to YOU.

#1 i have read the entire document and it IF it even works it is an ENORMOUS amount of work to get this supposed rebate

#2 i have done a little bit of research on the internet and all signs point to SCAM

#3 if you could produce for me, a real person, who has ACTUALLY received a visa card that ACTUALLY WORKED i would happily do all the crapload of work for you to get the $$ in visa cards for us.

#4 if you cannot produce a person for me, you may just write this one off to a donation to whatever or whoever scammed you into it in the first place.

#5 the mail contained TWO pages of instructions on how to claim your visa card, and NO secret code, yes i said no code was there, and you apparently need this secret code to register.

i love you sweetheart, hope your day is marvelous.

mel

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RE: how i have wasted my time this morning
From: Tony
To: Mel


I am glad to see you are cheerful and full of confidence! We will get $ 50/ month if we play this right and I will split them with you 50/50.

I will find a person that has succeeded with this and will get the feedback.

Love,

Tony

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From: Mel
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 1:50 PM
To: Tony
Subject: one more thing

ok fine, i did find a code...i would still like to talk to a person who has been successful with this!

xoxo

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RE: one more thing
From: Tony
To: Mel

Making progress babe !


OK, hey it's me again. However this plays out I will follow up and let you know. If you know about this kind of thing please let me know. It's part of a fundraiser deal. You sign up, send them 9.95, pick a store [Costco for us] and send in $100 worth of receipts each month, and you get $25 a month in visa card. Same deal for gas, so hypothetically we would get two $25 visa cards each month for one year. Here is the website if you want to peek and tell me what you think. I told him this morning "fine, next time make a donation but don't buy into any extra stuff." At this point I don't know if it's legit or not. And I know it's going to be more crap work than I need!