800-443-6031

Robo-called, (Illegal in CA) caller claimed to be from Direct TV.  Then I was offered the opportunity to call the number above and talk to "any representive..."  Like that is going to happen.

It stinks of a scam twice over...

First, be it understood that I have NEVER had an account with Direct TV and that I have NEVER made any inquiries into their service offerings. Be it NOTED, I do not want nor have ever sought an Established Business Relationship with Direct-TV or any of its affiliates.  I NEVER provide such permissions to any company willingly.  Also, understand that I religiously "opt out" of all "contact" methods for all telephone and email marketeers at the first opportunity (or at least try to).  Also, note that I have NEVER agreed to ANY company that they can leave or contact me in any way other than for direct established business relationship transactions.

At some point, I called 1-888-866-3005 (like a FOOL) to try to be removed from Direct-TV's USPS Mailing lists, I never was able to reach a human through the phone menu maze but later learned some Touch-Tone combinations that help a little.

At some later point I noticed I was getting some lame "hapless old lady" messages that sounded like someone was trying to reach me (and I hoped to determine that I wanted to be removed from their mailing list though they would not have known that yet - OTHER THAN ME IGNORING THEIR ADs FOR 20 YEARS!!!!!!!).

For a week or so I ignored multiple prerecorded "hapless old lady" like messages.left though time/date were not recorded (unaware of the Form 1088 requirements at the time) in hopes they would get a hint (not likely for contract peddlers).

Made multiples attempts to call the 1-800-443-6031 number left on the recorded voicemail to no avail (apparently a bogus number to collect one's home number for later advertising barrages and harassment.  Never did reach a human.  Waited in queues for several hours. To "retain sanity", I finally gave up on this attempt.

Decided to try the main 1-888-866-3005 and waited through the queues again for hours.  Spoke with someone at 1-888-866-3005.  Informed them of my DO NOT CALL status and asked to be removed from all advertising via telephone, US Mail, etc...  They acknowledged it should not be happening but apparently were UNAWARE of my DO NOT CALL status (How is this possible if they are doing due-diligence?).

Tues 10/20/2009 6:24PM MDT  Another prerecorded "hapless old lady" like message to call 1-800-443-6031.

Tues 10/20/2009 Looked into the Form1088 and determined that records for time/data/etc must be keep.

Wed 10/21/2009 Again called the main 1-888-866-3005 (this time to record the time/date/etc... for sure) and waited through the queues again for hours.  Spoke with a customer sales plebe and eventually a Supervisor named Scott via 1-888-866-3005 (out of Arizona which I believe is MST versus MDT at this time of year) at 10:56am Arizona (or 11:56am Denver).  Informed him of my DO NOT CALL status while he confirmed that my prior request had also been noted. I again asked to be removed from all advertising via telephone, US Mail, etc... while stressing that my intention was to repeat the request per the FOrm1088 requirements to gather time/date/etc.

Thur 10/24/2009 6:58PM MDT  Another prerecorded "hapless old lady" like message to call 1-800-443-6031..