Skwim
Veteran Member
I just received a call from a person purporting to be from the technical department of Direct TV, who started out by having me check my TV reception because DTV was redirecting its satellite signal tomorrow and I might need a free upgrade for my receivers. And . . . . . because I'm such a "good costumer" he then offered to permanently reduce my monthly bill by $35 if I paid a one time fee of $149. Not a bad deal at all, until he said he needed my credit/debit card number to complete the transaction. I told him, I didn't call him, he called me, so he should have that information on hand, and that I would wait until he got it and read it back to me. After hemming and hawing he said he wasn't privy to such information, and handed me over to his supervisor, who only barely spoke better English. He told me that for security reasons he couldn't give out such information over the phone, but could put me back in touch with the technical department, to which I said "and what is he going to tell me that you can't?" His reply was just more tap dancing, at which time I hung up and called DTV Customer Services who told me they had no such discount program going on, and knew nothing about DTV redirecting its signal.
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