Lol I hate spam email, spam phone calls, and junk postal mail...

You should setup an email agent that automatically takes all your spam and mails it back to them using an address you know they read like sales. So if the company were Joe Smith Chevrolet, it would be like sales@joesmith.com. That would get 'em lol!

How about those companies that dial your phone randomly to try and sell you something? Right now the big ones are called things like "Mortgage Resuce Group" or "Mortgage Assistance Center of America" or stuff like that lol...

One of them called me and I played along.. They told me they would lower my mortgage in half and all I had to do was send my next 2 mortgage payments DIRECTLY TO THEM rather than to my bank! Can you believe these con artists!? I pitty the poor guy who actually does this.

I actually work as a software developer for a company that writes IVR computer software (which includes outbound dialers). I have often thought about setting up one of my test machines to auto-dial a company that calls me on my cell phone trying to sell something and just repeat a message over and over that will automatically repeat anytime you press a key... lol... I could even have it call them simultaneously on, say 96 different lines at once... That would get their attention I'm sure...

I knew someone who kept getting junk mail from a company at his house, so he collected it all in a box for a year, then shipped it back to them at the end of the year along with a dead fish lol!

 

"Hey Chuck, yeah Phil...."How Can We Sell This Guy a Used Camaro"

LOL...

 

I am a software developer so I believe I have a little computer savvy (Okay.. a little!) The other day I got a call from "out of area" which for some reason I answered.. on the other end was a fellow who I could barely understand, something like:

"Hello Mr. X I'm from your computer company and we just got an error log from your computer, I'm calling you back so that we can explain how to send us more of the information we'll need in order to fix your computer, so if you're not logged on, please log on I'll tell you what we need to do"..

HUH! My computer, an error log! Uh yea, sure!

"Okay.. give me a minute to get it setup and I’ll let you take it from there" I replied as I put the phone on speaker and laid it down on the counter.. so how long will this (bleeping) scammer hang on.. not long..

Pretty brazen, and they had my name, which I wondered about as I have an unpublished number.. unfortunately some people are going to fall for this and end up having all their keystrokes captured, so much for all their passwords..

 

OP just hit the spam button already geez

 

Time's are tough. Dealers are hungry.

 

I think gmail is the best of the lot. Get an email once when you're done with them, check mark it and make it spam. Simple to do. I use gmail for folks I want to deal with temporarily and hotmail.yahoo when I just want some info with no real intention of every going back. You know those **** deals you'd rather your wife not be aware of. My real email address is for family, friends, trusted buy online sites, etc. We bought our car in July 2005 and I still get emails on hotmail for the hot dog days. Phoenix is a long drive for a free hot dog and I like hot dogs.

 

Where in Phoenix!!!!

I'll head on over there for you and chow down on a few of them.. uh .. hm.. have to be careful what one says about hot dogs as there appear to be some hot dog lovers in this thread..

 

It happens. There are ways to deal with spam. No big deal.

Don't mess with hot dogs though!

 

Hot Dogs FTW

 

And so am I. Pass the hot dogs!

 

That's exactly what I would do - set their address as junk so any quote they may send goes directly in the garbage. There is too much competition for the limited number of buyers today. No buyer has to put up with crap like that. It isn't that hard to set up your mailing (calling) lists to be very selective in who you contact and how. Computers have made great strides in the past 40 years.

 

Most of the cars I've bought for the past eight or nine cars, I've bought on the Internet. My experience is that a lot of so-called Internet dealers do not respond to e-mail.

Doesn't make sense to me, but it's what I've encountered. So, when I get to the point I'm really serious about a car, I call the dealer and do my price negotiating that way.

So far, it's worked for me. I've been happy on the purchase of three Corvettes and four Ford trucks.

 

Definetly not interested all ready.

 

I love hot dogs!