Man I had to open my big mouth - I just got a call last night from Bridget of Card member services. Maybe Rachel got fired.
I clicked the 1 because I wanted to have fun with them again. When I did, I heard all this noise - background chatter and crap - I started saying hello, hello - and then they hung up. Damn I was going to ask where Rachel went...I tried to call the number back that showed up on my phone but it rang and rang and then said the number was busy.
@Linkat,
Maybe it was a police raid ?
or FBI ?
@OmSigDAVID,
I do not know, but I will ask when they call again.
@Linkat,
See if thay sound like thay r wearing handcuffs.
@CalamityJane,
Reporting them to the FCC doesn't do a damn thing! Also, the DO NOT CALL list is a joke because they call my home and cell, which I am on both and have been from the beginning. If I could get my hands on Rachel or whoever owns the damn telemarketing company, I would BURN THEIR ASS.
@LawFilly,
LawFilly wrote:Reporting them to the FCC doesn't do a damn thing! Also, the DO NOT CALL list is a joke because they call my home and cell, which I am on both and have been from the beginning. If I could get my hands on Rachel or whoever owns the damn telemarketing company, I would BURN THEIR ASS.
WELCOME to the forum, LawFilly!
May u use it in great
JOY!
I am a retired trial attorney.
I found the "no call list" to be very effective
in ending almost
1OO% of sales calls,
of which there had been a lot!
David
@OmSigDAVID,
Ya sure. It does not, however, have any effect on political calls. Political free speach, and all that. Whether it applies to charitable solicitations, I don't know. I'm on the list, and it clearly has no effect on Rachel.
@roger,
roger wrote:Ya sure. It does not, however, have any effect on political calls.
I
WANT those; no kidding around.
roger wrote:Political free speach, and all that. Whether it applies to charitable solicitations, I don't know.
I dunno either. I suspect that it does not.
I get calls allegedly from police charities. State police, city police.
roger wrote:I'm on the list, and it clearly has no effect on Rachel.
Maybe thay r criminals; sometimes, thay don 't care about rules.
@OmSigDAVID,
OmSigDAVID wrote:
I get calls allegedly from police charities. State police, city police.
I get calles from several Sheriff's and Deputy Sheriff's "associations." Some of them could almost be characterized as threatening. That is why I once posted a smiley when you asked someone if you could hear if the caller were wearing handcuffs. There are several states that let their crooks earn money working in call centers. I kind of think I have discovered who their employers are.
@roger,
OmSigDAVID wrote:
I get calls allegedly from police charities. State police, city police.
roger wrote:I get calles from several Sheriff's and Deputy Sheriff's "associations." Some of them could almost be characterized as threatening. That is why I once posted a smiley when you asked someone if you could hear if the caller were wearing handcuffs. There are several states that let their crooks earn money working in call centers. I kind of think I have discovered who their employers are.
Yeah, thay have fone banks in prisons.
@Linkat,
Rachel is alive, well, and dialing her little heart out - trust me.
@roger,
and so is "Ann", "Bridget" and I forget all the others - although they all have the same voice and message.
"Please stay on the line, while we trace this call. Your responses are being recorded, so that we may report you to the proper authorities in your country.
This is an automated response. If you have reached this recording in error, you will have the right to appeal. Please call the following number (insert the phone number for the consumer fraud hot line for your area For California, use 916-445-9555 State Attorney General)."
You can either read this back to them, or use a small cassett tape recorder to play it back. If that doesn't stop the calls, turn up the heat with a little stronger language, but always keep it polite and official sounding. I'll betcha they never even listen as far as the phone number, and you beat them at their own game.
I have given up on stoping Racheal, however I have come up with a plan for revenge! Purchase a wistle called an "Acme Thunderer" (you can get one from Amazon for about $10.00) and when Racheal calls press 1 to speak to a live representitive. As soon as he or she is on the line, blast the wistle into the speaker. It has to hurt.
Rachel called me today. I hung up on her robot.
David
@OmSigDAVID,
welcome to the club -- soon ann will call; and after that Bridget -- say hi to them for me.
Rachel at CARD SERVICES . . .
. . . endorsed Mitt Romney for President today, the 2012 Fall Equinox.
The famous phone voice (Google “Rachel at Card Services” to learn more), says Romney will roll back annoying government regulations like the No Call List, which she terms “an insulting and unnecessary Nanny State measure.” Such ‘consumer protections’ unfairly burden small businesses such as Rachel’s highly successful Florida operation. “If Obama wins, he might actually enforce the List,” she warns.
Rachel, for those who have somehow missed her calls, phones Americans at random, especially the elderly. She explains that she wants to help you reduce your credit card interest rates. You give her your credit card numbers and other personal information. She sells your data to computer hackers in Russia.
The Russians, she says, do the actual helping. "I've outsourced that part," she explains. "Mitt understands how outsourcing leverages American entrepreneurial talent (mine, for example), and helps ambitious Americans like me succeed in growing our wealth."
She is creating jobs for Americans, Rachel says. "I employ scads of callers who could never come up with a creative idea like mine," she adds. “I must say it is disappointing how many of them quit my call centers after just a few weeks. Many would rather take government handouts than work for me. It’s hard to find good help these days. I pay $10 an hour, which is very generous for mindless grunt work."
"I’m a Constitutional originalist. I just want what the nation's founders intended," Rachel insists. "As the Supreme Court has finally acknowledged, we Americans are entitled to say anything we want to each other. People I call can decide for themselves whether to answer their phones. It's up to them to decide to trust me and give me their personal information. Government has no business sticking its bureaucratic nose in. This is private business. We don't need government on our backs."
Rachel admires Romney’s determination to return America to capitalism’s Golden Age “when we were free to become rich, as God intends for true Americans, his chosen people. Mormons understand this.”
Is she proud of getting people to reveal their personal information and their credit account numbers?
"Absolutely!" says Rachel. "I'm teaching thousands of people one of life’s most valuable lessons. And I make my money directly from the people I teach, unlike those greedy teachers’ union members.”
What is that lesson? “Well, ‘Never Trust Anybody’, of course”, she says, smiling. “You knew that!”
“I built this business all by myself”, she adds, more seriously. "All schooling should be privatized. We in private business can teach the public everything it needs to know better than any politician or bureaucrat. Americans don't need tax-guzzling government to learn that creative greed runs the world.”
"Mitt Romney gets it," Rachel concludes. "That's why he must win – and appoint more business-friendly Justices to the Supreme Court, men and women who understand free speech and encourage successful American entrepreneurs to buy as much of it as we can. Progress depends on ‘the ones born every minute’, if you take my meaning.” Rachel smiles winningly and winks. She’s relaxed, with friends.
"Speaking of which: I'm confident that the Koch brothers will get Mitt elected. So I, too, am investing in the American future we all deserve. I’ve ordered ten thousand more robodialing machines.”
"Elect Mitt!” Rachel urges. “He knows who you and I are – the real Americans!"
