Well, as promised I continue with the “To Laugh, Cry or Yell” story. Now called “Really People? Really?” You will get the title change. So things have been running along as usual. The boy has only gotten a few “repeat” customers texting him asking to meet. He and I devised a crafty little reply to these texts that goes something like: “Well, you say I have met you before but unless you met me on my elementary school playground, I’m gonna guess you have the wrong number.” This has certainly shut up a few of the disgusting perverts that’s for sure. Last week I figure I better Google the number again to see if the Escort company is just too embarrassed to reply but has done their due diligence. Well, I’ll be a monkeys uncle! Two new ads, same phone number, different named company are the top two hits. Seriously? What the hell is wrong with you people. So I go on a little crusade and email every single “contact us” address on the webpages, new and old (because the first sleeze bag company has ignored all my requests). The jist of my emails are this (and there are many):
Please (and I am asking politely, for the THRID time) remove my young sons cell phone number from your website. As I have requested three times, and you clearly do not care about the lost revenue or children’s safety, I will be notifying the police AND the news media next.
Within minutes I get an email reply from the new company that says only: Removed. That’s it. No sorry for your inconvenience. No whoops. Nothing. I re-Google and the new ads and the first two hits are gone. Excellent. The first company who had the number listed also got the new remove request email, and many of them, but I have heard NOTHING.
The Better Business Bureau tell me to contact my service provider. They are apparently responsible to let the company know that they are incorrectly using one of their numbers. So I email my service provider. They promptly reply that “This is a situation of the business not updating their own contact records” and then go on to tell me that they do not sell or disclose any of our personal information etc. etc. What the hell the whole “personal information” thing means is just ridiculous. And I am sorry Cell Phone Company – this is not entirely a matter of a company not updating their records, this is a matter of you not making sure the new numbers you give out are not from some disgusting, escort company.
Then there is the issue of the escort company clearly not NEEDING the business. Hello dipshits, if you have the wrong number posted, your not getting the customers. A four year old could figure that out. Losers.
So today the boy gets two calls. One from a gym saying he missed his fitness class (hey, even sleezy escort chicks have to stay fit) and the other from an “alternative” newspaper about an "ad". Guess who I am emailing next……….
