A few more questions
More and more, I doubt that I am the target audience for the majority of phone calls I receive. Could it be that I ask too many questions?
We have Daniel, from Amazon. That order for an iPhone, which has been hanging around for more than six months, and has gone up in price by another $100. I asked. Inflation is one thing, but six months late to deliver? Hardly seems like Amazon. Usually, I get my stiff in a matter of days. The response to my question, after disjointed explanation on how my name was being used to defraud me; a dial tone. No matter, they’ll call back.
And then there is Alexa, offering to eliminate my balance on the combined Visa/MC/Amex. I asked about the limitation, since I had recently rackup up the balance on that supercard to almost a half million dollars by ordering tickets for world cruise with complimentary iPhones. When I hesitated to provide my card number, another dial tone. Is there a pattern here?
I have too much time on my hands, and a landline phone number that works with those dialer programs.
Oddly my mailbox (the paper one) gets no such offers. Postage has an up-front price. It also carries real penalties for fraud. I look forward to the day when similar controls are added to my telephone solicitation. Sure, I will have to find something else to while away the hours, but that’s a risk I am willing to accept. And if we wipe out a whole sector of the economy (in India?) that is acceptable.
