We were at ATT looking at adding one of our kids to our plan.
Guy said we could join AARP & get a discount, per line. Math works out to us paying the same per month as we do now, while adding a line & device.

Anything I'm missing in this being a no brainer?trainer?

Looked like spending $15/mo [AARP] to save $30/mo [ATT]

Edit: I think it's was $15/yr for saving $30/mo

AARP is a very liberal organization.

Look into AMAC, and what's available through them.

https://amac.us/

Currently not interested in the actual benefits of the group, I suppose. Was more just for the ATT discount

Agreed

FUCK AARP!!!! Those muthafuquers pushed for and supported ObamaCare. I will never do anything with/for those bastards. Period!

AARP is very anti-gun. I won't have anything to do with them.

I agree with ridgerat on AMAC. And I agree with everyone else on this thread regarding AARP. Your membership dollars will, in part, go to totalitarian candidates and causes. It's about like casting your vote for Kamala.


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Do not feed the commies.

Instead look into something like Cricket. No AARP or any other membership required.

They use the exact same AT&T network and my price went to just over half what I was paying AT&T and without all those misc. fees that run the bill up even more. I also now get unlimited everything.
In fact it's a subsidiary of AT&T. Why they do that, I don't know but it's real and they are much easier to deal with than the major carriers.

The only issue for some, you need to be out of contract, and have a phone that's paid off that will allow you to change. In my case I already had that.

I've had zero negative issue and have had it for over a year.

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AARP is worse than the NRA for 3rd party “affiliate” mailings, emails and phone calls

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I agree with ridgerat on AMAC. And I agree with everyone else on this thread regarding AARP. Your membership dollars will, in part, go to totalitarian candidates and causes. It's about like casting your vote for Kamala.


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I’m not sure the net political effect of giving $15 to AARP is worse than giving $360 extra to ATT.

I get three or more pieces of mail a week and daily emails from AARP begging my deceased wife to renew her membership, despite returning several marked DECEASED RETURN TO SENDER. They ARE as bad as NRA. And just like the NRA used to, they offer a variety of cheap Chinese made crap merchandise to try to sweeten the deal.

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Originally posted by TigerDore:
I agree with ridgerat on AMAC. And I agree with everyone else on this thread regarding AARP. Your membership dollars will, in part, go to totalitarian candidates and causes. It's about like casting your vote for Kamala.


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I’m not sure the net political effect of giving $15 to AARP is worse than giving $360 extra to ATT.

That's the net of my thought process as well

From slightly older friends, prepare for a constant, broad and unstoppable onslaught of junk calls, spam, mail, email and other general bullshit. Unstoppable.

For that reason, we've tried to pretend they don't exist and never let them know we do either.

Isn't Mint Mobile $15 a month?

Is Patriot Mobile something to look into?

"Joined" AARP just to get the ATT discount. Most likely will not need to renew it. You'll get a lot of emails until you put a stop to it, but worth it for the ATT discount.

I joined AARP when I was around 10 years old. Everyone got mail at home, Rural Route 3, Box 330 Cottonwood, AZ. 86326. I didn’t get shit, so I joined a bunch of mail order crap back then.

Columbia House and BMG, but that’s a different story for a different thread.

I swear to the love of God, those pieces of shit will follow you to the end of the earth. Multiple “return to sender” contacting them and asking to be removed, I have lived in 17 addresses since then.

They still have me in their database and still contact me regularly.
The upside, if there is an upside to being a member of the communist party, is that I’ve been a member for about 39 years.

Most die before that level of membership.

Probably on the older edge of the elite clientele here - but joined AARP simply to get the discount on Medicare Supplement Part G. Saved ~$40/month if I was an AARP member (signed up for AAPR/UnitedHealthcare) - far offsetting the $5 annual AARP fee. Toss/delete any propaganda they send my way.

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Probably on the older edge of the elite clientele here - but joined AARP simply to get the discount on Medicare Supplement Part G. Saved ~$40/month if I was an AARP member (signed up for AAPR/UnitedHealthcare) - far offsetting the $5 annual AARP fee.

My wife and I did the same thing, for the same reason. When AARP renewal time came around, I asked them whether we had to be members in order to continue the Medicare Supplement Plan (we chose Part J). Their reply was that you have to be an AARP member to join the plan, but once you have the plan, you do not need to be an AARP member in order to maintain the plan. We dropped AARP membership ten or fifteen years ago and we still have the same UHC / AARP Medicare Supplement.

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Do not feed the commies.

Ordinarily, I would go with "if it gives you a net financial benefit" or if you get some other value from it.

But, in the case of AARP and especially after seeing their ads where someone says, "I don't agree with every position AARP has...." I say, fuck em and the horse they rode in on.

Yeah, my $15 or whatever membership fees they charge and my one body isn't going to mean much, but I'll be damned if they can count my body as part of their membership.