SPAM telephone calls selling extended vehicle warranty

[chuckycheese]

Originally Posted by coastal chic

The car dealerships can share our info with other companies they do business with.....I'm sure the extended warranty companies give the dealerships a kick-back....so there you go.

The dealership is one of the 3 possibilities I mentioned and I intend to find out, for sure, it it's them. If I owned an auto dealership, I wouldn't consider it because repeat business and referrals are terribly important to their business. I strongly suspect that most dealerships don't do it.Based on my posts, do you think I'd buy another vehicle from a dealer that I knew would sell my information?

I find it interesting that nobody else has commented on having the same problem since a lot of people in this area share all 3 of the criteria I mentioned. There are very few different people who post on this forum and I'm guessing there are very few people, overall, who look at regularly.

As a result, I think this 'dead horse' has been sufficiently beaten.

[JERSEY MAN]

Originally Posted by chuckycheese

You just don't get it. Getting "an unwanted call" isn't the problem. Once these people get a a hold of you, it amounts to between 1 and 3 unwanted calls every day, 5 or 6 days a week. That would bother any normal person A LOT. (I hope it never happens to you.)

I'm convinced it will end soon because so many new vehicles are added to the newly expired warranty list each day and calling the newest people offers the most lucrative opportunities.

I do get it, I get calls all the time. I let them go to voicemail. They still send extended warranty mail to my house for my mothers Grand Marquis. She died 7 years ago. I throw it in the garbage. As been stated before by another poster when you buy a new car your data goes on records that most likely was purchased. Many times when the salesman says "Sign here" on one of them approx. 20 documents say that your info can and will be shared to one of their affiliates. Good luck.

[Travelassie]

Originally Posted by chuckycheese

You just don't get it. Getting "an unwanted call" isn't the problem. Once these people get a a hold of you, it amounts to between 1 and 3 unwanted calls every day, 5 or 6 days a week. That would bother any normal person A LOT. (I hope it never happens to you.)

I'm convinced it will end soon because so many new vehicles are added to the newly expired warranty list each day and calling the newest people offers the most lucrative opportunities.

A friend of my mother's got suckered into a deal with one of those extended warranty scams. What should have been a clue to him, if he hadn't been hovering right on the edge of an Alzheimer's disease diagnosis was that the same folks had called him about warranties on cars he didn't even own anymore, but he fell for it when the called about the car he currrently owned. He discovered the scam when he took the car to the dealers for some warranty work and was informed there was no extended warranty. They got the police and his bank involved, but I am not sure he got his money back.

The continued success of too many of those scams are because of people like this guy. And the entities doing the scamming know that. As someone allegedly with all my mental faculties intact, I figure I know when a deal sounds fishy, or I don't do business over the phone, or with a company with whom I didn't initiate the contact, or some other guiding principle, and I will tell the folks to get lost and don't waste my time. But should my own faculties go that route of that poor man I referenced above, I am not so sure what I would do.