Membership

As a newer member, I find AARP to be pretty great, and I'll continue to be a member. But I have a criticism of some of the deceptive and manipulative marketing tactics used by either AARP or AARP-sanctioned partners. These are: 1) Marketing mail that use cards that appear at first like a gift card of value, but really are just print outs of the "savings" you could get if you buy the insurance, etc. 2) Fake polls.   An example is answering poll questions like, "Do you support Social Security?".   These are blatantly just to get clicks, and are not good faith gathering of information. Using these tactics on a population of people with increased susceptiblity of deception isn't a good look.  I'd prefer AARP have a set of standards for marketing that prevented the low-brow tactics. Again, overall great, just offering criticism if it helps.   

I've been a AARP member for many years.   I always hear and see advertisements about a free gift.   I've never, ever received a free gift ever upon auto renewal or my initial enrollment .  How come?  I should have received about  5 gifts by now.....no?

I enjoy playing AARP games but anymore too much time is wasted on long playing advertisements.  I do not like waiting 5, 10 or more minutes while an ad I am not interested in plays.. I used to be able to skip ad, but now the wheel that spins for free coins covers up the skip ad. Very disgusted.

I would like to change the name on my second membership person. How how do I go about that?

I received this trunk organizer for my membership renewal. I love it! Thanks, AARP! Here are those pics: 

It appears that the charging port was not populated.  When you plug in the charging cord it does not appear to do anything and when you look at the receptacle it is only a plastic hole with no electrical contacts.  Of course the charging light does not come on.

Hello everyone,My name is Pascal, I am from Nigeria in Africa. I am 32 years old and new to this community.I am happy to join you all. I would love to make friends, learn about American culture, and share about my Nigerian culture too.How is everyone doing today? Thank you for welcoming me.Pascal

Every day I get an email from AARP with the subject “Don’t forget! Finish setting up your AARP membership”. I have been a member for years, and am paid up until 2031. Why am I getting this email every day and how do I stop it? Thank you!

The link for the discount at Walmart plus (on the AARP website) is broken / dead.  It does not take me anywhere, and Walmart cannot honor the discount without this.

can i get a copy of my 2025 membership statement

I received dozens of AARP renewal letters in the last year or so, often promoting a soon-to-expire special rate that is it special and isn't expiring. I generally support what AARP does, but i'm not renewing because I don't support this manipulative, annoying marketing.

Is there any special membership rate for seniors over 100 years old - I am my siblings have memberships, but our mom doesn’t and I am wondering if it would be worth her while on her extremely tight budget.

I renewed my member in August. The advertisement offered a charging hub. I haven't received my gift nor any communication about it. I received my cards and information.

Please cancel my renewal membership next year

Hello, I signed up for AARP for the first time in October last year after getting a mailing offering a "grab and go cooler" (the mailer referenced my upcoming birthday) but haven't received the cooler yet or any kind of gift. I signed up online instead of sending in the card, was the gift contingent on using the card?  Thanks

I have received several membership renewal letters stating that my membership has not been paid for 2022-2023 year And is expiring. However it was paid online back in September 2022. I received my new membership card today. So what gives and I don’t want to see the excuse that it’s an automated process. I am requesting of SVP Stephanie Miles that automated billing notices Be in line with reality. This is ridiculous. I don’t care if the letter states “PS please disregard this notice if you recently renewed your membership”. I’m sure I’m not the only member that gets these things which starts off earlier in the year by multiple renewal letter request months before renewal date and the associated membership cards. This is a waste of AARP’s resources and natural resources.

I have been on this board since 2008 and for only a member of AARP for the 1st year or so - It has been nice guys and I hope I have helped some of you, have not irritated others too much and brought some joy and perhaps laughter to others.I find that I do not want to continue with this community any longer - So I wish you all well.  Bye Now I hope I can completely delete me from the board.  

My son is an AARP member. He is also incarcerated. The problem is that his state ID number is not being printed on the AARP Magazine mailing label, so hes not getting the mags. They are being returned due to missing information. His state ID# is on the AARP account, why is not being printed on the mailing label?. If he can’t get the magazines, I will not ontinue the membership. Due to his current situation, the magazine is the only benefit for him. If he can get it, then I will not keep paying for his membership or mine     His name is Samuel  Byrd, Membership# 351 621 983 3

Recently I received a letter signed by S.F. Miles (Senior Vice President, Membership) offering membership in AARP with a birthday discount of up to 45%. But none of the 3 subscription choices offered includes a 45% discount.  Eiehter Ms Miles' is trying to trick people whose math skills have diminished, or she didn't bother to check her own math skills.  The choices offered are:#1 1 year for $20 discounted to $15 (that's a 25% discount)#2  3 years for $55 discounted to $38 (that's a 31% discount)#3  5 years for $79 discounted to $55 (that's only a 30% discount). It looks to me like Ms Miles blew the math on choice #3. Not only is it a lesser discount than choice #2 even thought it's a longer period, it also looks like she wrote down the rate multiplier (55%) rather than the answer ($79 x 55% = $43.45).  It looks to me like AARP owes anyone that signed up for the 5 year option for $55 a refund of $11.55.

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I was playing some games today to gain points, and realized that I was being awarded points as if I were not a member, even though my membership doesn't expire for 2 days.  It is evening, so I can't contact customer service until tomorrow.  This happened to me before.  Has this happened to other people?

 My AARP membership card says my membership expires on 7/31/26 - so on 7/30/26 I should still be awarded rewards points as a member.  But even though games and videos and quizzes showed the correct amount of points for a member before I played, after I played I was awarded points as a non-member.  For example, a quiz that awards 450 points for a member showed that many points before I played - but I received 300 points.  For a video that awards 300 points for a member, I received 200 points. I have been debating whether to renew my membership, given all the glitches experienced with the rewards program on a regular basis.  This seems to be another.  The rewards program was my primary reason for being an AARP member, but I'm less and less inclined to renew given all the ongoing problems.  Isn't the expiration supposed to start at 11:59pm on the expiration date on your membership card?  

My plan was $19 + 5 for unlimited talk and text. My sister had the same plan and had she not checked their plans we would never had known our plans were obsoleted months ago and replaced with a lower cost plan ($19) with more data. No notification to anyone still paying more on a plan that no longer exists. CC told me they had no way to notify those paying more. I'll bet they have a way to notify everyone if the price goes up. Plus they told me they had no way of telling me how many months I was paying $5 more than I should have. They acted as though they were doing me a favor by refunding $5 for the month I called. Check your plans! AARP was aware of this but they didn't tell me of any notifications to it's members.

 I've been paying for multi-year memberships to AARP, and last took a 5 year special.  Yet, I keep getting ENDLESS requests to signup for automatic annual enrollment - even though my current end date is in 2033 !!  Enough already!  I rarely if ever want to sign up for automatic annual enrollments (anywhere), I want to choose, and I can often get better price by doing a multi-year signup.  I should be able to choose to be removed from continuous nags, and really shouldn't be contacted about memberships when I'm paid 7 years into the future.

AARP constantly sending renewal mail is a pain and very wasteful! I have until12/31, and for you to continue to send out reminders is just ridiculous! Just stop it!