My car warranty is about to expire. I just got a second notice.

[Kahns Krazy]

I don't have a home phone, and haven't for over 5 years. One of the things I've enjoyed the most is a lack of telemarketers that have my number. For some reason, I've been getting the same call about my car warranty expiring soon.

I purchased my car 15 years ago this month. I have explained that several times to these people. I still get the call at least twice a week, and have been called as many as 3 times on the same day.

I would like to blow up the building that houses that autodialer.

[Titanxman04]

I am getting the same calls. All from different phone numbers, but the same damn recording. I'm tired of it.

[bobbiemcgee]

I am getting the same calls. All from different phone numbers, but the same damn recording. I'm tired of it.

try this, then file a complaint

https://www.donotcall.gov/

[Snipe]

I have been getting the same damn thing.

I have never bought a car from a dealer in my life. I am for blowing up that building as well.

[blobfan]

Sign me up for the raid.

Telemarketers are one of the lowest forms of life on the planet. I love that their argument against the do not call list was they their own organizations did an adequate job of maintaining no call lists. Yet, even though it is now against the law to call those numbers, they can't keep from doing it.

[MuskieCinci]

I had no idea that so many other people were having this problem. It seems like I get a call every other day.

[THill42]

This is the best thread I have read in a while. I have been getting the same calls for quite some time now and they are fairly consistent. How did they get our phone numbers?

[Kahns Krazy]

Apparently, they are just random dialing numbers. I read today where hospital rooms and emergency rooms are getting these calls.

[MuskieCinci]

Speak of the devil, guess who I just hung up on.

[Jesuit4Life]

Is this the culprit?
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/167/256pxat500autodialer1.jpg
Ned: [awakened by the phone ringing] Howdily-diddely.
Homer: [on the phone via the auto-dialer] Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look-
Ned: [hangs up] Oh, it's that darn recording again.
Maude: Of course it was. It's been calling all night. Just unplug the phone.
[Ned turns out the light and the phone rings again.]
Ned: Howdily-di-
Homer: Greetings, friends-
Ned: [hangs up] Dang!
Maude: I told you to unplug the phone.
Ned: But it could be my mother! [the phone rings] Howdy...
Homer: Greetings, friends...
Ned: [hangs up] Shoot!
Maude: That is it, Ned! If you don't unplug that phone right now, you're sleeping on the lawn.
Homer: [out his window] Will you two shut up?! People are trying to sleep!

[XUglow]

Speak of the devil, guess who I just hung up on.

Miller wants you to become an Arizona fan?

[D-West & PO-Z]

I had no idea that so many other people were having this problem. It seems like I get a call every other day.

Haha, same here. WTF? It is pretty annoying.

[MADXSTER]

Started getting ohone calls myself about 2 - 3 weeks ago. Same damn thing.

Only place where I put out my cell phone number that I can think of(and regretted) in that time frame was on facebook.

[TheDanimal]

It has been happening for a little over a month now to pretty much everyone I know with a cell phone. The call is from a different area code and phone number every call. It is either a pure phishing scam to try to get information from anyone naive enough to give it to them or some organization trying to sell unnecessary and probably fraudulent auto securities.

[X-band '01]

I don't have a home phone, and haven't for over 5 years. One of the things I've enjoyed the most is a lack of telemarketers that have my number. For some reason, I've been getting the same call about my car warranty expiring soon.


I purchased a new vehicle about a month and a half ago and sold my old one that got totaled, so I no longer have the title to the old one. That's why I was surprised I got a call like that earlier this week, even though I declined the extended warranty from the dealership.


Sign me up for the raid.

Telemarketers are one of the lowest forms of life on the planet. I love that their argument against the do not call list was they their own organizations did an adequate job of maintaining no call lists. Yet, even though it is now against the law to call those numbers, they can't keep from doing it.

Ever since I moved to Fairfield about 4 years ago, I've decided to NOT put my phone number on the DNC list. There was a loophole in the law that allowed political campaigns to call numbers on the DNC list, and I didn't want to give people another shot at my phone number. When I sign up for stuff, I only put a phone number on when absolutely necessary, and if I see a number that I don't recognize, I'm switching my printer to fax mode so that telemarketers think they're getting a fax number instead of a phone number.


Apparently, they are just random dialing numbers. I read today where hospital rooms and emergency rooms are getting these calls.

I'm sure churches and funeral homes will be next. The ultimate irony would be auto dealerships getting these calls themselves.

[xeus]

I've started getting these calls now too. Ridiculous. This wasn't happening before Obama.

[Xman95]

I would like to blow up the building that houses that autodialer.

Any chance it's in Tucson? :) (I would have said Dayton, but I know there's nothing there.)

[Kahns Krazy]

I've started getting these calls now too. Ridiculous. This wasn't happening before Obama.

Someone else is blaming swine flu on this lady. Nobody had it before she started singing, and now look.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/dailymusto/Images/susanboyle1.jpg

[boozehound]

I just received my first call today on my work phone. It was also my second notice.

I want to know what percentage of people actually even listen to the whole message. I just hung up as soon as I realized it was a recording.

[Kahns Krazy]

I got two yesterday. One was marked private. The other had a bogus number attached to it.

I listened through a couple times. When I'm bored, I like to screw with telemarketers. I like to act really interested for a while. Then I like to ask if they warranty other things, like chainsaws, because I'm having a hard time cutting through femurs.

[PM Thor]

We get them at the firehouse every once in awhile.

