JB Mobile (optus?) promotional offer

[Ext User(GeoOscar)]

Hi,
Have just received a telemarketing promotion from JBMobile (supposedly in
sydney, and a subsidiary or associate with optus) They are offering a
Nokia 6610i and what appears to be very good rates for 5 minute calls
throughout australia. Does anybody know if they are legitimate, and or/any
experience of this organization ? I cannot find anything out about them via
Google.
Otherwise could be interested in their offer, but dislike high pressure
telemarketing!
Thankyou in anticipation.

GeoOscar

[kashgar]

I've just received an aggressive telemarketer, supposedly from Sydney,

I hate telemarketers, and will nail them legally for harassmentif I can get an Aussie address, telephone nr or ABN,
something to identify them

anyone got any printed info that may give a clue...

[Ext User(Rod Speed)]

kashgar <kashgar.1x2zhp@no-mx.phorums.com.au> wrote

> I've just received an aggressive telemarketer, supposedly from Sydney,

> I hate telemarketers, and will nail them legally
> for harassment if I can get an Aussie address,
> telephone nr or ABN, something to identify them

Fat chance.

> anyone got any printed info that may give a clue...

You aint gotta hope in hell of nailing them legally.

[desone01]

I too have had a gut full of telemarketers.

I will tell you of my experience. I kept getting phone calls usually at tea time about 6 to 6.30pm several times a month from a mob called Trendwest who market timeshare at the Gold Coast (Bundall business centre). This had gone on for about two years or so and I can remember shortly prior to the calls commencing I received an unsolicited letter in the mail. I threw the letter in the rubbish. I received a followup phone call about a week later and I told them I threw the letter in the bin. They tried to argue the point with me and I told them I wasn't interested in any holidays (time share).

I finally got sick of all the harassment and contacted Trendwest direct at Bundall. I told them if I received any more calls I would visit btheir office and disable their entire telephone network. They told me the calls enimated from the Philipines. I told them I didn't care where they came from that I would visit their office at Bundall and pointed to the fact that they would be very unhappy to see me.

I also found out about the ADMA web site and registered myself on the do not contact list.

A few days later I received another phone call from Trendwest this time asking to speak to my wife. I did not know it was them at first until my wife told me. I sent emails to every Trendwest contact (Aus and US) threatening retaliation. They have not contacted me or my wife since.

About a month or so ago I started receiving telemarketing calls from an Asian country (possibly India) telling me I would be receiving a free Nokia mobile phone. The company was JB Mobiles. I told them I wasn't interested. Since that first contact I have received at least four follow up calls. At about 6.15pm on 28 Oct I received another telling me I was about to receive my free Nokia mobile. I told them - NO I WASN'T and hung up. This afternoon about 12.30pm I received another call from JB Mobiles. I told them quite firmly I wasn't interested and asked who the carrier was. I was told OPTUS. I told them I again wasn't intersested and the fact that I was on the ADMA do not contact list and I believed Optus were members of the ADMA. I also told them I regarded their calls as harassment and if I received any further calls I would locate the neareszt OPTUS mobile phone tower and disable it. I told them to pass the message on. I also contacted OPTUS in Australia and told them the same thing. JB Mobiles is a subsidiary company of OPTUS.

You wouldn't believe this but whils't I was typing this message I received another call attempting to sell me a mobile. Again it appeared the call came from India. The company started with M. I was too annoyed to get the full details. I asked the carrier and was told it was OPTUS. I told them my story including my retialiation threat. The called agreed to contact the supervisor and have me taken off the list.

THEY HAD BETTER DO SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ext User(Horace_ Wachope_)]

On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:35:32 +1000, desone01 wrote:

> I also told them I
> regarded their calls as harassment and if I received any further calls
> I would locate the neareszt OPTUS mobile phone tower and disable it.

I realise that you're frustrated, but you really ought not to make threats
like that -- even if you have no intention of carrying them out. You could
get yourself into quite serious trouble.

[Ext User(Simon Templar)]

Horace_ Wachope_ wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:35:32 +1000, desone01 wrote:
>
>
>>I also told them I
>>regarded their calls as harassment and if I received any further calls
>>I would locate the neareszt OPTUS mobile phone tower and disable it.
>
>
> I realise that you're frustrated, but you really ought not to make threats
> like that -- even if you have no intention of carrying them out. You could
> get yourself into quite serious trouble.

Probably better off just to tell them to FUCK OFF!



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[Ext User(John Henderson)]

Simon Templar wrote:

> Probably better off just to tell them to FUCK OFF!

That's exactly the wording I used with them (I'm usually mild
mannered). Haven't heard from them again.

John