Anyone else getting CONSTANT texts from Four Star Pizza??

DeVore

Seriously... I've texted STOP and all that nonsense. I've phoned them up and they have TOLD me I have been taken off but still they come...

So, now I dont eat their pizzas any more (after being a long time customer) and I'm raging about this constant, like every second day, texts they send.


Anyone else sign up for this Four Star Pizza bollox and are now getting spammed to death? I was abroad for a while and so they cost me 30 cent each to receive, which made it worse!

Four Star Pizza... if you like Spam on a pizza, give them a call. Or any access to your number, with or without your permission (which I never gave).


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Praetorian Saighdiuir

Site ban them for spam................/oh wait

snubbleste

Send them a letter.

Mint Sauce

DeVore wrote: »

Seriously... I've texted STOP and all that nonsense. I've phoned them up and they have TOLD me I have been taken off but still they come...

So, now I dont eat their pizzas any more (after being a long time customer) and I'm raging about this constant, like every second day, texts they send.


Anyone else sign up for this Four Star Pizza bollox and are now getting spammed to death? I was abroad for a while and so they cost me 30 cent each to receive, which made it worse!

Four Star Pizza... if you like Spam on a pizza, give them a call. Or any access to your number, with or without your permission (which I never gave).


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I ordered from them just the once (never again) and got bombarded for 6 months afterwards.

Off Topic.

Your SP charges you to receive txts!?!?

Praetorian Saighdiuir

I regularly get them off taxi companies and fast food places that Iv never ordered from. I must check to see if I'm being charged for them.

Bunch of asshats!

Alter-Ego

Make a complaint to your mobile service provider.

oppenheimer1

Praetorian Saighdiuir wrote: »

I regularly get them off taxi companies and fast food places that Iv never ordered from. I must check to see if I'm being charged for them.

Bunch of asshats!

What is an asshat? I've never seen a hat for ones backside...

Kidchameleon

DeVore wrote: »

Seriously... I've texted STOP and all that nonsense. I've phoned them up and they have TOLD me I have been taken off but still they come...

So, now I dont eat their pizzas any more (after being a long time customer) and I'm raging about this constant, like every second day, texts they send.


Anyone else sign up for this Four Star Pizza bollox and are now getting spammed to death? I was abroad for a while and so they cost me 30 cent each to receive, which made it worse!

Four Star Pizza... if you like Spam on a pizza, give them a call. Or any access to your number, with or without your permission (which I never gave).


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Thats nothin to you Dev is it? Being a millionaire n all

Alter-Ego

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

What is an asshat? I've never seen a hat for ones backside...

LOOOL, it's internet slang, n00b!!

If somebody had their head up their ass they could be said to be wearing their ass as a hat.

Kinder Bueno

Ring your service provider, they can block the number.

TheBody

Fight fire with fire......spam/text them back with boards.ie stuff!!

oppenheimer1

Alter-Ego wrote: »

LOOOL, it's internet slang, n00b!!

If somebody had their head up their ass they could be said to be wearing their ass as a hat.

Ah so it means that you're self absorbed....

I don't see how four star sending out loads of texts would make them self absorbed though.

The_Nipper_One

If you've sent STOP to them, then they shouldn't be sending texts to you like that.

Try sending STOP again and keep a record of it, then when they text you again keep a record of that, and then sue them if you want .

Used to work in an office which did alot of text marketing, and making a log of who had replied STOP was THE most important thing to do.

Someone actually made a claim against the place when they continued to get messages from us (from the time before i worked there), thus the strictness when it came to the STOP message.

OP, it's probably a case of someone being lazy on their end and not keeping records.

Steve O

Their Pizza is anything but "four star".

keith16

Steve O wrote: »

Their Pizza is anything but "four star".

Dominoes is absolute muck too.

GreenWolfe

Other than contacting the Data Protection folks I don't think there's anything else you can do.

(under "How To Complain")

http://www.dataprotection.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=406

Pug160

Pizzas are up there with razor blades as being the biggest rip offs out there.

FGR

Would Comreg be the better alternative to the Data protection commissioner? There's a legal requirement for companies to provide a method of stopping spam messages.

I used to get them from a Gym was a member of five years ago - and the problem is that it's one of those messages that doesn't have a phone number, only a name, and no unsubscribe option. I phoned them three times and only after threatening comreg did they get off their backsides and take me off their list.

My name is URL

That must be the reason they didn't call themselves Five Star Pizza

scudzilla

How come it costs 30cents to receive a text?? Thought receiving was free all the time?

DeVore

I was abroad, when you roam you pay the extra for receiving a text.

WoollyRedHat

When in Roam, do as the roamans do, order pizza.

Steve O

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

When in Roam, do as the roamans do, order pizza.

Oh the humanity...

wandatowell

That was poor

scudzilla

DeVore wrote: »

I was abroad, when you roam you pay the extra for receiving a text.

