Posted By: Richard Lynch
Date Posted: 2007-06-19 11:50:43
Telemarketer/Company Name: Specialty Graphics
Telemarketer/Company Number: 800-466-7367
The Story: They call up and identify themselves as Specialty Graphics, the guys that tell the bad jokes and sell pens and pencils.
They sell the give-away junk pens/pencils etc.
If you're not awake, and they get as far as the joke, it's a real stinker, that's maybe funny to an 8-year-old. At least mine was. Maybe they change the jokes.
At any rate, you can tell them to put you on the "do not call" list, but they just hang up, and call back in a few weeks.
I'm seriously considering small claims court, especially as I'm about to abandon my land-line phone number they call anyway, so there is very little they can do to retaliate.
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