505-247-0413

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Was called by this number and do not know anyone from this number or the state.

Received a call on my cellphone at 2:06 PM 07/14/08 from this number - caller id indicated name unknown.

Got a call on my cell from this number at 8:33 AM 7/16/08. Reverse looked it up on whitepages -- says its a Land Line in Albuquerque, NM. Unpublished or Unavailable.

It is an organization called Kids First.

So I also posted a complaint about this company for the phone numbers (505) 247-1942 and (877) 837-8560 because they are the SAME company...
Read on if you want to know more...

July 18, 2008

So I just got called from this company (YET AGAIN!) and I am so tired of getting calls from them that I decided to do a research of where (505) area code calls come from... hence I found this site.  So here's my story... I'll warn you... it's LONG!

My husband AND I actually SEPERATELY fell victim to their "just listen for a few minutes with no obligation bla bla bla..." and THEN actually let them send the DVD's!  I fell victim about a year ago or more because their schpeel actually sounded good and as a mother of 2 at the time who wanted to instill good values into her children, I would be open to cheap "family friendly" DVD's... mine weren't even FREE! (See what I knew!)... I think mine were like $12 for the two DVD's.  Anyways, in my case they sent me the two DVD's and didn't say anything about calling back to get my opinion.  They just wanted to introduce me to their program.  In my case there was no hounding... (not really), they sent me the DVD's like they said and then didn't call back for awhile.  I didn't get a "follow up call" until a couple of months ago when they called to tell me that because I was a good customer or something like that, that I had a credit of I can't remember how much and that I could get two more DVD's for like $6 total... they told me the titles and one of them was about listening to your parents or soemthing like that (the "values" are pretty generic, but when you have a three year old who doesn't listen very well, I'll try a $3 movie about listening to your parents...).  They really are very friendly when they call you (so far...).  Anyways... I fell victim YET again!  So to make our situation more interesting... that week my husband tells me about this call from a "kid company" that told him about some free DVD's with no obligation all he had to do was watch them and tell them his opinion.  My husband is USUALLY pretty suspicious about these kinds of things from prior experiences in college, so whenever he is suspicious about a company, he never gives them his real name... he has a "code" name that when we get mail/phone calls for this code name, we know to be more cautious.  ANYWAYS... I was like, oh... YOU TOO?!  The wierd thing was that he said HIS "kid movie company" was called Kids First something bla bla... and MY "kid movie company" was called "Feature Films For Families".  Hmmm... maybe they were seperate companies, but I was beginning to get more suspicious myself.  So fast forward a couple of weeks when I get MY movies and he also get's HIS... the titles were somewhat similar.  MY movies were called "GALLAVANTS" and "BELLEFLOWER BUNNIES something...".  the other two that I bought last year were called "TINY HEROS" and "BELLEFLOWER BUNNIES Vol. 1 - Room To Move and Carnival".  To tell you the truth, my daughter has never watched the "Tiny Hero's" or the "Room to Move" ones as she wouldn't sit long enough to finish one (and she is one of those kids who will sit and watch a full lengh kid movie if she likes it...).  We DID actually sit down as a family and watch the "Gallavant's" one and also the other "Belleflower" one... Let me tell you, if you are a "values" family, you DEFINITELY won't like "Gallavants"  As my husband and I were watching it with our three year old daughter, there were several things that raised our eyebrows (as a three year old, our daughter didn't have a clue, but we did...).  There was suggestive underage drinking going on where this evident "minor" ant wants to join this band that plays at the local, let's call it a "drinking facility" with bar stools and ants toasting each other with a beverage (but you can't be in this place if you don't have your rear end "bump" aka are underage....)  He can't play with the band yet though because he hasn't earned his "bump" (something that grows out the end of his... achem.. rear end I guess...).  Anyways, to make a long story short, he somehow gets something "bump looking" to stick to his dairy-aire that looks like the real "bump" and so he gets to join the band... so there's my point on the underage drinking.  The other thing that we raised an eyebrow at is that the master ant is consulting this flower to see where and what his little ants are doing.  Looks like a crystal ball to me.  But I'll let that one slide since the witch on Snow White has a magic mirror... ok... now I'm ranting...

Let's get back to the Movie Hounding...
So my husband's movies arrive and then the calls come and come and COME!  The first time they called and asked for my husband's "code" name... so I knew it was them.  They called at like 9:00 a.m., my husband was at work.  So I said he wasn't available and they said they would call back... (They weren't KIDDING!), they called back again that SAME day in the later afternoon, lucky for me I programmed their number into my phone (to screen it...) and I didn't answer the phone.  I told my husband that they had called twice and he said "well, we better watch the DVD's... and time got away and we didn't.  But the movie hounds procedded to call EVERY DAY at least TWICE a day!  I never answered it cause I knew it was them and my husband was never home when they called.  The did this for WEEKS!  Even on weekend's they would call on Saturday's sometimes!  I could NOT believe how persistant they were!  At this point we had not yet watched MY movies to see that we really didn't appreciate their movies let alone their NAGGING!  Wait... it get's better... THEY HAVE MORE THAN ONE PHONE NUMBER THAT THEY CALL FROM!!  I have three programmed so far... AND they GO BY MORE THAN ONE COMPANY NAME... I have heard that same guy's voice so many times now that when another "Family Friendly" movie company going by "Kid's First" called... I KNEW it was that guy!  RARGH!!  

So I don't know what else to say to all of you also getting calls from these HOUNDS... and it is really annoying that we can't report them because they are "Non-Profit".. (balloney... they are making money)... but I really want these bozo's to stop calling us.  Any ideas?  

Sorry about the novel about this, I had a little time so I decided to rant... =-)

The other numbers that I have for these guys are:
(505) 247-0413 and (877) 837-8560

Good luck!  I advise... don't answer!

Keeps calling more than once every single day.

Got a call from this number, tried calling back and got the operator sayign the call didn't go through, go figure!

I have recieved an viewed the movies that were sent and my grandchildren seem to enjoy them.  The 4 year old and 3 year old loved the ones about the bunnies.  The older children 7 years, and 8 years, enjoyed the mystery one.  The content was very good, and the main part was the vaulues taught in the films.

I started receiving phone calls on a Saturday morning from this company almost a year ago. Lets put it this way- on Saturday mornings, I usually don't feel like talking, so I will do whatever I can to get off the phone with someone. I got the DVD in the mail about 2 weeks later and, like I told the guy, I probably wouldnt have the time to be able to watch them. He called back in another week- again on Saturday morning, and I said to give me another week- heres where it gets interesting. I didn't get another call for about 3 weeks, and I thought I was in the clear. Until I was called by the woman and accidentally pressed the answer button on my phone. I was 2 hours away from home and this woman, being as rude as she possibly could, kept asking if I was or if I knew Orlando. Eventually I told her to leave me alone and I hung up on her. I still have not stopped receiving calls from these people, and if you don't want these leaches to bother you, I suggest getting ahold of your phone company to block the numbers listed from dialing in.