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In article <3E430838.4216173E@nospam.com>, orionwa <badaddress@nospam.com> writes:
> So then you are suggesting that the supposed rate increase may have been
> nothing more than an idle threat?

	Sure, it's called The Hard Sell.
	Comcast tries this with me sometimes.  I have cablemodem but no cabletv 
service.  They call on occasion trying to get me to buy cabletv service as 
well.  When I refuse, the salesdroid will occasionally threaten to put a video 
block on my cable line.  When I say threaten, I mean it, they use that tone of 
voice that implies they know I'm stealing cable and they're going to stop me.  
I just brush it off, though because I know there's already a video block on the 
line and I'm not stealing cable, and I don't own a tv set.  heheh.
	When my answer to their threat is a cheerful "ok!", the conversation is 
pretty much ended.

> One of the things about this conversation I didn't mention was that the guy
> on the phone didn't seem to know who I was.  He asked to confirm my name and
> address (even though he had mispronounced my name when I answered).  I asked
> why he didn't know my name and address already, and he responded with
> something like "it's better to be safe than sorry."  I then told him that my
> "better safe than sorry" policy was to not agree to purchase anything from
> telephone solicitors. Particularly ones who are asking for personal
> information!

	I hope you also refused to tell him your name and address.  I got 
snookered by this once by some idiot who called at work.  I was very busy and 
slightly annoyed to be pulled away from my job to answer the phone.  It was 
some sales guy from a techie trade rag who said he just wanted to confirm my 
address.  He said nothing about selling or buying, nothing about a product or 
service.  He made it sound like it was something we were already recieving and 
he just wanted to confirm the address.  (It's common to receive "free" trade 
rags in the computer biz, just send them your name and address and other 
demographic info for your company.)
	I confirmed the address just to get his ass off the line and get back 
to work.  A month later, got an invoice in the mail.  I turned it over to our 
accounts payable dept and told them to refuse payment, and told them I'd been 
scammed.  No problem with that, but I'd learned a valuable lesson.

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