A heating/ac business misprinted thier phone number...

brembo · Post by **brembo** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:27 pm

and it misprinted out to MY CELL NUMBER.

GRRRRR.

Bizarre people are calling me wanting me to look at thier heat pumps and stuff. I told em I would look but it was not gonna help em, as I have no real idea how to repair the things.

This sucks. Time to change the message I guess.

Zilog B · Post by **Zilog B** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:30 pm

Sounds like a business opportunity to me. Get ahold of a local heating and air place and ask them how much they'd pay you for each customer you refer to their business.

then profit

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:30 pm

tee hee

ghost · Post by **ghost** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:30 pm

brembo wrote:and it misprinted out to MY CELL NUMBER.

GRRRRR.

Bizarre people are calling me wanting me to look at thier heat pumps and stuff. I told em I would look but it was not gonna help em, as I have no real idea how to repair the things.

This sucks. Time to change the message I guess.

Start your own business for a year and leech off their advertising.

Or tell another company you'll give them referrals to customers for a small fee.

ADDED: Damn, Zilog beat me to the ideas! Sheesh!

Zilog B · Post by **Zilog B** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:32 pm

When growing up we had a phone number that was one number different from the cable company. It was so bad we had to get it changed, people would call all hours of the day and night when their cable would go out.

fastchevy · Post by **fastchevy** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:51 pm

My cell number is 623-xxxx, Walmart's number is 632-xxxx

I'm CONSTANTLY getting dumbasses trying to call Walmart

Blisster · Post by **Blisster** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:55 pm

this remnds me of the "May I help you Dumbass" series.

Barnes and Nobel had teamed up with some internet provider on the east coast to give away free internet service. Apparently they mis-printed the number and it was the personal number of one of the members of the Upright Citizens Brigade. Apparently he tried to contact bot Barnes and Nobel and the ISP, but they essentialy told him to F off, so in kind- he decided to F with all the people that called for support, and her recorded it.

It's hilarious http://www.uprightcitizens.org/18/

Russell · Post by **Russell** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:57 pm

The university here printed out pamphlets with gameday information, including the police department's phone number. However, they transposed one of the digits with that of a local guy named John. I just wonder how many calls John got after the first game.

Kip Patterson · Post by **Kip Patterson** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:04 pm

Happened to me several months ago. A carpet company put my cell number on a request to the various stores to fax in info. The faxes all kept retrying the number!!

I was more than a little unhappy.

mmione · Post by **mmione** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:08 pm

Blisster wrote:this remnds me of the "May I help you Dumbass" series.

Barnes and Nobel had teamed up with some internet provider on the east coast to give away free internet service. Apparently they mis-printed the number and it was the personal number of one of the members of the Upright Citizens Brigade. Apparently he tried to contact bot Barnes and Nobel and the ISP, but they essentialy told him to F off, so in kind- he decided to F with all the people that called for support, and her recorded it.

It's hilarious http://www.uprightcitizens.org/18/

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:26 pm

My friend use to have a number that was close to a pizzeria..he got so sick of telling them wrong number..he use to take orders..and of course pizza wasnt there when they went to pick it up or never got delivered, he use to have tons of fun with them.

thepieman · Post by **thepieman** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:39 pm

brembo wrote:and it misprinted out to MY CELL NUMBER.

GRRRRR.

Bizarre people are calling me wanting me to look at thier heat pumps and stuff. I told em I would look but it was not gonna help em, as I have no real idea how to repair the things.

This sucks. Time to change the message I guess.

I'd offer to charge them a couple hundred bucks to forward your calls to the correct number for a while.

Pie

JawZ · Post by **JawZ** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:41 pm

I wouldn't mind having my pipes cleaned out..

oh.nevermind.

Mactron · Post by **Mactron** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:43 pm

brembo wrote:and it misprinted out to MY CELL NUMBER.
This sucks. Time to change the message I guess.

Had the same problem years ago with a local hair shop. I called and asked them nicely a couple times to fix their ad and they said it would be to expensive to redo the ad. So I started to take appointments.

Of course the customers would show up and had no appointment.

After a couple weeks of this I called the hair shop again and asked them nicely to fix their ad. Again the answer was no. I asked if she had a lot of problems with her appointments lately. She said yes and then paused... next were words I thought I would never hear from a Women. Man was she pissed.

I explained it would continue until she fixed her ad. She did, the Next day.

Zilog B · Post by **Zilog B** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:08 pm

[quote="Mactron"]Had the same problem years ago with a local hair shop. I called and asked them nicely a couple times to fix their ad and they said it would be to expensive to redo the ad. So I started to take appointments. ]

BrettRS · Post by **BrettRS** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:13 pm

My dad owns a pediatrics office, and is a pediatrician himself.

Their 1-800 number is very close to an 800 sex phone number, and they kept getting calls asking for different girls etc.. then when a patient got the number incorrect, they'd call the office and cuss out the ladies up front(receptionists).

Regards,

Brett

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 9:13 pm

Hell, my phone number must be really damn close to a Mexican-speaking one, cause I have Mexicans call my number as late as 1AM and as early as 3 AM.

Total lack of communication