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Got a Call from the car warranty company today

Bushwicktrini

Bushwicktrini

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So I'm at work and we are doing our weekly walk-thru on a classroom building and I get on the elevator and the emergency phone starts ringing then it picks up and i hear from the speaker the whole spiel about my car warranty will expire yada yada.

I call campus police on my cell phone and have them check the line and sure enough it was an active call to the elevator number. Wow they will call any number they get huh. IT will have to change the number and have it unlisted now.

 
Record the calls and always talk to a live person. You can sue them for $500 an incident without even needing to hire a lawyer and you can file online. Saw some digg article about a guy who collected $7,000 from these guys alone.
 
they're assholes... they'll call my work on the 'must answer' line....

link to file incident online?
 
LOL one of my coworkers got one of those calls on his cell. The funny part is he does not even own a car.

Worse yet, the company I work for called a coworker (of THAT company obviously) to try and sell a service that we offer. THAT was funny. That's what happens when you have like 20 corporations that own each other and have a huge mesh of unbrellas. The right hand does not know what the left hand is doing.
 
I think they are going to report them to the fire marshal due to the fact that if someone was stuck they couldn't call for help with these idoits on the line
 
Originally posted by: Bushwicktrini
So I'm at work and we are doing our weekly walk-thru on a classroom building and I get on the elevator and the emergency phone starts ringing then it picks up and i hear from the speaker the whole spiel about my car warranty will expire yada yada.

I call campus police on my cell phone and have them check the line and sure enough it was an active call to the elevator number. Wow they will call any number they get huh. IT will have to change the number and have it unlisted now.
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Be careful with changing that number. It was part of the certification and the number is registered with the elevator company.
( experienced with providing dial tone to elevators, fire alarms, etc. )
 
Is it the "this is the second notice that your warranty is about to expire one?" We get those on fax machines and other numbers. I'm not surprised they got the elevator phone. Hilarious!
 
Originally posted by: Bushwicktrini
I think they are going to report them to the fire marshal due to the fact that if someone was stuck they couldn't call for help with these idoits on the line
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Good. Appropriate response. There's lots of rules/code regarding elevator phone lines. I'm actually really surprised it was a direct inward dial number and wasn't run through security's switchboard.
 
I, for one, welcome our new Robo-Call Overlords and wish to subscribe to their newsletter, and wonder if their offer of Alternator Sized Bulk Beef is still good.
 
Originally posted by: AlienCraft
I, for one, welcome our new Robo-Call Overlords and wish to subscribe to their newsletter, and wonder if their offer of Alternator Sized Bulk Beef is still good.
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It's Homer and his freaking robo-call 9000. What a menace.
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: Bushwicktrini
I think they are going to report them to the fire marshal due to the fact that if someone was stuck they couldn't call for help with these idoits on the line
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Good. Appropriate response. There's lots of rules/code regarding elevator phone lines. I'm actually really surprised it was a direct inward dial number and wasn't run through security's switchboard.
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Makes one wonder if perhaps it had local dialing capability and was a "stealth"phone, perhaps re-directed at a local tewrminal box?
I know of old school Pacific Bell techs that would do stuff like this on a job site (testing lines) and forget to remove it, leave the site and we ( the electrical crew) could then make calls.
Granted that was way back in the '80's..... but the principal still holds.

 
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