<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Silverman:
The same thing happened to me as well with the telemarketer pitch. He did make it sound as if there would be no charge for the credit protector service if the balance was paid in full each month. The moral of the story here is never purchase any service such as this from a telemarketer. Instead, have them send you information in the mail so that you can read all the fine print before signing up.</font>
Sometimes even that doesn't work. I had a telemarketer call on behalf of Chase, selling a disability credit-protection plan. She said over and over that I would NOT be enrolling for anything, that I would HAVE to initiate enrollment myself, that she ONLY wanted permission to send a piece of sales collateral to my house...
... so I said OK, and a week later here came my membership kit. "Thank you for enrolling in the Chase whatever... "
The Chase telemarketer had flat-out lied to me. I think they need to get credit for so many "gets" per shift and will do pretty much anything to achieve it. It doesn't matter to them if I get mad when I see I was lied to. It ought to matter to Chase, though -- this is deeply unethical.