Answer your phone and ask them to take you off of their internal call list. Do you think it will just go away if you DON'T ANSWER? We ARE a legit business. We aren't standing on a street corner asking for money. We all work hard and make a lot of people happy. Ever stop to think you may be cussing and screaming at a poor high school girl with her first job? You or perhaps your children DID sign up to enter SOME kind of contest. Cussing these kids out is not the answer. If someone tells us to take them off of our calling list WE DO! Some companies may not - but as I said WE DO!
If you don't answer your phone you will get called again. We are a small office with 5 employees.
Don't know how we can make everyones life so miserable with a simple phone call.
I got a call last night from this same number. Telling me I won some vacation that I entered. Ha Ha I told them to forget it. First I don't enter anything with my phone number because it is unlisted. And I have been harassed by these kind of scammers in the past. So I knew it wasn't legit. But what I would like to know is how did they get my name and phone number? And I am on the Do Not Call List so they are breaking the law by trying to sell me a timeshare vacation. I think the attorney general should hear about this.
This is a company called vacation international, i worked there for a short time and just wanted to clear a few things up, if people call and don't leave messages they are the new hires and haven't been taught how to leave messages such as myself when i worked there, also there are a few girls that work there that are very inappropriate but there are others that are quite nice, the reason they call so many times is if they don't get an answer they call back twice more then they leave a message and if you are on a do not call list then make sure to not fill out any "enter to win _____" contests and tell your friends not to enter you because there is fine print at the bottom of those entries allowing our company and other sponsors to contact you with offers so if they call its your own fault, as for the cussing and name calling this is a job, some people ARE interested in receiving a vacation so they continue to do it, people don't come into your work and call you obscene names and say hateful words so DON'T do it to them because its your own fault for filling out an entry form without reading the entire thing. its also not a scam they really do send you on a vacation as an "almost free" sample of what the company does, you have to pay taxes as you do with anything that you get, weather its a car or money. they dont use the word win and they don't use the word free for that reason it costs a small amount of money and a chunk of your time
They called and told me I had won a free vacation. The caller definitely used the word "free." She insisted I had filled out an entry to win a free car and that is how they obtained my number. But I never filled out any such entry. She did not identify herself by name or tell me that she was working for Vacation International. When I pressed her to identify herself and explain what was going on, she said she worked for "advertisers in the area" but would not identify which advertisers. I told her I wanted nothing, no free gifts or free tickets to anywhere. She screeched at me "why not?!" She was rude, obnoxious, and when I continued to try to get some details and clarify from her, she hung up on me! If this truly is a legit tactic from Vacation International, they need to re-think the way they train their employees. As for using the "fine print" excuse to harass and exploit consumers, no serious business would stoop to that, and I doubt it would stand up in court. I said NO loud and clear and I think they heard me. If they continue to harass me, I will report the phone number and the company to the Better Business Bureau.
This Carla Colwell shows up on my caller I.D. These are the different numbers that have been used.
253 333 8136
253 333 7303
253 333 7304
253 333 1371
No message is left all hang ups. It is very annoying, especially when I am waiting for a very important phone call that is urgent. Does this person have anything better to do that harrass people with these phone calls. How would you like it if I did it to you Carla?Thanks