Auto warranty calls to your cell phone? Try this.
Auto warranty calls continue to be one of the topics that regularly draw people to Consuming Interests --- calls about warranties for cars you don't own or for which you do not need a warranty. Tons of readers have shared their complaints about auto warranty calls, which seem impossible to shake.
As Dan Thanh Dang discovered last year, if they're calling a number registered with the Do Not Call database, you can take the identity of the caller and the number and file a complaint with the consumer protection division of the state attorney general's office.
And the Federal Trade Commission ruled last year that by December these callers had to give you an option to get off their calling list.
For those of you experiencing this torture on your cell phone, a Consumerist reader offered this idea to get some relief:
... save the number in your cell phone, and assign a silent ring tone to it. That way, should you receive a call from that number again, it will ring without disturbing you and then continue to voice mail.
That way, you'll avoid wasting your minutes on those callers.
Comments
Saving the number and using a silent ringtone is all fine and dandy except one thing...they call from a different area code each time. if u try calling the number back once in awhile it will let u remove ur number off the list but it doesnt work, they still call. Ive pressed 1 several times and talked to someone and got promised that i was removed from the list and i still get the calls. Ive changed my number and i still get them on the new number. I want to find out where their office is and just start shooting em all. Thats the ONLY solution.
Posted by: Brandee | April 9, 2009 12:16 PM