I had no problems with VZW in Ohio. I had problems with VZW in the Victor
Valley area of SoCal back in late 2003-mid 2004, but they didn't involve
customer service. My experience over four years with Verizon Wireless was
that yes, you do occasionally get idiots on the other end, but they're usually
pretty good. Calling back and getting a non-idiot was your best solution. ;)

Well... that is kind of a biggie!

-Frank

Here's an easier way to get rid of such calls.

1.  Go find a pay phone (yes, they *do* still exist) in an 'out of the
way' location, preferably one which stands little chance of being
answered if it rings.

2.  Write down the number of that phone, or if it isn't shown, call
your cell phone from the pay phone.

3.  Call VZW and give them your "new" home number.  Don't worry about
them contacting you for legitimate purposes.  If they need to contact
you, they'll call your cell or send you something in the mail.

I keep getting cellphone calls from Experian, ad nauseum, wanting to
"update my business' record on their database"...as if life, itself,
depends on Experian having my correct data.  I really tried being nice to
the various women that called the first few times it happened.  Of
course, cold calling my cellphone is illegal, as is cold calling my
cellphone NUMBER which IS on the DNC list, too.  My cellphone,
unfortunately, is my business phone listed with the tax bureaucrats who
sold it, I suppose, to Experian or anyone else who wanted it.  I quite
wasting money on phone book ads years ago as it was worthless to even be
listed...generated nothing in cash flow.

This morning, about 9AM, this lady calls from Experian, yet again,
wanting my private business data, insistently.  I told her I had tried to
get Experian to stop calling me.  She continued on reading her script and
started polling me for data.  I said it was a cellphone and I had
reported them to the FCC (what a joke that is).  As she continued to ask
me the first question on her list, yet again, I tried to make a deal with
her.....

"I'll answer Experian's survey, if you answer my survey, question for
question.", I bargained.  She asked me the question again.  I asked her
what color/size/type panties she was wearing.  She got pissed, but, true
to her slave training, asked again.  "Nope, your turn, first.  What size,
color and type of panties are you wearing.  If I have to turn over
personal data to you, YOU must also turn over personal data to me."  She
tried asking yet another question.  "Have you had an orgasm in the last 8
hours?", was my reply.  I swear she starting wheezing on that one!

If Experian calls your business, try this.  I FINALLY got them to hang up
on ME, not the other way around which didn't work at all.  (If she's
watching this, I'm still fantasizing about those panties!)

Maybe....just maybe....she wasn't wearing ANY panties!.....(c;

(By the way, this is probably NOT a good idea if you are a money
borrower.  Experian is one of the Jew bankers' bigshot lender rating
companies....who think they're a god!)  I don't borrow money, I lend it.

It's amazing how well the national DNC list has worked. Probably one of the
great government acts in all of history. The List has also affected the way
the few remaining illegal, semi-legal, and completely legal (thanks to
loopholes) operate.

In my experience in the post-DNC era, if you explode at the caller and shout
a few obscenities they never call back.

Now if we could only do something about those damned political phone spams.