Any One Else Beside Me?

John B. · Apr 2, 2015

Are any of you getting calls from Tractor Supply or some name as such. They ask if they can send me a free catalog and hat then say they need to sell me some drill bits etc and make payments in order for me to get the free items. They have called 4 times. Last time I told the guy to put me on his no call list. He said he didn't have one and he needed another number to take the place of mine...can you believe it? I finally told him to have a good day.

Any of you getting these calls?

JML755 · Apr 2, 2015

No, but that's pretty ballsy. Was there a Caller Id number?

coonie minnie · Apr 2, 2015

What state do you live in? WI has a "no-call" list... and they take action against those who don't follow it (at least those they can find!).

Bob · Apr 2, 2015

WHY would a scammer have or honor an "do not call list"?

As in someone PRETENDING to be calling from a legit company to con you into "buying" something to get your CC#.

Ultradog MN · Apr 2, 2015

Yes, get yourself on the do not call list.
Then if you can get their number go to the DNC website and report them.

Chris Jones · Apr 2, 2015

I haven't. I sure hope it's not the Tractor Supply that has stores all over the US and Canada. That would be a terrible for their business--thus I bet it's not them but instead scammers using their name or something really close.

I have several times over the years received calls from someone saying they were calling me in response to my request for information on their brush killer. They'd say I sent in a card from a trade magazine for more info. When I said I didn't they say well someone must have sent in one for you and make a joke about someone thinking about me. First call I figured he might be right but on subsequent calls I figure that's just part of the tactic. Note if they claim you sent in a request for info--or someone did for you it kinda gets them off the hook of cold calling you. That's their story and they'll fake the request if they need to to stick with it.

JD Seller · Apr 2, 2015

I have gotten them. It is not the TSC that runs the stores.

Chris Jones · Apr 2, 2015

And if enough (1000s) of people report this and have proof that they don't have a previous business relationship with the company (thus giving them the right to call you) the government might expend millions of our tax dollars trying to put together a case with witnesses and documentation proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the company was responsible for the calls and then years later after the legal fight they will pay a fine amounting to a very small percentage of what they made in this scam and also a very small percentage of what prosecution cost.

Just my 2 cents. Don't count on the government to fix this stuff--we need to be self reliant. Spot scams and hang up. Block numbers. Don't answer what you don't recognize if you so fell necessary and then return the VM the person leaves if you want.

If we ban guns only honest people will loose them. If we ban spam calls only honest people will stop calling. It's really hard to find where these calls actually originate to prosecute the callers and often it's outside the US where we don't have jurisdiction--then they close up the business and open a new one and resume calls. They fake numbers and change them often. The DNC list was a nice idea and remove a lot of these calls from honest companies but scammers don't care about a DNC list.

Billy Shafer · Apr 2, 2015

I keep getting TSC sales folders. For in store specials. A week after the sale is over. Don't know who does the shipping for them.

S2710 · Apr 2, 2015

We get calls all the time, if the wife answers the phone she just hangs up. I on the other hand talk to them and I have them hang up on me. I don't say anything bad to them but I don't let them do there sales pitch. I pretend like I know them from years ago and keep on talking till they hang up. I even had one guy drop the F bomb on me, then I knew I had won. Lighten up life is too short to worry about small things

Bob

CenTex Farmall · Apr 2, 2015

Maybe it's a Texas thing. Usually when I get coupons from them they are already expired. I've about given up on TSC and now rarely darken their doorstep.

Anonymous-0 · Apr 2, 2015

I think Tractor Supply should have a name change before some lawyer finds out they are false advertising.
They sell everything, but tractor supplies.
If Mr. Schmidt could see how his business has evolved, he would turn in his grave.

MichiganMike · Apr 2, 2015

I was gonna get the drills free,magnetic led light that I could put on my tractor or clip on any thing,he was gonna send a whole box of freebies to me.He ask me what size gloves I wear, XL 3 pair in the box for me. Any room left he was gonna fill with gloves for my work hands.There was gonna be sooooooo much free stuff for me. He was gonna pay all the shipping too.I also get a free high speed grinder not the cheap china junk you see (American made)Told me to show my family and friends but don't tell them I got mine free.Now for the pitch I gotta buy a box of grinding wheels that will be put in the free box. they only cost 5 dollars each it worked out to just under 1200 dollars, uh no. gonna sell half a box for 700 uh no.He wanted to make sure I was the one that opened the box he would bill me later. uh no I am getting off the phone my back is sore from shoveling too much snow and to many hours on a tractor plowing. He then said quote...I'm a whiny little beach, in a crying/whiny voice. I say you can't talk to me like that. He hung up on me, mad I missed his pitch and he struck out after spending his time, that he could have spent with several direct hand ups. MTP...

