I clicked the cash offer now button on Auto Trader, Don't ever do that !
 

I've been car shopping, and for the halibut, I put in my info this morning , with a potential trade in .
I struggle to keep up with the phones at work already. I just stopped for the day, and see I missed 13 phone calls in the last few hours on my cell . I did not recognize any of the numbers . I made the mistake of calling a few back thinking they may be potential customers . " NO, I AM NOT COMING INTO YOUR DEALRSHIP!!!"
Every one of them. Car sales people .
I never buy retail. I don't do used car salesman. No wonder people get frustrated . Wonder how long they will pound my phone .?
Gonna be a long week . I should have known better.

Good luck.


But it could be worse. My cat likes walking over the keyboard. I'm afraid one day he's going to do a "buy now".

You should see the stuff the cat posts in the PARF forum with your login ....

It could go on for a while. The best is when they hand a list with your name and phone number on it to the newbie sales person to make cold calls.


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Man blames cat for child pornography found on his computer
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I'm sorry Fred but you'll have to change your name and enroll in the witness protection program.
fastralphracing......doesn't have quite as good a ring to it.

Same thing with TrueCar. I filled all the info out, realized what was going to happen, when it didn't just show me a bunch of prices, and then accidentally hit "submit" instead of exiting out. My phone started ringing within minutes and the calls did not stop for over a month. Months later I went into the local VW dealer and asked for the guy who had left me so many vms. I was finally ready to shop and told the guy he was the one who blew up my vm the most. He said, "In other words, I was doing my job, right?" I'm in sales, so I get it. We couldn't make a deal, but I do have to respect his persistence.

In my current job I buy leads. Direct mail leads are considered the gold standard because people have to put their cigarette down, grab a pen, fill the postcard out by hand and then put it in the mailbox. You can't imagine how many people say they never filled it out, when I have their handwritten info in my hand. I even closed one a few weeks ago, mailed in by a homeless guy, who kept no-showing or canceling. I finally knocked on the door of the address, his sister answered the door, told me her brother was homeless, but invited me in and I closed her husband. So this stuff does work.

For anything like this where there's a high potential for getting spammed or having your info sold, it's best (or almost compulsory) to use a throw-away email address and/or throw-away Google Voice number.
This includes requests from insurance companies/brokers, mortgage brokers, hotels, car dealerships, etc.

I went through similar with car insurance quotes.

Decreasing frequency after six months.

Went away after two years.