Posted on 06/15/2009 11:24:44 AM PDT by metmom
You answer the phone, and it's a recorded message:
"By now you should have received your written note regarding your vehicle warranty expiring. This call is to give you a final opportunity to extend coverage before it is too late. Press '1' now to speak to a warranty specialist regarding your options on your vehicle."
Upon pressing "1," you are transferred to a "warranty specialist" who lies to you, telling you he is affiliated with an automobile dealer or manufacturer and that your warranty is up. And before long, you may have agreed to put $450 down on an extended service contract that costs up to $3,000, the balance to be paid in monthly payments.
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No, my elderly parents have died a while ago.
I give them my ex-wife’s phone numbers and tell them she is the one that makes all the vehicle decisions.
I also am nice enough to inform them that she works nights and is asleep during the day, so she is only available to talk between midnight and 4 AM on weekdays.
Hey I LIKE those calls. It is better than hearing Ahnold’s voice on my answering machine asking me to vote for a better Kaleefornia.
Has anyone here had any luck contacting an attorney general about bad telemarketing practices? Any luck with complaining to the FTC about robocalls to cell phones?
Close: "fAces" is not the word I think of in connection with these crooks.
I kept the guy on the line until I told him that I owned a 1978 Yugo. He hung up.
One of my twins finds great pleasure in screwing with telemarketers. She will keep them on the phone for well over a half hour, and talk about all kinds of stuff. She has several voices she can use, too, so it sounds like they are talking to about 4 different people.
With the extended warrantee people, she got them to list just about every part and system they claim to cover. She then asked them if they cover the "johnson valve in the exhaust carburetor" or something like that, and they said yes. She called them a liar, because she just made it up. That pretty much ended the call.
She's pretty quick for a 13 year old.
LOL
I also ask about replacement Klien rods.
These folks are, indeed, scum. TElephone version of the Travelers.
LOL
I also ask about replacement Klien rods.
These folks are, indeed, scum. TElephone version of the Travelers.
I must’ve gotten a dozen “final call before we close the book” calls in addition to the other “your warranty may be expiring”. Ya think??? My car is 12 years old!
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We have gotten about 20 or so, including a few on my cell phone. One time I actually did press to get the “specialist”. Had to hold forever. When he finally came on the line, he said, “What make and year is your automobile?” When I said, “You tell me; you’re the one that called me”, he hung up.
My car is 17. BTW.
Yes, people fall this sort of scam. Especially older people who don’t have a clue what it will cost to keep up their cars after the warranty runs out.
The SOB’s were calling my cell phone at all hours. They had an official sounding message designed to frighten the old and stupid. I’m old but not so stupid, yet.
I finally spent about an hour..while I was reading FR..wasting their time on getting the details and then negotiating for a lower price..then talking to their “closer”..etc etc. But the calls haven’t stopped.
You figure that they have some congresscritter in their pocket who somehow gives them cover with the FTC and other agencies. They probably even get an earmark and get paid for giving the Rats there “sucker list”.
The Rat organizations exchange their lists of the little old ladies who can persuaded to give or buy anything.
Is that what all those calls were, eh? The scam’s stupid robo-caller voice talked over my answering machine’s robo-voice and all I could understand as the two robot voices struggled for supremacy was something about a warranty. That musta happened a hunnert times. Saved by my crappy answering machine I reckon...
Freegards
“Nobody ever wants to send me free money.....”
I am getting a part of the 787 billion. All I have to do is send $399 dollars to get my place in line.
The SOB’s were calling my cell phone at all hours. They had an official sounding message designed to frighten the old and stupid. I’m old but not so stupid, yet.
I turn my cell phone off when I crawl in the rack. It goes on the charger for the next day. If the call is really important, my colleagues have my unlisted land line. The land line and all cell phones are also on the do not contact list. The only exception to that cell phone practice is when I'm on a business trip.
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