Fax Fun: 18 months later

In April 2009 I posted about nuisance fax calls to our house.  Read it here.

We hadn't heard from our Fax "Friends" for a while, but the other day, those calls came rolling through again.  The stars must have aligned, because it happened to be one of those days when the phone was ringing off the hook anyway, and add 5 calls from the fax machine.  Thankfully I wasn't home when they tried to send me the fax.  I might have ripped the phone off the wall and thrown it into the street.

But, as I was deleting the 7 messages from my answering machine, 5 of which were from the fax, I decided to try and find an office number once again to see if I could get this thing resolved.  Remember those stars aligning?  Yep.  I finally found a number online that would get me a human being!  Score!

So I called today and wasn't really sure how to start.  "Hi, um, I'm just an ordinary citizen..."  I'm sure the girl on the other end of the line thought I was nuts with that opening line.  But she transferred me to someone else and I again explained the situation.  That woman was skeptical she could help, since the number on my caller ID did not match their fax number, but she promised to look into it, and wouldn't you know, she called back within 10 minutes to tell me she'd found my number in the system and had deleted it.  Thank you!!  I should send her cookies.   Or the peanut-butter-caramel swirled brownies I made yesterday.  (Yummm!  If you look up the recipe, I skipped the espresso powder.)

Turns out our number was linked to a regular customer of theirs, so every time he made a purchase the computer tried to fax him an invoice, but he now uses email fax or something like that.  Whatever his method, cue the Hallelujah Chorus, 'cause I'm FREEEEEEEEE!

Fax Fun

About a week after we moved into our house, we started getting calls from a fax machine. And not just one call a day...no... they have it set to auto-redial something like 5 times. Just about every week. It drives. me. NUTS!!! So when it's a fax day I turn off my ringer. We didn't have Caller ID so I had no way to know who was trying to send us a fax.

A couple months ago I talked Nathan into upgrading our phone service to include Caller ID. It was only a dollar more! I was very happy when the next fax day rolled around to be able to get the number so I could do something about it. Unfortunately, it's unlisted so I have no way to find a phone number to talk to a human.

Today is another fax day. And I suddenly realized, I don't have a phone number for them to tell them to stop calling, but I could send them a fax back. Yes, I know you're all saying "du-uhh," but it was a moment of insight for me. I asked Nathan send them a fax from work. He just IM'ed me and said he sent the fax, but no answer. So he set it to auto-redial 15 times. Take that!!! Mua-hahah!