[Rhodes22-list] Credit Scams - Telemarketers - PITA

[Brad Haslett]

Slim,

I'm usually polite but firm with telemarketers and one loud  "I am not a
prospect!", does the trick.  This guy yesterday wouldn't let go.  "Look
buddy, I know it's 3AM where you are and you're just trying to earn a
living, but you do understand English well enough to know the meaning of NO,
don't you?"  He did call me on my home phone.  If they call me on my cell
phone I threaten to send them the bill for the minutes.  It doesn't do any
good, one guy who sells construction supplies calls me once a week anyway.
Man, does that ever piss me off.  I think I'll just forward all the calls to
you from now on and let you handle them.

Brad

On 8/18/07, Steven Alm <stevenalm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We're about to start getting hit on our cell phones.  Millions of numbers
> are now for sale.  Woe be upon the ear of the first one to call me.
>
> Slim
>
>
> On 8/17/07, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The days of easy credit is probably over - about damn time.  Am I the
> only
> > one getting calls from India from major credit card issuers promising
> free
> > money, babysitting for Cora, and easy sex?  These people are wearing me
> > out.  We have one credit card we use - used to be MBNA but now Bank of
> > America that pays a 2% rebate to Cora's Fidelity 529 College Savings
> Plan.
> > You have to work hard to keep them honest but we scam them out of $1500
> a
> > year tax free because we keep them honest (called not carrying a balance
> > and
> > auto-draft payment).  This is a wonderful plan if you have kids or grand
> > kids but you DO have to keep them honest.  Here's my bitch and
> > observation;
> > are all the major bank credit card issuers turning up the heat to cover
> > their losses or do I just have a popular phone number?  I love it when
> > banks
> > get in trouble.  As a borrower, been there done that.  When it happens
> to
> > them, my attitude is FU.
> >
> > Brad
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