att.com DON'T DO IT

[GUMBY GCF]

I have had 7 calls in the last 3 days from 7 different people form ATT.COM wanting me to upgrade my listing.
First call Monday I let them tell me all about the web page the search engines the ad placement by zip codes etc. took about 20 min. Thank you I am not interested. I will call you if I do intend to move in that direction.
Tuesday two calls about 3 hours apart I told them politely to take me off the call list. I was not interested in upgrading.
Wed. 3 calls!~
On the third call today I asked exactly what there name was, how to spell it, exactly what company they worked for so I could write it down. So that I had details when I wrote the Attorney Generals office. Then I explained about the last 6 calls & asked to speak to a supervisor. Did the whole thing all over again.
Finally told them that even if I did intend to go this direction after being harrassed like this it would never be with them.
He assured me I would get no more calls , Yea right.

 

[Rick Granick]

Beware of any calls from anyone other than the representative of your actual local phone book inquiring about verifying or upgrading "your listing". Get straight to the point and let them know you don't have a listing with them. Whatever you do, never use the word "yes".
:kaffeetrinker_2: Rick

 

[MIK]

My beef was with the resellers of phone services. Now my response to them is " Who do you work for? I only speak directly with XYZ company. Thank you and have a good day?" Takes less than 6o seconds and have had a decrease in all the phone company calls. Now its the health "insurance" companies who are starting to use the "reseller" approach. Beware!

 

[Frame Lady]

Whenever a solicitor calls and goes in to his speech I ask him what is the name of the company on his paycheck. If they say they are calling on behalf of so and so this usually stops them in their tracks since they allude to represent a nationally known company when in fact they are a boiler room con scam game.

 

[cjmst3k]

Beware of any calls from anyone other than the representative of your actual local phone book inquiring about verifying or upgrading "your listing". Get straight to the point and let them know you don't have a listing with them. Whatever you do, never use the word "yes".
:kaffeetrinker_2: Rick

All I ask when the call to "verify" my "listing" I just say "is this a paid listing?" If they say "yes", then I say I'm not interested.

 

[Jill]

I finally got them to stop calling. But now I have to deal with the guy coming to the door.

Question. Why do they always have to see my bill to give me a better deal? What do they do when you have the best deal? Make up a better deal.

What ever you do don't fall for the and you get a gift card for joining. I ended up calling the state department of consumer affairs to get mine.

 

[Jim3535]

You should mess with them and have a modified bill ready with a super low rate.

 

[Ylva]

You are all so terribly polite!!!

I usually talk right through their sales call;
'thank you, I'm not interested, have a nice day" then hang up. Takes 10 seconds.

 

[Pat Murphey]

You should mess with them and have a modified bill ready with a super low rate.

You better modify more than the pricing - your bill gives them all they need to slam you.

 

[JRB]

AT&T will resort to even the lowliest forms of getting money. They send out letters that look exactly like tax returns with a check inside, they will make sales calls disguised as surveys. Their offers for saving money are never ending, yet if you sign up for any of these "deals", you soon discover you are paying considerably more than you were. They take bait and switch to new levels almost daily. They hire boiler room operations, outside sales teams, you name it, AT&T has tried it.

This once proud company has been taken over by shysters and con artists who will go to any length to destroy what was once a great reputation.

P.T. Barnum would have been proud of them.

John