Has This Happened To Anyone Else??
 

Howdy y'all :)

I'm not going to name the site because I know that's taboo here. But there is a particular quilting site that I have gone to several times to enter sweepstakes they've had there. But they require you to give your phone number, and every time I've given it, I will get calls from telemarketers for weeks! I've started to put down the number of an old landline I used to have instead of my cell phone number, just to keep the junk calls from starting up again! I figure if they have my email address as well as my snail mail, then they can contact me if I win! Has anyone else had this problem?

Donna

your old land line number is somebody else's new land line number.
you have unwittingly doomed her to get all of "your" junk calls.

i wonder what would happen if you used the site's customer contact number instead. LOL

When sites ask for phone numbers - and won't let you continue without so doing - I just make up a number. You need to use an actual area code (so I use my actual) and then 555 and xxxx. I get way, way too many nuisance calls already. Don't need to add to the mix. If a phone number is required to progress on a site, I don't give them one at all.

Never enter sweepstakes.Or enter for free anything.They just want your numbers to sell.

Even when I write a check and they ask for my phone number, I have a special phony (get it?) number. I heard once that we don't have to ever give out our phone number because it is an invasion of privacy. We pay for that number, we don't have to give it out. I remember once I bought a whole weeks worth of groceries and they asked for my phone number - I said it was unlisted, I don't give it out. "We require a phone number". I said "That is against the law and is an invasion of privacy" and walked out. They had to uncheck all the food I bought and put everything away. I'll show my driver's license and that is it. If it isn't good enough for them, they aren't good enough for me. Iwill say this, though, and that is more people working in the store won't require one if you're ;nice. Actually, one of the people that asked me for my phone number and I said no, told me that they have to have A NUMBER to open the cash register. So that was how I started making up my "phon-y" number. I also told my husband - don't ever give out our phone number - better walk out of the store. Another place I don't go to is a place that will not accept a check. If my check isn't any good to you, why would my cash? Don't get me going here!!!!! Have a good day.Edie

And sell they do!! SO entered some contest and since then he has been put (it seems) on every charity list there is wanting money. He's been re-cycling a whole lot of trees:)

When paying by check and the cashier is asking for a phone number, that information is required to them by the INSURANCE company that insures them against bad checks. I'm sure they probably can't open a register without that info. But nothing says it needs to be the actual one!

How about giving them your area code and then 111-1111 or something like that? Perhaps tell them that you no longer have a phone due to rates going up??

I've tried putting in my area code and all 0's but that didn't work.

If they need a phone # to open the drawer, tell the cashier to use their # and see what they do! I never give info out and try very hard to not shop at stores that require this info. And your address is right on the check so they can find you if they need to. It is all just info gathering to sell. So these businesses are not only taking your money they sell that info to make more money. Not a very customer friendly thing to do IMHO.
peace