On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > For the last couple of weeks I've been coming home each day to voicemails > sent every hour by Barclaycard (essentially Visa) wanting to speak to the > people from whom I bought this house. Fifteen (yes, fifteen!) years ago! A > few times I've picked up the phone to answer them and told the people on the > other end that these people don't live here any more, and to stop calling > this number. I might as well piss into the Pacific for all the difference it > makes. I've even tried phoning the number they want the people to call, but > it's a robot with a menu that never leads to a human. Their website doesn't > want anyone to contact them unless they're an account holder, which I'm not. > Earlier today I found a very well-hidden Contact Us link on their site which > doesn't require me to hold an account with them before I can get in touch, > so I've sent them an email. Following that I went out to play squash, only > to come home 30 minutes ago to another 2 robot calls from these f_ckwitted > bell-ends and an auto-response to my email telling me that they're too busy > to get in touch and to wait for a few days. >
Bob, If you're on the do-not-call list, report them for violating it. As they do not have a business relationship with you, they are in violation. The folks who actually enforce the DNC list would love to have a clear target to hit, usually the problem children are fly-by-night operations. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
