Wrong Number !!!

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NightCrawler

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Some business is printing up flyers with my number and now I'm getting calls from people who want to sign up.

Maybe I should make a note of it on my outgoing message because they seem to ignore the fact that their calling the wrong number.
 
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KLin

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"Hello you've reached 555-5555. This is not ACME Inc, this is a residence. STOP FVCKING CALLING ME!!!. Leave a message at the beep."

 
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JonnyStarks

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Just start taking their name and tell them that a service person will be out to them first thing tomorrow morning.
 
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KLin

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Originally posted by: JonnyStarks
Just start taking their name and tell them that a service person will be out to them first thing tomorrow morning.
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And when no one shows up, they'll just call again bitching him out. Very bad idea :thumbsdown:
 
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JonnyStarks

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Originally posted by: KLin
Originally posted by: JonnyStarks
Just start taking their name and tell them that a service person will be out to them first thing tomorrow morning.
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And when no one shows up, they'll just call again bitching him out. Very bad idea :thumbsdown:
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Then be really belligerent with them... then word will spread that its a horrible company, it'll go belly up, and then they won't print those flyers anymore.
Everybody wins!
 
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essasin

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have you tried to find out the real companies phone number? And thats careless of the company...how could they not double check their phone number?!
 
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Originally posted by: NightCrawler
Some business is printing up flyers with my number and now I'm getting calls from people who want to sign up.

Maybe I should make a note of it on my outgoing message because they seem to ignore the fact that their calling the wrong number.
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Get their CC numbers and post them here... thanks ;)
 
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TwinkleToes77

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Get in contact with the company and let them know. It's OBVIOUSLY an accident, as they probably dont intentional give wrong numbers when they are advertising their own business. Infact, my work recently did something similiar. They put a help wanted ad in the paper and the wrong fax number got put into it. Poor guy that got all those wrong numbers I feel bad for him, and so did my company.

Change your answering maching to explain that it's not the number they are trying to call and if you can give them the correct one. Sabotaging the business, as others stated, is a silly and adolescent thing to do.
 
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cavemanmoron

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Originally posted by: TwinkleToes77
Get in contact with the company and let them know. It's OBVIOUSLY an accident, as they probably dont intentional give wrong numbers when they are advertising their own business. Infact, my work recently did something similiar. They put a help wanted ad in the paper and the wrong fax number got put into it. Poor guy that got all those wrong numbers I feel bad for him, and so did my company.

Change your answering maching to explain that it's not the number they are trying to call and if you can give them the correct one. Sabotaging the business, as others stated, is a silly and adolescent thing to do.
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I used to get calls for the local bus station,thier number was one away from mine. :(

I still get wrong number calls once in a while,and Try to be polite.

Call the place tommorow and tell them whats up.
 
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Cristatus

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it's obviously not the company's fault, it's the printing company that's at fault...printing the wrong number. they could get sued for this!
 
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arcas

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Originally posted by: BustaBust
Be an American, sue them.
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I realize you said this in jest but it has, in fact, happened.

It turns out that the firmware for a popular home office router (can't remember who...may have been Linksys or D-Link) had hardcoded the built-in NTP client to get its time data from a university's server. Frequently. The end result is millions of requests hammering that poor NTP server and using up a large chunk of the university's total network bandwidth. Of course, once these routers have been sold to Joe Public, there's not a lot the manufacturer can do unless the owners voluntarily upgrade their firmware. So the university is suing the manufacturer for bandwidth usage, etc.

 
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arcas

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Originally posted by: wallsfd949
Originally posted by: arcas

It turns out that the firmware for a popular home office router (can't remember who...may have been Linksys or D-Link) had hardcoded the built-in NTP client to get its time data from a university's server.
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Netgear and University of Wisconsin
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Thanks. I stand..err..sit corrected. I thought I'd read that the university had filed a lawsuit but I guess I was wrong.

 
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DeeKnow

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take comfort in the fact that a moron who cannot double check the number he puts out on his flyer is deservedly losing all that business
 
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Neurorelay

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Our home number showed up on people's caller id, even though the number left was a business......my number is 909-866-####.....and the company number left on peoples caller id was 866-###-####....basically people did not know how to read their dang caller id and bugged us for months, finally that company must have went out of business because the calls stopped.
 
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