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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!dg-rtp!chutney!eliot
- From: eliot@chutney.rtp.dg.com (Topher Eliot)
- Subject: Re: Wrong-Number Phone Shenanigan
- Sender: usenet@dg-rtp.dg.com (Usenet Administration)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.154208.17595@dg-rtp.dg.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 15:42:08 GMT
- Reply-To: eliot@dg-rtp.dg.com
- References: <1gqu71INNjg4@access.usask.ca>
- Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC
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- |> I tried very hard (for the first couple of weeks) to be nice and
- |> tell people they had mis-dialed. Sometimes that worked. But I would
- |> get calls on my machine: people asking me to call them back with the info.
-
- In a book called "Don't get Mad, get Even", this guy said he had a phone
- number very similar to a shop that sold fireplace accessories. He figured
- that he spent about $50 worth of his time every ?three months? (whatever)
- politely redirecting calls to the shop. So he sent them an explanatory letter
- and a bill. They ignored him or told him to take a hike or something.
- So he started telling all such callers to hurry in, as today was their annual
- unadvertised sale for regular customers, everything 50% off.
-
- After a while the fireplace shop caught on, paid him is $50, and he went back
- to politely referring people to the correct number.
-
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- Topher Eliot Data General DG/UX Systems Administration Development
- (919) 248-6371 eliot@dg-rtp.dg.com
- Obviously, I speak for myself, not for DG.
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