From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com
On 8/20/14 9:54 PM, Jymesion wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 03:28:32 -0700 (PDT), Nicky
> wrote:
>
>> I know pretty well everything in the US seems to be different, but a
handset and a pay as you go sim card cost very little and might get round the
problem if it is only for verification.
>
> I've been burned in the past by having a telephone number.
>
> Companies can claim they contacted you or you agreed to something
> during a call. It's impossible to fight such claims if they have on
> file a phone number which is/was actually yours.
>
Well, I've never had any such thing ever happen to me, and I've had a
phone number all my adult life -- more than one number, in recent years.
Not saying you didn't have these issues -- you would know what you
experienced and I wouldn't -- but I really don't see how they can manage
that just by HAVING your phone number; the phone book contains almost
everyone's phone number, so does that mean they can commit everyone in
the phone book to their services? I really doubt it. Automated spam
calls can detect an answering machine and they hang up automatically; if
what you describe was common practice, why would they even have to CALL,
let alone have different behaviors for when there's actual people there?
If I don't ANSWER the phone, and I don't talk to anyone, I don't agree
to anything and haven't agreed, and I honestly can't even recall having
any such conflict. The only time anything related to that happened, it
was my wife agreeing to change our energy service based on a
fast-talking salesman, and I was able to force things to revert back the
next month. But that required that she actually talked with the people
involved and she had, in fact, agreed verbally to those services.
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