AARP
Reviews and Complaints
They claim to protect you from scam artists
I suggest no more enticements to join or pay dues. I don't pay dues to recieve items that I don't use and have to pass on. How about taking this expense and use it for your operating expenses?
AARP continually sends membership renewal mailings without the expiration date years in advance
- Your renewal policy
Ugly free gift
My Testimony
Not relevant or informative, waste of time, technical difficulties to boot
Rental car coverage scam
Preferred solution: Full refund
No discounts with aarp
Monthly premium
They sell or give out your cell number if you use AARP's discount for consumer cellular
I went from 0 spam calls a day to 8 -10 spam call per day when I joined AARP and switched to Consumer Cellular. Consumer Cellular insists they don't give out their consumers information, however thy sent me to AARP's website which explained in great detail why they collect and sell and or give away the data they collect on their members. Which is why I suddenly have an explosion spam calls. (And yes I'm on the "do not call list" which is usless because these calls... oh forget it, this organization is so outdated I'm sure they don't even know how "internet phone numbers" are used.
NO WAY would I ever join AARP again. They are marketing to old people, and while I might be technically old, I'm not 80 with one foot in the grave.
AARP's card, website, marketing, videos are an embarrassment. They are still marketing to baby boomers!! If they want to attract new customers, appeal to the next generation, they need to step up their game. In the USA, making it to 50 without dying is an accomplishment worth celebrating, make AARP (horrible name by the way) exclusive, platinum, status especially since we got this far without Universal Health Care.
Give me discounts we can use: on amazon prime, or Netflix, HBO apps - we stream our media, we are cord cutters. What you offer in discounts are useless to me and my friends.
Look at the statistics, there are more single people (including woman) than married people in 2017. So stop marketing to the blue hairs with the homemaker wife and her "provider." It is an insulting meme that needs to go.
It is a JOKE to be a member of AARP. And by that I mean literally you turn 50 and people laugh at you because you can now join AARP. Yup, the AARP jokes come flying fast. Are you proud of that branding?
And change your privacy policy
https://stayingsharp.aarp.org/privacy-policy
Because when I joined AARP for my "discount" for Consumer Cellular, my spam calls went from 0 per day to 8-10. Seriously? Why would you do that to your clients in today's climate?
You won't make it as a corporation without rebranding and making it worth something. I get the feeling you are like all the other companies, skimping to save money to pay those at the top well.
I read you could get a free doughnut with that ridiculous red card. Even that would be better than what you are offering. Your demographic is changing (or dying off) and if you don't update you will be replaced by a slicker, more modern company.
Being a member of AARP isn't worth it. (seriously do you think the Gen X and beyond will actually be able to retire in this climate of wealth inequality? Really?)
And become more GREEN, stop all the junk mail. I'm guessing your board still watches TV by Cable and has no idea how to reset their wifi password at home. I bet they need to call their children to get help with their computers, wifi modems, and don't know how to replace the cracked screen on their iPhone or even reset it back to its factory settings.
It is an obvious, gaping generation gap that will, in a few years, start hitting your bottom line. Your marketing shows me exactly who is running this company and so far? Not impressed.
NO WAY is it worth it. In the United States being old is not a status of honor, and AARP reinforces the insulting BIG UGLY RED CARD that screams, I'm OLD. I bet your board members are balding, overweight if not obese, unhealthy men and women (with short hair, because when you're old you cut your hair short) who are out of touch with this new generation who are your new clients now and in the future.
You are marketing to the "family value baby boomers" when, statistically the first time ever - there are more single people than married. Yet you use the meek "wife with her provider husband" to market your brand.
Your podcasts are for people 70, maybe 80. Your branding is outdated as is the "discounts" and services you offer.
It is so disappointing. That said, it is a perfect opportunity to capture the market you are ignoring and no nothing about. Maybe I'll start my own company, your competition. You stick with your branding to those who had rotary phones, and I'll offer discounts and services that are actually useful to the new "50's"
Your company smells like mothballs. And I don't know one person who is a member - except for me. I did it as a joke. And now that you've sold or given out my phone number I am rewarded by 8-10 spam calls a day. No one wants to be part of a joke. OPEN YOUR EYES times have changed!
- Ripoff of senior citizens
- Aarp branding is from the 1990s join the 21st century
Preferred solution: Join the 21 century and know your clients are savvy, clever and unlikely to retire.
Too big
- Disgusting
- Aarp
- Being referred to a bad company then aarp fails to protect me
Preferred solution: Split into quality senior care quit being crooks
AARP SUCKS
Trying to better life
AARP Politics
When I retired, I found I could keep the medical insurance that I had at work if I joined AARP. Since there were other benefits by joining, I signed up.
I have enjoyed some discounts by being a member. The issue I have with AARP is their liberal bent on issues in the magazine and TV commercials. All your members are not liberals. I do not like supporting an organization that constantly pushes the liberal agenda and whose current commercial on TV is so negative on the current state of the US.
My membership fees supporting issues I don’t want to support. I would like to see less bias on your communications.
- Discounts
- Liberal bias
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Same here sent to Ollinois Atturney Generals Office with formal complaint.
I see this all the time. And the "discounts" are just figments of the imagaination. You can get better discounts in other ways