If you can't get them off the phone quickly, try giving out random part
numbers with outrageous prices. That's get them off the phone. Works for
me! :)
--Navid
>
> Ok I'm sorry in advance for this post having marginal autox content but
> does anyone have a CURRENT number for Clutch Masters in Alameda or maybe
> Oakland? Hint: It is NOT (510) 522-2202. I recently picked that number
> up for my Alameda office and starting every day at 12:03, I get all of
> these calls, many verging on the truly pathetic. I don't how many on
> this list are old enough to remember the Cheech and Chong "Dave's not
> here" routine, but paraphrasing, it goes like this:
>
> "Hello, is this Clutchmasters?"
> "No, thats an old number. This is an architectural firm"
> "Well do you do clutches?"
> "No, I'm sorry, we don't. I don't have a forwarding number for them"
> "But could you tell me how much an '89 Civic clutch would cost?"
> "This is not Clutchmasters"
> "But you do clutches, right?"
> "We don't...."
>
> This can go on for several rounds. The truly gifted are even beginning
> to copy my mobile number from the voice mail that very clearly
> identifies my firm and call me in the field. I won't bore you with the
> Labrador Rescue Service for lost or surplus dogs that my Orinda office
> has been receiving more or less continuously for the past 8 years, but
> if anyone here actually does know where Clutch Masters and their phone
> are these days, I can do my bit to advance humanity's clutchless and
> clueless.
>
> your autox buddy,
> Tony
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