OAP'S - reduced rates

[pawl]

You are now on Saga's hit list, be ready for the junk mail.

Thats only the beginning.In the post this morning .Info about a residential care home in Leamington

You will now get calls post about stair lifts even if you live in a bungalow.Saga car 🚘 insurance Carbon aerodynamic Zimmer Frames.

 

[lane]

They are offering these discounts for their own commercial benefit because they want you as a customer and they are happy for you to take advantage because it increases their profit so you are doing them a favor by taking advantage. It would be rather silly not to.

 

[perplexed]

Quite right. I got my first over 50's letter last week. Talk about rubbing it in. I was only 50 last month.

I was in my 40s when I got my first 'Assisted Living' apartment brochure.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Isn't age discrimination illegal yet?

Make a test case of it.

As far as the op's question goes, all those organisations are private organisations and use it partly as a marketing tool. If it started costing them too much money they wouldn't do it. I have absolutely no moral issues about accepting the discounts, even though I do not need them.

 

[oldwheels]

I have a bus pass and a ferry card which gets me a return to Oban by public transport for £1.50.
I also have a discount on ferry fares for my car[ but not due to age] which is a considerable saving. I never give my age although my date of birth is the only ID the local surgery needs.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Similarly I know people who use student discount whilst being in full time employment and taking night courses.
It’s just a benefit, so use it.

I did that when I did evening classes about 15 years ago, bought Microsoft Office for something like £10 as an eligible student.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Pay all your dues and claim all your entitlements. It's how the system works.

 

[Dirk]

Similarly I know people who use student discount whilst being in full time employment and taking night courses.
It’s just a benefit, so use it.

My 70 year old brother in law retired, took his pension and then went back to his old job part time as a consultant. He also claims student dicounts as he works for a university.
So........he's on a state pension, a works pension, an income from his job which is more than he got full time and he's claiming student discounts.
He's also as tight as a duck's arse.
God knows what he does with all the money!

 

[slowmotion]

Isn't age discrimination illegal yet?

I thought that ageism is now a hate crime. I may have imagined that.

As you were....

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Quite right. I got my first over 50's letter last week. Talk about rubbing it in. I was only 50 last month.

That's not as bad as when my son turned 18, he got a letter the following week - "have you thought about assisted living for your parents?"

 

[Mo1959]

That's not as bad as when my son turned 18, he got a letter the following week - "have you thought about assisted living for your parents?"

Could have been worse....it might have been assisted dying!

 

[Deleted member 26715]

God knows what he does with all the money!

He's saving it until he needs it, then if the worst happens & he goes before you, he has it written into his will that you are to be advised exactly how much he has, that you are not getting your hands on it & giving it all to his cat, but you know he's only doing it to really pee you off.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Even though I'm now in my late sixties I don't see a lot of this stuff, Saga is the only one I see regularly.

 

[Milkfloat]

22 years ago I put a friend on a Saga mailing list to celebrate his 21st Birthday, his parents still get marketing materials posted to his name and their address today.

 

[BoldonLad]

They are offering these discounts for their own commercial benefit because they want you as a customer and they are happy for you to take advantage because it increases their profit so you are doing them a favor by taking advantage. It would be rather silly not to.

Exactly!