[EMAIL PROTECTED] hunted and pecked out this message on 8/18/2002 1:27 PM
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carol Hansen Grey) >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Emailer Talk) >This has nothing to do with Emailer, but since there was a discussion >about SPAM that led to comments about telemarketing calls, I thought some >of you might be interested in a new service offered by PacBell that has >effectively eliminated EVERY telemarketing call (I work out of my home >and I used to average 15-20 telemarketing calls a DAY). It's called >Privacy Manager. This is all well and good but why should we have to buy something like that? I found the same results by simply getting Caller ID and not picking up on the calls that display no number. They get tired after a while, think it's a fax line and don't call back. I have had 0 telemarketers call this week, one last week, and one the week before. When I first got home, I had like 20 calls per day, especially those who were trying to take advantage of my situation from reading the papers (those scumbags that own realty companies and dating services, financial advisors and long term care facilities, wasted NO time assuming I was in need of their services, used car salesmen who prowl the 'hood looking for idled cars, and even one driveway sealer who was going to charge me 5 times the going rate for the same job I had done for $250!) I even got a persistent and upsetting computerized call on my answering machine from some agency claiming to be NON-profit who could HELP me with "all my unpaid bills" as they had access to and had seen all my credit records and that it was a totally free service sanctioned by the pope......blah blah blah and why on earth wasn't I calling them right away? This one was too good to pass up so I called them back and threatened them with a lawyer if they did not stop upsetting people by telling them they had seen their credit records in a recorded message. (They had NOT) The woman I spoke to then asked me, "You mean you DON'T want help with all your unpaid bills?". I nearly took her head off and explained that I DIDN'T HAVE (you fool!) any unpaid bills whereupon she began to argue with me that this could not be possible....Is that harrassment or what? She then finally agreed to stop calling me, but not until she had added the request to please tell others who had unpaid bills of their service if I would! That was the last straw. I told her I had NO idea who had unpaid bills and would NEVER refer them to her, even if I did!!! That felt good! LOL They never called me again. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
