Cell Phone - Please Call Me

[Gromit]

I don't know about the rest of the world, but in SA on most cell phone packages, especially "pay as you go" type setups, we get a free sms service called "Please call me". This allows someone to send a sms to another person asking them to please phone.

I know it's petty but seriously - the call costs me exactly the same as it would cost the sender, the sender wants to contact me but I must pay for the call??:y14: I can't tell you how much this gets up my nose!!!

I understand that there's a place for this - kids needing to contact parents or extreme emergencies when the sender has run out of airtime etc but to do this EVERY time?? Total abuse in my opinion.

So why am I griping about this so early on a Monday morning? It's 8:06am here and I've already had 3 'please call me's' - all from fairly wealthy people!!! DOUBLE :y14::y14:

 

[Gromit]

Ha ha - yes of course you can ignore and delete - just irritates me that people send them in the first place. Unless it's my son or my mother, I never call them back.

 

[DaveM]

Well they will wait until the end of time for me to call them

 

[DaveM]

I was sitting in my car the one day at a red traffic light so my phone rings. I answer and this guy on the other side is looking for someone (cannot remember the name now). So I tell him he has the wrong number so he insists that he has not. So I tell him that I am in my car and there is no Mr X here but he carries on. So I say to him well I am at this red traffic light do you want me to get out and ask the people in the cars around me if any of them is Mr x. So he tell me yes as he know that this is the correct number ........ Eish

 

[DaveM]

That is for sure

 

[Gromit]

Probably a debt collector and the tosser gave a fictitious phone number! I get annual accounts to my home address for SA TV licenses in the name of Khosa, Linghwale, Mtwetwa etc! And the SABC insist they all live here at 25 Rutland Ave! Even had the inspectors come out to double check!!!

 

[DaveM]

These cal centres selling stuff is another one they just don't stop. What I do now is tell them to please hold on put the phone on the desk and just leave them hanging on until they give up. Let them pay the highj cell phone call cost fot wasting my time

 

[CarlS]

I was sitting in my car the one day at a red traffic light so my phone rings. I answer and this guy on the other side is looking for someone (cannot remember the name now). So I tell him he has the wrong number so he insists that he has not. So I tell him that I am in my car and there is no Mr X here but he carries on. So I say to him well I am at this red traffic light do you want me to get out and ask the people in the cars around me if any of them is Mr x. So he tell me yes as he know that this is the correct number ........ Eish

What a freaking idiot!