Clodbuster · Apr 2, 2015

TSC always asks the customer for their phone number at the cash register...... Now you know why!

Sometimes I give a fake number or if a store asks for a zip code then I give them one from far away.... Usually I just tell them to type in their own phone number. I'm always polite as the person is just following orders.

Of course if you use a credit card then they can track you that way too....

Clodbuster · Apr 2, 2015

I have not answered a call from them in a long time but I have also done just what you have and talked with them until the end, and boy do they get mad when you don't fall for the $1,200 box of grinder disks....

A year ago I got the call from the other company selling great drill bits and other tools. I was on the computer at the time and started searching for the name brands of his stuff and the special alloys, but couldn't find a thing. He got mad that I was researching him during the phone call.

It's fun to be bored and have a little free time now and then!

RN · Apr 2, 2015

I get some calls from various outfits- my usual response is to tell them the states attorney's office say they have to give me their legal service address before continueing pitch--and if they don't the States Attorney's office tells me to address them as a scam operation, bunch of crooks, thieves, robbers since a honest outfit would obey the States Attorney directions quickly or get the supervisor. Usually get a 'CLICK' then. The big fun comes when the pitch continues and I get to really cuss them out 'under orders from States Attorney'- I should record some of the responses, I might learn some cuss words in Urdu or Russian. RN

farmboy48 · Apr 2, 2015

I have had the same experience as MichiganMike, got the call about all the free stuff I would get, just look at it, promote it and they will bill me for grinding discs later. I declined, and he got really abusive and profane. I hung up on him, kept getting return calls from him at inconvenient times for the next few months, always abusive and profane, always a restricted number, could not report him. Finally stopped after about a year. I think he was calling from California.

Dick Nd

oleclint · Apr 2, 2015

I have told a few of these fake callers that I no longer need what they are selling.I tell them that I am bed ridden in a nurseing home and am near death.
That usually gets them off the phone fast. Some of there responses are very funny.
As for Tractor Supply s name ,I think it should be : No Tractor Supplies. clint

Gchase24 · Apr 2, 2015

I do as Ultradog MN does. I have my home phone, cell phone , wifes cell phone number on both the
Texas no call list and the Federal no call list. I rarely recieve a unwanted call from telemarketers. But if I do will listen to their sales pitch entirely then at the end politly ask thier name.Then I inform them That I am on the no call list and tell them I am going to report them then I always follow up with reporting them on both lists. When I first placed the phone numbers It took several months and reports for them to stop. As for TSC I asked a manager once, why the store stocked oil filters for automotive and not for Tractors of any kind.His reply was good question I will bring it up to corp. Been a year since I asked and I still have to go to Deere or Parts store for filters.

Gambles · Apr 2, 2015

So....to everybody who says "report them", have you ever heard of anybody getting fined for them calling you? (BTW, I know the answer to that question)
This DNC law was a "feel good" law that was passed by the politicians for votes, but they really put no money into it for enforcement.

Mark - IN. · Apr 2, 2015

Maybe the next time that it happens, give something like this a try...
Get even with the telemarketer

howdy1960 · Apr 2, 2015

Have caller ID. If don't know number I just let machine pick up. Most times nothing from other end.

RGMartin · Apr 2, 2015

"Farm Supply" or some such lately.... Telling me I sent in a reply postcard for info on their "agricultural chemicals"... Always calling while my hands are greasy or I am a mile from the phone, and my wife or kids think it is some important call from a legitimate business. They don't seem to be able to comprehend my level of frustration with them for wasting my time.

wisbaker · Apr 2, 2015

Wisconsin takes action against"No Call List" violators? What have you been smoking or snorting? Wasn't my experience with them, my last experience with them was a phone number that was never answered and a web site with non-functional links. My latest tactic to deal with spam callers and scammers is if I don't recognize the phone number I answer the phone "Hancock County District Attorney's office fraud investigation division" about 50% hang up after that.

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