Off topic, a note for search engines and such ... Fashion Bug Sucks, Part Two

[kinzel]

Will someone please tell Fashion Bug that phone calls telling me about the latest bra sale are probably not going to result in additional profit for them? And that giving me a number I should call to opt out of future calls is an absurd imposition? So if I happen to be waiting for a call about an ill family member I can hang up -- and you'll call me back -- or I can listen to your spammy message and then have to spend my energy to call you? Whoa..bad form, Fashion Bug.

So...

Dear Fashion Bug Corporate:

if all the corporations in the US call me and require me to call them back so they won't bother me again, how shall I have time to work, or even to shop?

Maybe if I had a pen I would have written your number down. But I didn't. So I called your local store and asked them to pass the news upline that I don't want your phone calls. Next time you call. I'll call several stores. Got that? I doubt it.

Fashion Bug engages in unfortunate business practices. Shop there at your peril.

Comments

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Would that this were true. You also get calls from people with whom you have a "business relationship".

Give them Pizza Hut's number :)

[magda-vogelsang.livejournal.com]

And from people who had a business relationship with whoever had your phone number before you did (in my case, the person who used to have my number has debt collectors after her).

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Do you know that a "friend" can sign you up to receive phone calls and marketing news from their favorite stores? Also, if you sign up for a "win this absolutely free" promotion at a mall there's a good chance that your phone number is off to a telemarketer who can claim you as a "pre-qualified opt -in" ...

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Oh yes -- there was a vote-for-your-school-to-win-$1000 that put you on the list for Army recruiters to contact. When I told my young cousin that she was flabbergasted -- and then she got her call from the recruiters....

Very true

[blueberryline.livejournal.com]

My number was apparently sold to a student loan company by the university I just applied to according to this thread http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-201-266-0965. Started to receive numerous calls daily from them. Don't know how to stop.