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captainsblogWe blocked their pop-ups. We ignored their pop-unders. We clicked through their "welcome screen" that was just some BS ad. So now Warren Buffett's flagship newspaper is selling the entire background of its homepage to Guidos and Guidettes:
I also remain thoroughly amused that nobody in the advertising department has figured out that "rollover" is not a good concept to use in ads for a car dealership.
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The following is an actual conversation I had this morning concerning a debt owed to one of my clients. It's against a business in a southern suburb of Rochester; it was open- at least they were still answering the phone- when I first got the claim in, but when the process server went out there with the paperwork, he found it was closed. I then called over the weekend, and got voicemail from, not that business, but another called "Eastridge Something or Other." East Ridge Road is a main drag through a northern suburb of Rochester, so my BS meter started going off. More so when I called again during business hours:
Her: Good morning. Eastridge Blahblah.
Me: Hi, could I speak to someone in accounts payable, please?
Her (somehow recognizing that I called the "old" number): This isn't [name of old business]. They're out of business.
Me: I see. So how is it you're answering their phone calls?
Her (a bit defensive now): We just took over their accounts.
Me: Well, this IS an account. It's a $2,200 bill to [name of client].
Her: IT WAS NEVER THAT HIGH!
Turns out that "her" is the owner of the old company. I explained we could do it one of two ways: she plays nice and we work it out fine, or I serve her company involuntarily, and then restrain "their accounts" and, just for fun, send the phone company out to rip that old phone number out of the wall so I can sell it. (As Ernestine Tomlin once warned about such visits from the disconnect division, "I'd advise you to lock up the liquor; he's a mean drunk.")
Her final line: Send me the invoice.
No idea if she's gonna pay it, but it sure felt better once her head had been messed with;)
I also remain thoroughly amused that nobody in the advertising department has figured out that "rollover" is not a good concept to use in ads for a car dealership.
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The following is an actual conversation I had this morning concerning a debt owed to one of my clients. It's against a business in a southern suburb of Rochester; it was open- at least they were still answering the phone- when I first got the claim in, but when the process server went out there with the paperwork, he found it was closed. I then called over the weekend, and got voicemail from, not that business, but another called "Eastridge Something or Other." East Ridge Road is a main drag through a northern suburb of Rochester, so my BS meter started going off. More so when I called again during business hours:
Her: Good morning. Eastridge Blahblah.
Me: Hi, could I speak to someone in accounts payable, please?
Her (somehow recognizing that I called the "old" number): This isn't [name of old business]. They're out of business.
Me: I see. So how is it you're answering their phone calls?
Her (a bit defensive now): We just took over their accounts.
Me: Well, this IS an account. It's a $2,200 bill to [name of client].
Her: IT WAS NEVER THAT HIGH!
Turns out that "her" is the owner of the old company. I explained we could do it one of two ways: she plays nice and we work it out fine, or I serve her company involuntarily, and then restrain "their accounts" and, just for fun, send the phone company out to rip that old phone number out of the wall so I can sell it. (As Ernestine Tomlin once warned about such visits from the disconnect division, "I'd advise you to lock up the liquor; he's a mean drunk.")
Her final line: Send me the invoice.
No idea if she's gonna pay it, but it sure felt better once her head had been messed with;)
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Date: 2010-04-19 10:51 pm (UTC)