OT: I Have Won!!!

Atrocities · #1 December 5th, 2004, 10:54 AM

Something good did happen. I did not fall for this scam.

Gandalf Parker · #2 December 5th, 2004, 11:57 AM

The scam that pisses me off lately is that many of my domains are coming up for re-registering. Im getting emails that are reminding me to renew and re-register them. The emails read just fine. If I wasnt REAL careful to take note of the fact that they are NOT coming from my registrar. They are coming from other registrars and if I hit the link and "renew" I will actually be switching companies.

Im geting the same thing on the phone lately because of my house mortgage. If I dont SPECIFICALLY ask them "we have an account with you now?" then nothing they say gives any impression that they arent the company you are already with and their offer of "upgrading your account to the new rates" is actually trying to get you to switch.

I feel this pretend-you-are-with-us-already tactic is deplorable for a company to use. OK it is legal but I would be ashamed to work for a company that uses it.

Atrocities · #3 December 5th, 2004, 12:25 PM

I took a call like that Last year just after I listed my house. My house, to think I actually owned a house. Well any ways, I had to laugh. I made a lot of money off the sale, and am thankful it sold in fast, but in retrospect, I should not have sold it. I paid $112.500 for it new, actually was there every day it was being built, and sold it for $149.500 five years later. To get into a house like that again, would cast me $175.000 now. Go figure. Any who, I hear ya GP, tis annoying as all hell, but even those low life SOB's have to put food on the table for their families, so they inconvience us to do it. What can ya do?

Suicide Junkie · #4 December 5th, 2004, 02:08 PM

Ask them for a cheque to "verify their identity"

Fyron · #5 December 5th, 2004, 08:34 PM

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Atrocities said:
I took a call like that Last year just after I listed my house. My house, to think I actually owned a house. Well any ways, I had to laugh. I made a lot of money off the sale, and am thankful it sold in fast, but in retrospect, I should not have sold it. I paid $112.500 for it new, actually was there every day it was being built, and sold it for $149.500 five years later. To get into a house like that again, would cast me $175.000 now. Go figure. Any who, I hear ya GP, tis annoying as all hell, but even those low life SOB's have to put food on the table for their families, so they inconvience us to do it. What can ya do?

Let evolution take its course and get the scum out of the gene pool?