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the wrong telephone number. Apparently, instead of the 888 prefix, the technician used 800...

SOURCE: http://www.nypost.com/apstories/V3408.htm

The number belongs to Mo' Money, a Pensacola business that manufactures and distributes promotional items with company logos, including T-shirts, caps, gym bags and jackets. A federal jury awarded the damages to Mo' Money on Wednesday.

``It was a nightmare,'' Mo' Money president Cliff Mowe said Thursday. ``We had as many as 8,000 extra calls a month, and these were all angry people.''

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``People, when they got us, were very hostile, and you couldn't get them off the line because the only number they had was ours,'' Mowe said. ``You'd have to explain it and go through it, and a lot of times they'd call you right back anyway.''

lol, this is funny... and expensive... Why were the people so hostile and angry? lmao :D
 
perhaps i could have mo' money's no. to complain when my home made rig goes fubar, at least i'd get a laugh out of it :D
 
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