Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: SABAHE@macalstr.edu (Arun Baheti ) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Wrong Number Nightmare Message-ID: <14484@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 8 Nov 90 17:31:00 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 34 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 801, Message 3 of 6 Seeing someone else's wrong number story has prompted me to appeal to the listing in hopes that someone has a creative idea at solving my problem... One of the lines in my house in So. Cal. is 213/xxx-xxxx. It turns out that a car dealership in Downey (I am in Torrance) has the same line, but in the 714 for its Orange County customers. Most people, however, just assume that Downey is alwasy 213, and it doesn't help that it appears as 213 on many of the firms business cards. For a LONG time, we received calls and msgs on our answering machine (no, people didn't listen to the msg telling them that this was not the Car Lot; in fact the problem is compouneded by the fact that the line is apparently the car place's Spanish line!)... We have complained to the phone company and to the dealership to fix the problem, but everyone seems to think that we should pay to have our line changed or simply wait for their or simply wait for their cards, flyers, etc to cycle through in a year or so... sigh. I consider myself polite, but after getting 15 wrong numbers and messages asking "When can I pick up my truck?" (in Spanish and English) a day, I am beginning to grow tired of the whole game. Any ideas? I've already tried threatening the car dealer with the idea that I would begin to be rude to the wrong numbers and not refer them to the 714 area code. Someone? Anyone? It is amusing in one sense to listen to people on my answering machine (which makes no mention of cars) telling me about their trucks, billing problems, and car loan difficulties, but enough is enough. :-) Arun Baheti NBaheti.ElSegundo@Xerox.COM SABahe@Macalstr.EDU