To be pissed off with myself re Bounty - help me take action

[WhatWillSantaBring]

I knew it was coming! I know my rights! I'm a lawyer, FFS, and I still got conned into giving my bastard details to the bounty woman in hopsital following the birth of my DC2.

However, I was sufficiently lucid to clearly think - "it's ok, I have not been asked to consent to marketing". My sketchy knowledge of the DPA is that they are now therefore in breach of it, as my details have been sold to third parties. Anyone want to help me with how I make a complaint to the ICO? Or maybe this is a campaign for Which? (I'm a member)

Or will a complaint do nothing. These bastards must be stopped!

I loved my Bounty packs. I gave a fake phone number so was never bothered there. Checked in my BFF's Bounty pack last week and it was even more stuffed with goodies than mine was 8 years ago. Samples, full sized products and coupons. What is not to love?

Have a NYE baby, no one to be seen next morning ! Got away with that one.

Blimey, a bunch of samples and all logic goes out the window. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

I also opted out of marketing and was inundated.

I note on the job advert that Bounty are an equal opportunities employer.

I don't think I would be comfortable with a male Bounty employee - especially as they would not be a HCP.

Ah, how lovely. "you will be working alongside HCPs and new mums ".

After reading about devil's offspring Bounty reps on here I was ready. I growled at the woman who tried to give me the pack of utter shite and a firm 'no thank you' seemed to do the trick.

She never returned, even though we were on the post natal ward for four days. Interestingly enough all other mothers accepted the Bounty pack.

I don't think I'd have found a male Bounty worker any worse than the female one I saw. Was it OK for her to barge in because she was female?

This time around I too said no. I was then just offered the bag but smiled and said no thank you to that too.

This time I was actually more offended by the woman offering to do the ceramic footprints for £70!!!! No one bought that, funnily enough.

I think I got off lightly, or encountered a rare new specimen - a bounty rep with feelings/conscience. She simply popped her head around the curtain, took one look smiled and whispered 'I'll just leave this here'.
No asking for details or photos or barging in or benefit lies - odd?!?
Unless she felt a bit sorry for me as I was quite poorly and DS was asleep at the side of me looking all of his (humongous-or felt like) 10+lbs.
If she hadn't I'd have fashioned a noose out of the drips to deter her.

Combine, if they all behaved like that there'd be less of an issue.

I have just found this job advertisement for Bounty. It states that they earn 'commission only'

Yep. If they can't force you to sign up, then they don't get a penny. Fairly huge incentive to lie, let alone adopt high pressure sales techniques.

Perhaps ^"Your commission-only employment status is not my problem. Go away and stop harassing me or I will make a formal complaint" should be made into printouts pregnant women can get from a MN link, pack in their birth bags, and hand over in the hospital as needed. I could have bloody well done with one - would have got rid of her, I think, when nothing I had the energy to say did the trick.

Having been wise to the Bounty issue thanks to MN, I was all geared up ready to give them what for if they came a-knocking when I had DC1. However, after a traumatic birth, 48 hours of no sleep, a shocking number of stitches and still being attached to a catheter, and having been visited by her 3 times in 24 hours, I took the path of least resistance and handed over all my details . I've been bombarded with mailing crap ever since.

Recently found out I'm pregnant with DC2 conceived just so I can have a second attempt at telling a Bounty rep to fuck off

Wuxiapian Sun 02-Mar-14 12:59:58
Can't believe this thread is still going.

Do you work for them? O_o

Not at all, Ginger :)

Yes, I think they're a PITA and, yes, I do believe it's an invasion of privacy, but, saying "no" really shouldn't be that hard.

I'd just come out of a Cat 1, life saving emergency section when Bounty started wheeling herself about the ward. My words were not minced. She walked away.

I have a plan to pretend I think they are a HCP and flash my vagina at them and ask them to check my tear please.

giraffe

giraffes!! :)

saying "no" really shouldn't be that hard

But people don't realise they can say no, especially when Bounty women tell them they need the pack for their child benefit form, and demand details without explaining it's not compulsory to give them.

@WhatWillSantaBring

> I've made DOTD!!!!

Thanks MNHQ - I will definitely take this further, as I know they are in breach of the DPA by selling my details without my consent. Regardless of their arguments for having reps on wards (I think it's utterly wrong, but I can see that is just my opinion) breaches of the DPA are facts that can't be denied!

Do let us know what happens WhatWillSantaBring

And anyone else who has had a relatively recent experience with Bounty that you think was out of line - do please complain to the hospital. It's the hospitals who have individual contracts with Bounty, and the hospitals who decide whether to renew these contracts - so that really is (we think) the best way to get something done. And please do copy us in on any correspondence if you'd like to - [email protected].

Totally the wrong thread. Sorry.

Fuck complaining through the usual channels. Ask them into your bay and then proceed to strip off, flash your lady garden, and ask them to change a nappy for you as you are airing your Parts.