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One of the most obnoxious and deceptive marketing campaigns I have ever seen is taking place right now. It uses postcards, letters, and phone calls to sell outrageously priced extended warranties.

The mailings look like an important notice from your car dealer or automaker. There is always an eye-catching warning on the front of the card, such as: “Final Notice: Expiring Auto Warranty.”
Marla Wolfe gets a couple postcards a week telling her she needs to renew her car warranty. “I bought my car without an extra warranty,” she tells me, “so there’s nothing to renew.”

The postcards are annoying enough. Now there are constant phone calls trying to sell her an extended warranty. Wolfe received five calls in one day.
“It’s out of control,” she says. “It’s constant. It’s non-stop. I don’t know what to do. I don’t want their product. I don’t want to be scammed into whatever they’re trying to sell. If this keeps up I’ll go insane.”

Gari Weinraub’s phone number is on the national Do Not Call Registry. And yet, she gets at least one of these warranty calls a day. Weinraub knows the warranty on her 1990 Honda isn’t about to expire. It did that a long time ago.
Even worse, these sales calls are on her cell phone, a number she considers so private only family and a few friends have it. Federal regulations prohibit sales calls like these to cell phones.
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She only gets one call a day? Hell, we average 3 a day !!! "ya need that extended warranty!"""

I'm on the do not call list too.
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I had six of these post cards in my PO Box the other day. Thank goodness they don't have my phone number YET !!!
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Call #2 arrived at 3:30 central today, #1 was shortly after 10am...still 4 hours left for that 3rd one..

Still it's automated, I have no one to cuss out
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