At home I can mute my phone, and since everyone I know calls me on my cell exclusively, I never answer the home line.

I just checked, I have 76 messages on my home phone. The first 5 were from telemarketers, so I stopped listening to the messages. I think I might just throw the phone away instead of going through all the messages.

I HATE dayton.

[Kahns Krazy]

I gotta ask... why do you have a home phone?

[PM Thor]

I have to have one for work. It's in our contract actually.

Plus I need it for my alarm system. If I could, I would get rid of my home phone right away.

I HATE dayton.

[Kahns Krazy]

Interesting. Seems like a sort of outdated requirement.

[boozehound]

I got another call from that f-ing number today! 2 in one day. This is great. Both from fake numbers.

If it was my personal phone I probably wouldn't answer, however on my business phone I regularly get calls from a variety of area codes so I don't really have that option.

[THRILLHOUSE]

yeah I get this call at least once a week

[PM Thor]

Interesting. Seems like a sort of outdated requirement.

Being a government entity, we have a ton of outdated requirements and SOPs. My favorite has to be the requirement that I have to live in the county. Completely outdated, and yet many cities are fighting that...

I HATE dayton.

[XU-PA]

Strangest thing, today I got the same notice, only it came in the mail! They wanted me to renew the warranty on my 99 Dodge Neon. I'm certain nay legitimate firm would never issue any kind of warranty for a 10 year old car with over 170,000 miles on it.

The question is, who out there is stupid enough to go for one of these things. These must be some money coming in to these places to keep them calling and mailing.

Kind of like, who is it that is stupid enough to fall for the check scams, you know, you're selling something on Craigs List for a grand, but someone with very bad grammer sends you a check for 3 grand for it, and wants you to wire the $2000 extra to someone else to cover the shipping. Are there people out there that dumb?

[Kahns Krazy]

I'm getting at least one call a day. So tired of it.

[American X]

Do not fear. Chuck Schumer is on the case (http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/tracking-down-auto-warranty-callers/?hp).

At minimum, it may distract him from further mangling the financial system.

[Kahns Krazy]

I should sign up and see if they'll cover the defective bumper I have that is shaped like the inverse of a trailer hitch. I think I'm going to have a trailer hitch installed on my next car. My car is a mess, and the guy I hit just shrugged.

[American X]

America Strikes Back (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124234497033421649.html#mod=todays_us_nonsub_pag e_one)

Millions of Americans have gotten the call.

"This is the second notice that the factory warranty on your vehicle is about to expire," says the recorded voice at the other end of the line. Most people hang up. The machine calls again later.

Michael Silveira decided to strike back. The 22-year-old laboratory technician, who doesn't own a car, says he was getting unsolicited sales pitches as often as twice a day on his cellphone.

So last week, Mr. Silveira began calling back an auto-warranty company that has become the focus of an Internet crusade. He left it voice-mail messages that contained nothing but a recording of Rick Astley's 1987 hit song "Never Gonna Give You Up."

[Masterofreality]

I love the mail I get that says that the warranty on my wife's 2001 Hyundai Santa Fe with 92,000 miles is "about to expire".

Uh, that warranty died long ago. The car lives on, however- at least until this fall when it gets traded.

[XU-PA]

America Strikes Back (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124234497033421649.html#mod=todays_us_nonsub_pag e_one)

Millions of Americans have gotten the call.

"This is the second notice that the factory warranty on your vehicle is about to expire," says the recorded voice at the other end of the line. Most people hang up. The machine calls again later.

Michael Silveira decided to strike back. The 22-year-old laboratory technician, who doesn't own a car, says he was getting unsolicited sales pitches as often as twice a day on his cellphone.

So last week, Mr. Silveira began calling back an auto-warranty company that has become the focus of an Internet crusade. He left it voice-mail messages that contained nothing but a recording of Rick Astley's 1987 hit song "Never Gonna Give You Up."

Rick Astley, cruel and unusual punishment.

[Kahns Krazy]

Rick Rolling wasn't funny even when it was mildly original.

[wkrq59]

I've been getting calls like this for the past three years. Thus far, all they do is leave text messages on my cell phone which I delete without even opening.
The house phone caller ID takes care of most of them But occasionally I like to get and really jack 'em around. Especially true of the ones who want to see my time share if I will immediately send them $1000, a one-time fee.
What I also have done with non-recorded calls and it's very effective, ""Hold on please," then I put the phone down pick it up 2 minutes later and tell 'em "hold on I'm interested but nature calls"...come back five minutes later and jack 'em around some more. These are the live sales call and survey people.
Finally, after I've tied them up long enough to read my mail on line and post on MM & XH, I pick up the phone and ask, "I forgot, what was it you wanted to tell me?
By the way what's your name? Oh, let me speak to your supervisor...By the way, did you know this call is being recorded?
The click is quite clear.
For one month before the last national election, I received 120 robo calls from both parties. The ones I liked best were from Steve Chabot saying, "Please hold for a message from Steve Chabot warning you of...I hang up on all of them if I even take the time to answer 'em.
I've also done a pretty good immitation of a genuine hillbilly asking if they have a list of the cars I has...usually with the live ones, I can string 'em out and drive 'em nuts asking 'em to repeat their question.
I think in the past month I have shreaded more Capital One card invitations telling me I've been preapproved...and the auto warranty letters too.
I started marking those refused and taking them in a batch to the post office. For a while they stopped sending 'em. :D:D:D