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If you have diabetes and are on Medicare ...
- Thread starter vchimpanzee
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I heard a commercial for The Gap yesterday.
Wouldn't taking the money to Las Vegas have been more productive?
Wouldn't taking the money to Las Vegas have been more productive?
Had to come to this thread just because of the title. There is more nonsense in commercials designed to either prey on or scare old people, which is a form of preying. Then when election time comes around they put on the commercials with foul-mouthed actors and actresses to make grey hairs appear just the opposite, which is a form of preying - and "they" know who "they" are, and so do we
First of all, I am NOT nice to phone calls for sales. I am on the Do Not Call List. (As thought they care!)
But when I get one of those calls which start out: "We are calling because one of the occupants of your household is reported to be a diabetic patient."
ME: "Who told you that? I think we have a problem. If someone revealing my confidentail medical information, you may be getting a visit from Federal Agents as soon as you explain to me who you are.... and where we find you."
And we could create a whole new thread on that wonderful thing called the Do Not Call list. <insert prohibited forms of obscene speech here>
But when I get one of those calls which start out: "We are calling because one of the occupants of your household is reported to be a diabetic patient."
ME: "Who told you that? I think we have a problem. If someone revealing my confidentail medical information, you may be getting a visit from Federal Agents as soon as you explain to me who you are.... and where we find you."
And we could create a whole new thread on that wonderful thing called the Do Not Call list. <insert prohibited forms of obscene speech here>
I think that's Chris from "Northern Exposure".
A guitar store? Seriously? And hard rock music played in the commercial.
I think it was a national commercial. Local commercials just have a different quality about them.
I think it was a national commercial. Local commercials just have a different quality about them.
Except that by asking whether someone has been revealing your confidential medical information you took the bait on a cold call sales pitch by numeric order on the keypad.
My experience has been that this type of call (We KNOW!!! you are Medicare) tend to be live person doing a live pitch. No robo-call involved. No keypad option to opt out. You answer the phone and you have a live being talking to you. So your choices are (1) Just abrupty hang up. (2) Inform them you are on the Do Not Call list... and "Your call is not welcome at my house."
But when they start talking as though they have knowledge about your age and health conditions and Medicare status.... my auto-rockets go into action.
Yes, a live cold caller using a list of telephone numbers that the caller is given: 123-0000, 123-0001, 123-0002....
These are usually college kids who claim to be calling on behalf of some company or other. You get angry and give up information instead of saying something in a foreign language and hanging up. It might interest you to know that they call firms and tell them that the head of the house may be able to get free drugs and stuff too. They have no idea who they are calling.
These are usually college kids who claim to be calling on behalf of some company or other. You get angry and give up information instead of saying something in a foreign language and hanging up. It might interest you to know that they call firms and tell them that the head of the house may be able to get free drugs and stuff too. They have no idea who they are calling.
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Yes, I know that a proper and prim citizen looks at the caller ID and if they don't know the caller or the number, they let it ring, or you pick it up for two seconds and put it down.
In this day and age where people swap out phone services every time you turn around and sometimes pick up a new second number for some personal reason, you can't just can't totally ignore the ringing phone: It may be one of your own kids calling!!!!
I have a spouse who grew up under the social standards of a small rural community. It is not polite to let a phone ring. You must answer. Well, at least you must jump up and see what the caller ID says. After 2-1/2 years of serious health issues, I have broken her about 80% of that automatic response. But she had to fall and skin her self up about 6 times and one time fall and tear her rotator cuff in the process. You think I am too verbal with telephone callers. You should have been present the day the orthopedic surgeon tried to order her to have the Oncologist stop the chemotherapy and cancel the surgery to remove the cancer mass because it was more important that he fix the little tear in her muscles of the shoulder.
This has become something of an obsession with me. Some bureaucrat at the FTC recently tried to convince me that it was my duty (and opportunity) to figure out who was calling me, and take them to court in a tort case and sue for damage relief from phone calls. All I have to do is prove to the court what phone the call came from, and prove who was on that phone at the other end. But in spite of the Do No Call legislation... they don't want to admit that it is their job to make the bad actors behave.
The folks that call and tell you how often homes are broken into and they are going to come to your rescue by installing a FREE GE home alarm system....? G.E. is no longer in the home alarm business, and you can quickly tell that their corporate public relations department is anxious to see somebody drop the "Wiley Coyotee" anvil on the heads of the phone call people.
My current methodolgy is: If I can enough people half-as-pissed-off as I am... we may get something done.
I had to laugh out loud a couple of weeks ago. I tangled with a caller: she read my phone number from her machine and said: "I will fix you. I will put your number in every machine we have." I gritted my teeth over that. Four days later, another call from the same number. The moment I said the first word to interrupt the caller this is what I heard in my ear: "Just shut the f--k up!!!!"
I think the "End of the Earth Event" is now scheduled for a week from Tuesday. I can't wait to share that phone conversation with my reluctant friend at the FTC.
In this day and age where people swap out phone services every time you turn around and sometimes pick up a new second number for some personal reason, you can't just can't totally ignore the ringing phone: It may be one of your own kids calling!!!!
I have a spouse who grew up under the social standards of a small rural community. It is not polite to let a phone ring. You must answer. Well, at least you must jump up and see what the caller ID says. After 2-1/2 years of serious health issues, I have broken her about 80% of that automatic response. But she had to fall and skin her self up about 6 times and one time fall and tear her rotator cuff in the process. You think I am too verbal with telephone callers. You should have been present the day the orthopedic surgeon tried to order her to have the Oncologist stop the chemotherapy and cancel the surgery to remove the cancer mass because it was more important that he fix the little tear in her muscles of the shoulder.
This has become something of an obsession with me. Some bureaucrat at the FTC recently tried to convince me that it was my duty (and opportunity) to figure out who was calling me, and take them to court in a tort case and sue for damage relief from phone calls. All I have to do is prove to the court what phone the call came from, and prove who was on that phone at the other end. But in spite of the Do No Call legislation... they don't want to admit that it is their job to make the bad actors behave.
The folks that call and tell you how often homes are broken into and they are going to come to your rescue by installing a FREE GE home alarm system....? G.E. is no longer in the home alarm business, and you can quickly tell that their corporate public relations department is anxious to see somebody drop the "Wiley Coyotee" anvil on the heads of the phone call people.
My current methodolgy is: If I can enough people half-as-pissed-off as I am... we may get something done.
I had to laugh out loud a couple of weeks ago. I tangled with a caller: she read my phone number from her machine and said: "I will fix you. I will put your number in every machine we have." I gritted my teeth over that. Four days later, another call from the same number. The moment I said the first word to interrupt the caller this is what I heard in my ear: "Just shut the f--k up!!!!"
I think the "End of the Earth Event" is now scheduled for a week from Tuesday. I can't wait to share that phone conversation with my reluctant friend at the FTC.
And it has stopped unsolicited phone calls at your house?????
I didn't think so.
I didn't think so.
At least for the next couple of months, Medicare open enrollment guarantees a steady supply of advertising.
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