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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Conyers GA
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STOP CALLING ME!!! (Privacy Questions)
Some asshat needs to have his keyboard shoved down his troat.
Over the past couple of days, I've gotten a number of phone calls from Mercedes Benz dealerships, all asking for some guy named Tony. I asked a few questions of them and learned that evidently "Tony" requested an internet quote on a Mercedes. And he gave them MY cell phone number as his contact information. So I have gotten call after call after call from individual dealers from all over the country trying to sell me a car. They say that they are all run seperately and can't remove my number from the main database and that I'll continue to get these calls indefinitely. That there's nothing they can do about it. It is annoying as shit. Not only that, but some of them are VERY pushy. Even when I tell them the situation and very pointedly ask them to remove my number, they start putting the moves on me. "Well, now that I have you on the phone, are you in the market for a new vehicle?" SHEESH! Another problem is that this is my work cell phone. I have to answer it (and I can't always tell from the caller ID if it's an important call or not). It has become a real nuisance. This phone # is registered on the Do Not Call List. But "Tony" provided it to them, so I can understand getting a call or two. But aren't companies supposed to have policies in place to remove you from their lists when you ask them to? Shouldn't Mercedes Benz be required to STOP CALLING ME?!?!?! If anyone has any insight into this, that would be great. I have searched for a privacy advocate type message board, but haven't found one yet. There's gotta be one out there, so if you know of something like that, please pass it along. |
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Coordinator
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Dayton, OH
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: The Hatch
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So you tell them that you don't know a Tony and the dude on the other end of the line is like, "ok, we'll remove you from the list, but just one last thing", and you're all like "WHAT?" and the dude goes, "I'm Tony", and you're like "OH SNAP!"
And we call it Mercedes 911. |
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Conyers GA
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General Manager
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: The Town of Flower Mound
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I blame Buzzbee...
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UTEP Miners!!! I solemnly swear to never cheer for TO |
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Conyers GA
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So I searched around some more for a message board that deals with stuff like this and thought I had found one. Until I clicked on the FIRST post that I saw:
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Colorado Springs
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So, KWhit...looking for a good deal on a car?
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: the yo'
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I suggest you dial all the permutaions of your number until you find out who tony is. And then after that you feed his info to as many spammers as possible. Try to see if they'll give you "your" last name even.
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: the yo'
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dola, address too. I'd send Tony all manner of dildo catalogues and bondage fetish furry magazine offers.
Last edited by stevew : 04-06-2007 at 03:23 PM. |
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Burke, VA
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While that stinks, the "Tony" has just risen to the top of my list of ways to get back at annoying assholes that piss me off.
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Conyers GA
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I would, but I think he did it intentionally. My number is one that lends itself to being stolen for these kinds of things (lots of repeated numbers). In fact, something similar happened to me a couple of years ago. Last edited by KWhit : 04-06-2007 at 03:26 PM. |
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Wisconsin
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Just tell them - "Mercedes? Why, I would be interested in a new Mercedes. What do they run, like $10K new? I only make $6.25 an hour but, with the new minimum wage law in place, I should be scoring a cool $7.50 an hour so, I think I could afford that."
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Big Ten Country
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This will be you after ten years of calls from dealerships.
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Oakland, CA
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Tony would make great revenge for this thread: http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/...ad.php?t=58063
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: A sports era long ago when everything didnt require a Nike logo
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I just put you on the mailing list so in a few days they will be sending out an instructional video and pamphlet for the DR TRIMMER MOWER. Please review the materials, a customer representative will be contacting you next week.
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