Those dirty bastards at MBNA Canada called again. Or at least, I think they did. It was another automated system calling for the deadbeat Wally whose phone number I had the bad luck of inheriting, so it may well have been a second company. *69 gave the number 604 661 7999 but, as expected, there's no listing for that in the reverse number lookup.
I called Telus to see about just changing numbers or something, but it was already past their hours of operation for residential phone service. They have this new automated system where you have to speak to a voice recognition bot to navigate your way around - all the hassle of a touch-tone voicemail system and none of the convenience of pushing buttons for defined actions. I'm sure some C*O approved a few million for this piece of junk and then fired a call centre's worth of tech support people.
At any rate, I'll call the Better Business Bureau when they open on Monday. Does it warrant contacting the police?
Posted by tim at November 22, 2003 07:30 PMI had the good fortune of inheriting someone's fax number and endured being faxed every 15 minutes from 4:30am to 7:00am, five days a week, for the better part of a year.
*69 didn't work, as it returned the number of a leased Sprint line used by some overseas fax-monster with no regard for time differences at the destination.
The thirty bucks spent changing my phone number was thirty bucks well spent, let me tell you.
Posted by: cspencer on November 23, 2003 07:52 PMI'm being harassed by folks at the exact same number*, who won't identify themselves, and simply play an automated recording asking for a person who does not live here. :(
If you've since gotten anywhere dealing with these nitwits, I'd be glad to hear your experiences with them.
*It's how I found your site, I *69'd the nuisance call.
Posted by: GWhite on December 22, 2003 05:17 PMThe next people who called admitted they weren't MBNA proper, but an advertising company calling on behalf of MBNA. The supervisor assured me that my number will be on the do-not-call list from now on, but warned that there may be other advertisers or MBNA themselves that will still call.
So I called MBNA again and told them to tell all their advertising affiliates to take me off their lists. She said they could stop giving out my number, but there's nothing they can do about the companies that already have it. Disgusting, isn't it?
Posted by: tim on December 30, 2003 10:54 AMHey, I just got a call from "Mike" at 604 661 7999 just a first name inviting me to call a Toll Free number, Thank goodness this site came up on Google when I ran the number. Google is the CPIC for non-law enforcment types! I'm not returning this telephone SPAM.
Mike can Eat My ass.
Posted by: Ian on August 27, 2004 04:26 PM