Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: "Steven W. Grabhorn" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 800 Wrong Numbers Message-ID: <2881@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 13 Jan 90 07:01:25 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego Lines: 29 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 27, message 9 of 9 Speaking of wrong 800 numbers, today's (1/12/90) San Diego edition of the Los Angeles Times had the following article (a little background, the San Diego Padres are up for sale by Joan Kroc): It started with a joking headline on Times sports editor Dave Distel's column on Thursday: "Have a Credit Card Ready and Call Now! 1-800-BUY-PADRES." Richard Cole, co-owner of Emslee Products of Cleveland, Ohio, is not laughing. His company sells sanitary napkins. Its number is 1-800-BUY PADS. "Our phone has been ringing all day," Cole said. "My secre- tary can't get any work done, I'm losing orders, I'm paying 12- cents per minute for every call, what in hell are you people doing out there?" Cole hopes people will stop phoning. He spent an exasperat- ing day telling callers he's not related to Joan Kroc. "I told them, `Listen, I can't sell you a baseball team, but if you need sanitary napkins, toilet seat covers or diapers, I'm your man,'" Cole said. "I didn't make a single sale!" Steve Grabhorn, Code 645, Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA, 92152 Phone:619-553-3454 Internet:grabhorn@nosc.mil UUCP:..!sdcsvax!nosc!grabhorn