John Higdon <john@zygot.ati.com> (04/29/91)
It has been many glorious weeks since my last "Are you receiving the
paper OK?" from the {San Jose Mercury}. A number of people have
written to ask if I ever succeeded in making the calls stop and if so
how it was done.
The answer appears to be "yes" and the method was simple and obvious.
It finally came to a crashing end when I called Pac*Bell and
complained about it as harassment. One call to the business office
resulted in calls to the Mercury and a number of followups to
determine if the problem had been corrected. I suspect that if there
are a number of complaints that Pac*Bell might just shut the operation
down.
Which brings me to the purpose of this message. I would strongly
suggest and request that anyone in the San Francisco Bay Area who is
fed up with the constant calls from the Mercury call the Pac*Bell
business office and complain. This will accomplish two things. You
should get no more calls from the telemarketer on that topic (which is
what you really want), and you may be instrumental in shutting down
the whole operation (which is what a lot of us would like).
A clue that this action is dreaded by the telemarketer was the
reaction I received when I so informed the head of the operation. He
said point blank that he really would have preferred that I had not
called "the telephone company".
So, if you are tired of those {San Jose Mercury} calls, call the phone
company. It may be as simple as that.
John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395
john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !