As most everyone knows, New Hampshire is quite well known as the state that holds the first Presidential primary in the nation. Every four years, this makes it annoying to have a telephone in the Granite State. Tonight was the night it started. The first call lit up the caller ID box with “CBS 4…

If I could get CitiGroup CEO Charles Prince on the phone or catch him on the street, this is what I’d like to say to him: Ha! Ha! Ha! It gives me a great deal of pleasure to see one of the top fat cats like this jerk getting a little payback that he so…

I got an e-mail recently from my Dad about dealing with telemarketers and junk mail senders. It was one of those e-mail messages that is forwarded endlessly around the Internet, but this one actually looked like it might have some useful information contained within. The old tried-and-true methods like picking up the phone and then…

I wish I knew what it was that has ended my long period of peace and quiet. A few years back when I signed onto the national “Do Not Call” list the telemarketing calls to our house virtually ended. Once in a while (maybe three of four times a year), a telemarketing call would come…

It’s been pretty quiet around here on the telemarketing front. I have not received any more calls from the numbers I have discussed here recently. Perhaps CitiMortgage/CitiBank, whom I blame for the recent rash of telemarketing calls, has filtered out the information to their partners that I do not want to be bothered with their…

Sometimes when dealing with a certain organization or company, you just get a “feeling.” The kind of feeling that tells you that you should be extra cautious in all your dealings with them. Unfortunately, I did not get the feeling where this particular company (or companies) is concerned until it was too late. I had…