How not to get phone telemarketing spam from the Georgia Cup
It started again this week, the 1-2 times per day pre-recorded telemarketing spam from the Georgia Cup advertising their upcoming events. As will all un-solicited marketing spam, especially over the telephone, this annoys me to no end. Valuable time of my day is wasted deleting unwanted messages from the GA-Cup.
I posted a comment on the GA-Cup blog to ask how to be removed from the call list and if they could post those instructions on the blog for others who also with to be removed. Here was the response:
"Mr. Whitmore, Thank you for your very public display of disappointment in the GC calls. Sorry. You could either "PRESS 5" when you recieved the call to be removed forever or you can email info@georgiacup.com. All numbers called were given to us by you. Either through signing up for our newsletter or other means. We use this to better communicate and have received overwhelming support for the calls. AGAIN, you can either "Press 5 next time or email info@georgiacup.com with your number".
First of all, I want to thank the GA-Cup for the quick response. That was great. Second, I want to note that this was not posted on the blog, but rather posted on this blog. Interesting. Third, I never listened far enough into the messages for any instructions to tell me how I could opt out, so never knew about the "press 5" thing, so I appreciate the email option.
Overall, I was left with a very bad taste for the GA-cup after a few grand debacles last year. I'm at that annoyed stage where anything but perfection and superior customer service will only deepen my disgust. I do want to give the series a second chance this year, but I am skeptical.
So, lesson here: don't give the GA-cup your phone number, address, email, etc. Because they WILL use it for other than registration purposes. Makes me wonder what happened to all those credit card records I filled out when renting the timing chips. Hmmmm
Has anyone else out there had issues with the GA-cup? Timing chip rental, crazy entry fees, messed up results, delayed results, parking fees, no prize money, etc?
I posted a comment on the GA-Cup blog to ask how to be removed from the call list and if they could post those instructions on the blog for others who also with to be removed. Here was the response:
"Mr. Whitmore, Thank you for your very public display of disappointment in the GC calls. Sorry. You could either "PRESS 5" when you recieved the call to be removed forever or you can email info@georgiacup.com. All numbers called were given to us by you. Either through signing up for our newsletter or other means. We use this to better communicate and have received overwhelming support for the calls. AGAIN, you can either "Press 5 next time or email info@georgiacup.com with your number".
First of all, I want to thank the GA-Cup for the quick response. That was great. Second, I want to note that this was not posted on the blog, but rather posted on this blog. Interesting. Third, I never listened far enough into the messages for any instructions to tell me how I could opt out, so never knew about the "press 5" thing, so I appreciate the email option.
Overall, I was left with a very bad taste for the GA-cup after a few grand debacles last year. I'm at that annoyed stage where anything but perfection and superior customer service will only deepen my disgust. I do want to give the series a second chance this year, but I am skeptical.
So, lesson here: don't give the GA-cup your phone number, address, email, etc. Because they WILL use it for other than registration purposes. Makes me wonder what happened to all those credit card records I filled out when renting the timing chips. Hmmmm
Has anyone else out there had issues with the GA-cup? Timing chip rental, crazy entry fees, messed up results, delayed results, parking fees, no prize money, etc?
posted by Josh Whitmore at
5:56 PM
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