I received this email from GM today regarding my vehicle warranty with GM:
As a valued customer of MacCarthy Motors, please read the following information.
If you receive a phone call regarding your vehicle warranty from anyone other than your selling dealership, this call is a SCAM! Please do not give them any information concerning your vehicle or any banking information. If you have questions or concerns regarding your extended warranty, please call us at (250) 635-4941 and speak to either your sales representative or ask for the Business Office.
Their sales pitch is very good, but please know this: Due to privacy issues, General Motors and MacCarthy Motors would NOT give your vehicle or personal information to any company. General Motors DOES NOT solicit business from its customers over the telephone. With regards to warranty, the ONLY way to purchase a General Motors warranty is from a licensed General Motors dealership.
Sincerely,
Einar Hanson
Customer Relations Manager
MacCarthy GM
I think the important thing to remember here is how expensive a car can be to repair if it has a breakdown after the warranty.
Me, I feel much better knowing that I recently paid to extend the warranty on my 1992 Mercury. I didn’t even know that it was still under warranty - I’m so glad they called me!
I haven’t owned a car since '93 … and haven’t really not missed the extra expense … don’t pay a gym either since I’m doing much more walking … and meeting many more interesting people … all in all it’s a great plus being minus a car … and how much did that extra warranty cost you? …
People who fall for these kinds of things are the same people that fall for those internet chain mail letters saying that MSN, Yahoo, AOL, etc, are shutting down accounts because there’s too many members. “send it to 100 people and your’s won’t be deleted”
You’ve confirmed to them that you listened to the message by pressing 2. So they flag your phone number as someone who actually listens to messages Phone spam is like e-mail spam – the last thing you want to do is let them know you’ve heard or read their message.
Have any of you signed up for the federal do-not-call list? If so, they probably sold your phone number.
Speaking of being scammed, one of the biggest offenders out there has to be Reader’s Digest. My grandmother bought me a subscription almost thirty years ago as a Christmas gift and when she died, my uncle carried on the tradition since it makes for nice, light (“bathroom”) reading for the family.
When I got married twenty years back and changed my last name, I didn’t bother asking her to get the magazine to change the name on my subscription and ever since then, it’s been amusing to track the amount of junk mail/attempts to sell me products/credit cards/etc that can be traced back to Reader’s Digest selling my subscription info simply because it comes under my maiden name-a name I otherwise never get addressed by anymore!
Oh yeah, we got the GM call the other night. Too bad it’s automated, I’d have loved to have given a tele-marketer an earful over that one.
Random Telemarketer - “Hi, we’re phoning on behalf of this stupid corporation! we’re conducting research on the most useless topic in the world! It will only take 30 minutes of your time!”
I have gotten the ‘your vehicle warranty is about to run out’ phone call from 1-949-256-9145 on my cell, house phone, and many guys at work have gotten the call on their cell. It’s almost like they got the company phone list. Very annoying.
Phone spam is like e-mail spam – the last thing you want to do is let them know you’ve heard or read their message.
