telemarketers

How to deal with telemarketers is part of this experience I had today…. check it out and have some fun!

The telemarketer phone number 714-923-1942 has been calling me every day for almost 2 weeks straight.  No messages, they just call and hang up if I don’t answer.  It had the same area code from a press agent I’ve been dealing with of late, but alas, the rest of the number didn’t match up and “she” never left a message.

So today the phone rang while I was sitting next to it.  Ha!  I’m in one of those moods where “I’m going to call you on it if you’re stupid enough to do it to me” moods,  so I answered.  After all these missed calls, how could I possibly not pick up today?  Turns out this phone number, 714-923-1942 is for Advanced Access.

I forget his name, but he was real polite, real smooth and real fast.

Mr AA asked “How Are you today?”

‘I’m fantastic.  How are you?’

“I’m great, thank you for asking.”

He explained he’s from Advanced Access and his organization is in the business of creating web sites for real estate businesses.

‘That’s great and sounds like a wonderful service!’, I said.

“Are you in the real estate industry?”

‘No, I’m not.’

“unintelligible mumble…”  Click!

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Some months back was getting called by the phone number 877-603-6194.  They were acting like a telemarketer / scam artist by not leaving messages.

I didn’t take detailed notes so ya gonna have to trust me on this one, but the number was coming from a Wells Fargo credit department.

If I recall correctly they were calling to verify a charge on a card.  I just found it odd they wouldn’t leave a message.

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