Telemarketing

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Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
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Cell-phone telemarketing?

Letter to the editor;

(Sound of phone ringing)

ME: Glenn Jacobs.

VOICE: This important message is to tell you that your vehicle warra . . . (click)

(Sound of phone ringing)

ME: Glenn Jacobs.

VOICE: There is nothing wrong with your credit card accounts. However, would you like for us to help you to reduce your interest rates and become debt-free?

ME: You said you wouldn’t call me again.

VOICE: We won’t. I will remove your name and number from our list.

ME: This is the seventh time you have promised exactly that.

Don Blaster, an old friend in Kentucky sends word that today (TODAY!) cell-phone numbers will be released to telemarketing companies all across the United States. He warns that now, when a person with an unidentifiable foreign accent calls you during supper to offer an “affordable” health plan – YOU get to pay for the call.

This has some of the earmarks of a hoax. I really don’t know if it’s true or not.

On the off chance that we start getting sales calls on our cell-phones, the antidote is supposed to be to call (from your cellphone!) 1-888-382-1222.

I just now called that number. A voice said it was the Federal Trade Commission Do-Not-Call Registry. (“To register your phone number, press one.”)

Then, thinking it over, I called the same number from my “land-line” home phone.

I still don’t know whether the problem (or the solution) is “for real”.

Glenn Jacobs / Eagar, Arizona