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DILYSI Dave wrote:One of my co-workers got tired of the vinyl siding people calling him at work. To get back at them he finally agreed to let them come out for a quote. They were pissed when they showed up to a 120,000 square foot concrete warehouse that we were leasing.
Man... yet another instance where having a camera would have been brilliant
In reply to GameboyRMH:
I have to answer phones as part of my job and screwing with telemarketers distracts me from legitimate customer calls, so I can understand where he's coming from. Besides, my boss thought it was hilarious. He's actually pretty cool.
I got them when the Malibu hit three years old. When I told them it had 110,000 miles they said they couldn't help, they had no tables for that kind of mileage and never called again
amaff wrote:DILYSI Dave wrote:One of my co-workers got tired of the vinyl siding people calling him at work. To get back at them he finally agreed to let them come out for a quote. They were pissed when they showed up to a 120,000 square foot concrete warehouse that we were leasing.
Man... yet another instance where having a camera would have been brilliant
When i was at Ohio State they called my dorm room. I was living in Morril Tower at the time (20-some stories tall). I chatted prices and features back and forth for a good long time (at least 10-15 min) then I asked them how much for a 20+ story building. they were VERY confused. I wish i could have gotten them to show up at the dorm, that would have been awsome!
Keith wrote:The only people I can think of who need a 1999 Ford Taurus are maybe the Mythbusters, and not for good reasons.
I'd be hard pressed to think of better reasons for wanting a '99 Taurus than the ones the Mythbusters could come up with.
As far as I know those calls are a scam. I used to get them several times a day for a month or so (many other people i knew did too) but it has fiinally stopped.
It looks like the FTC is going to be banning robodialer telemarketers, effective this September. They also require these calls to start with some sort of message about how you can opt out of their calls by pushing a button, effective now. If the message doesn't start with one of those, it's automatically a scam.
http://www.ftc.gov/os/2008/08/R411001tsrfrn.pdf
Unfortunately, they made an exemption for politicians. Who are probably the most annoying robodialer users, but also the ones writing the FTC's paychecks.
Regarding robodialers in general, I get 4-10 calls a day from DTE, a legitimate energy company, because someone decided to give them a random phone number, mine, and then not pay any of their bills. If I want to talk to a human being, I have to wait on hold for a good five minutes, so that I can tell them they have the wrong number. Then I get the usual,
"are you in any way related to the woman we are trying to reach?"
"No, not at all, I've never heard of this woman prior to receiving your calls."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes I'm berkeleying sure you retard, if you don't believe me, send the collections agency, you're calling a cellphone you dipE36 M3s, a phone number I've had in my name for about 10 years!"
"Ok, we'll update our files."
About a week goes by with no calls, then they start coming again.
make up some other number(preferrably a direct line to someone at the company) and tell them the next time they call that suzie so-and-so changed her number, but here is the new one. or start recording the calls and sue them via some obscure fcc reg. some of them mandate fines payable to the victim
If you search online, the warranty calls are a phishing scam. When I was recieving them numerous times a day I did some research to try to figure out what they were about, and they are illegal as far as I know. Thankfully it has mostly stopped now. It was starting to get annoying.
