Posted by Becca_FL on 7/17/07 11:53am
Msg #200314

Enough already, NNA!

If you really care about your members and are truly a not-for-profit for the benefit of notaries nationwide, please, please, please STOP SENDING ME CRAP IN THE MAIL!

I will not join your cult, I will not buy your products and I'm even more convinced of your mismanagement due to the incessant barrage of junk mail I have received from you in the past six months (two renewals this week alone). You are wasting your member's dues and creating excessive waste. I know this is probably ridiculous of me to ask but, do you even care? Maybe you should.

Reply by Pierces Notary Services on 7/17/07 12:54pm
Msg #200333

Amen to that! I'm not a member and never will be but I get bombarded with junk mail from them.

Reply by MistarellaFL on 7/17/07 12:55pm
Msg #200334

What Becca said!

I am getting both snail-mail and email from them...I am not a member, and have unsubscribed from email more than once.

Reply by C_in_OKC on 7/17/07 1:08pm
Msg #200339

I too am in the camp that wishes they would stop with the junk mail and junk e-mails. Everytime I receive an e-mail from them I attempt to unsubscribe but they respond saying that my e-mail addy is not in their system. Huh?!? It seems like it would be a violation of the Can-Spam act that there isn't a way to unsubscribe to their propaganda. Just another example to me of their ineptness.

Reply by Dennis D Broadbooks on 7/17/07 1:10pm
Msg #200340

I Went Through This Several Years Ago...

...& the only way I got the NNA to stop was to inform them I considered their advertising/marketing schemes to be a form of harassment. I spoke with several NNA employees by phone & let them know in no uncertain terms I was to NEVER be called or contacted again. It's been at least two years since I've received a phone solicitation, e-mail, or snail mail from them.

Reply by Lisa Prestegard on 7/17/07 1:58pm
Msg #200346

Here's what I did, Becca...

Every time they mailed me something, I would use THEIR postage-paid return envelope, tear their propaganda into tiny pieces, stuff it into their envelope (creating quite a bulky piece of mail), and send it back to them. They paid postage coming AND going
After a few of those, I stopped getting their crap in the mail. Apparently, they pieced together the torn up bits and found my 'member number' and removed me from their list.
Wrong of me? I don't think so. I saved their lemmings (members) money, IMO.
Definition of "Jackbags" in MY dictionary? The NNA.

Reply by jba/fl on 7/17/07 2:06pm
Msg #200350

Re: Here's what I did, Becca...

I do what Lisa does to all my junk mail, but I also included newspaper ads, clippings, etc., until I can just barely get it resealed. Capital One was hitting me tooooo much, for tooo long and couldn't get them to stop. If I don't ask for your stuff, maybe you will like mine. Hah!

Reply by CaliNotary on 7/17/07 2:20pm
Msg #200359

Re: Here's what I did, Becca...

I do the same thing every time I get something from the NNA

Reply by Lisa Prestegard on 7/17/07 2:22pm
Msg #200360

Great (evil) minds think alike, Cali n/m

Reply by Becca_FL on 7/17/07 2:31pm
Msg #200362

Re: Here's what I did, Becca...

Well, I'm not getting postage paid return envelopes anymore. I did what you all did back when it started a year or so ago, but now, no more postage paid envelopes.

Reply by Lisa Prestegard on 7/17/07 2:35pm
Msg #200365

Re: Here's what I did, Becca...

Mail it back to them without postage and without a return address. They will be charged the insufficient postage

Reply by Becca_FL on 7/17/07 2:41pm
Msg #200366

Hehehehehehehehe! Evil. n/m

Reply by John_NorCal on 7/17/07 4:54pm
Msg #200401

Re: Hehehehehehehehe! Evil. Look at it this way.......

mailing all their stuff back creates jobs for the post office and someone at NNA has to be paid to open and process all that junk. Although they probably get under paid signing agents to do that.

Reply by BrendaTx on 7/17/07 3:34pm
Msg #200386

Re: Here's what I did, Becca...

Great ideas.

Another idea...take their envelope and tape it to the outside of a larger envelope wherein you could place all kinds of amazingly weight albeit extremely thin items which fit nicely into an envelope. sheet metal, etc. Or...you could just toss their envelope into the trash.

Reply by Loretta Reed on 7/17/07 4:43pm
Msg #200399

Re: Here's what I did, Becca...

I guess the NNA is for people who were sucked into the "get rich quick" scheme and like it there.

Reply by snoopdogMs on 7/17/07 8:06pm
Msg #200438

Re: Here's what I did, Becca...

I will credit reading all the forums for about 90% of my agent education thanks to the great agents out there who share a wealth of useful, needed info. But....I cut my teeth with the NNA and am making about $3K a month. Not bad. They were my entrance into the field and then I took the reigns and galloped.

Reply by Loretta Reed on 7/17/07 8:30pm
Msg #200444

Re: Here's what I did, Becca...

The NNA would have been helpful if they would not talk every nieve person that they will make tons of money in this business and then suck money out of them. It is up to us to let these new signing agents know that "some" of their information is helpful and some is just straight out lies. . None, I hope. We live in a saturated business and it is the NNA's fault we are where we are. Congrats on $3k a month income. I hope that you don't do signings for $50 and then you will be one of many that are not killing the business are are actually helpihng it.

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

Reply by Julie/MI on 7/17/07 8:06pm
Msg #200437

They buy the notary lists from the state

I received a call from them 10 days ago wanting to know if I wanted to use my current notary commision by becoming a nsa if I attended their upcoming seminar in detroit.

I asked her where she got my info and she said she got it from the state. Then I told her that I had been closing loans since 1983 and I could teach the nna a few things. then she asked if I knew what a recission date was.....obviously she wasn't listening.

Reply by FLdocrunner on 7/17/07 9:40pm
Msg #200457

Re: They buy the notary lists from the state

Thats seems to be their biggest problem, they are no longer listening. To busy counting their money i guess.