Gee, my PTG MasterCard is from MBNA.... David I. ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Susan Kline" <skline@peak.org> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org> Received: 9/15/2005 9:21:10 AM Subject: RE: O.T. - "Do Not Call List"/US Gov. >At 07:29 PM 9/13/2005 +0100, Michael wrote: >>So, use an answering machine. Are we back where we >>started yet? There's a hole in my bucket........ >There's just one company, MBNA America, touting their credit >cards, who repeatedly leaves a LONG, drawn out, taped ... "pick up >your phone NOW .... your Platinum Business Line of Credit is >waiting ... operators are ready ... pick up your phone NOW" >message on my message machine. If the turkeys who planned >this campaign had the slightest notion the hatred which their >very name inspires in a hapless business person, they would blanche. >I'm sure they're completely callous about the nuisance and inconvenience >to anyone at all, thinking only of the microscopic number of new subscribers, >but eventually, if one is the very worst of the worst for annoyance, >the poison PR will spread to the entire public. Like it is today, on this >list. >Everyone, I know this is a crassly anti-commercial message, but: having an >MBNA >credit card is an ANTISOCIAL ACT! So there. >This isn't the only trouble with MBNA: >http://www.consumeraffairs.com/credit_cards/mbna_america.htm ><phew> Got that off my chest, and maybe saved somebody some grief. >I'm changing to a digital message machine soon. >You can bleep out individual messages without affecting the rest, >and you don't have to listen to the whole message to get to >the other ones. They're numbered. If you want one particular message, >and know its number, you can go right there. >Watch your backs -- it can be a nasty world out there ... >Susan >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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