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From: coller@utah-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Phone numbers on credit slips?
Message-ID: <3020@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Sep-84 13:49:44 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  3 13:49:44 1984
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If you don't want to give out your phone number for credit card slips, checks,
or whatever because your number is unlisted, POLITELY tell the clerk that you
don't wish to give out your phone number because its unlisted.  Saying
you don't have a phone gives a false impression (if its on a credit card
slip, the clerk probably won't believe you anyway; its very difficult to
get a credit card without a phone).  Giving a phony number can backfire,
I remembeer one time when somebody gave me a phony number on a check and
forgot some merchanise.  I tried to call him, but the number was
disconnected.  Net result was that the customer was out about $2.00 in
groceries, and would have had to do some explaining if he'd come back
for them (the check was good).  I know one clerk who once had somebody
try to give him his own (unlisted) phone number.

Be nice to clerks, they're people too (at least most of them are :-).

Lee Coller (former grocery store clerk)
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