You seriously wanna check that out with your network, i've been to quite a few countries in Europe and have never been charged to receive a text. Yeah, i get charged for making/receiving a call and sending a text, but not to get one

The Barefoot Pizza Thief

Seeing as you're now in the market for a source of Pizza goodness, may I suggest Steps of Rome: best pizza in Dublin, bar none. Was a time you couldn't get it delivered, but you can now (as I can attest):

http://www.just-eat.ie/restaurants-stepsofrome

padd b1975

The Barefoot Pizza Thief wrote: »

Seeing as you're now in the market for a source of Pizza goodness, may I suggest Steps of Rome: best pizza in Dublin, bar none. Was a time you couldn't get it delivered, but you can now (as I can attest):

http://www.just-eat.ie/restaurants-stepsofrome

The balls on you!!

Pimping a business in a thread started by one of the owners of the site.

KyussBishop

Nope, but was getting pretty constant texts from Meteor until recently, even after they were recently fined by the Data Protection Commissioner for spamming marketing texts; my judgment, is that the DPC and ComReg are either neutered, or just don't care about marketing spam, so they are happy to be complicit in allowing it to happen on a wide scale (regardless of where it originates from).

It's my impression, that telecoms regulators in Ireland are pretty heavily neutered (allowing much bigger abuse than mere marketing spam texts), so the bigger the issue made of this the better, as would love to see companies (especially services providers, where they abuse regulations) slapped with gigantic fines, to wipe out 2x, any profits made from this spam and general flouting of regulations.

kc90

I get daily updates from cat facts...

murraykil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN99jshaQbY

SEPT 23 1989

the bombardment always starts Friday lunchtime

DeVore

DeVore wrote: »

I was abroad, when you roam you pay the extra for receiving a text.

You sure?

O2 don't charge you to receive texts abroad - only calls.

Get onto the Data Commissioner. They're very good, I had to put a complaint into them before and it was resolved well.

holystungun9

Alter-Ego wrote: »

LOOOL, it's internet slang, n00b!!

If somebody had their head up their ass they could be said to be wearing their ass as a hat.

Woo-pah!

Ruudi_Mentari

Outta sight, is my phone

DeVore

Checked that roaming text charge and it seems either I was high.. or its changed since then (admittedly its been about 2 years since I checked). So, thats something...

I'm going to talk to the DPC about Four Start Pizza because I get a text pretty much every day with a "deal" and twice on Fridays and Saturdays.

As for the rest of you, I warn you off Four Star Pizzas, its too late for me ... fly you fools!

gallag

Why would you ever call your business 4☆? Its like saying " we are alright, not great"

stoneill

Is this about texts or pizza?

Anyway
Something something happy days
something something happy days.

Meangadh

There's no 4 Star pizza in my area so I don't get bothered by them but I'd say at least every 3 days I get a flyer from Dominos in the letterbox. FFS talk about overkill. There's absolutely no need for it. I'd put up a "no junk mail" sign but I think they look terrible and besides I do like to get some flyers, just not a million of them.

Lucutus

Constantly from the Four Star in Ballsbridge, after a single order when working late a few months ago, shite pizza... I miss Bistro Bianconi.

Thread caught my eye as I've just got another text from them today.

Sent REMOVE to 50050, curious now to see if I get the regular Tuesday meal deal text.

Tar.Aldarion

Long time customers of somewhere so bad should know better

kowloon

The bigger pizza chains aren't the best, but like any fast food you end up hooked on the muck. Moving back into the country and out of range of deliveries has saved me. Anyway, back on topic. The only way to deal with this is to kill the first born child of every senior member of the company. Only then will the curse be lifted.

Fr_Dougal

I think it's great that Four Star Pizza are texting us to remind us of their great deals on pizza. How else would we know about Four Stars great food and at great prices too. This thread has made me hungry for pizza now, think I'll go for their MegaDeal.

Thanks OP.

o1s1n

I decided to quit eating FourStar before I become obese. Text stop to one of their messages the other day and they immediately sent me a text again with the same offer

P_1

SPAM (the "meat") on a pizza sounds vaguely tempting now that I think of it

paulbok

once you text 'stop' back to them, they have 40 days to remove you off their marketing lists. After that, they are fair game for stoning their windows, or making a complaint to comreg. I can never remember which.
Seriously though, how can it take 40 days to be removed off an electronic list?

Kidchameleon

paulbok wrote: »

Seriously though, how can it take 40 days to be removed off an electronic list?

Aliens

DeVore

The same way it takes banks 3 working days to make an electronic transfer. When it comes to their own stock/shares traders they can make them in milliseconds...

Ush1

I actually like their texts but I only get one every Friday about offers for the weekend.

I just order a scorcher and ruin my bowels for the next few days.

Kecono

DeVore wrote: »

Seriously... I've texted STOP and all that nonsense. I've phoned them up and they have TOLD me I have been taken off but still they come...

So, now I dont eat their pizzas any more (after being a long time customer) and I'm raging about this constant, like every second day, texts they send.


Anyone else sign up for this Four Star Pizza bollox and are now getting spammed to death? I was abroad for a while and so they cost me 30 cent each to receive, which made it worse!

Four Star Pizza... if you like Spam on a pizza, give them a call. Or any access to your number, with or without your permission (which I never gave).


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Having the same problem. I don't even know how they got my number. Their text STOP number doesn't even exist. The messages won't send to 50050.

I have a solution though, my m8 works in a call center and they have access to the contact details of the companies that do this stuff for them. He's gonna get me the number and I'm gonna tell them to eat **** and knock it off. Il post the number for ya when I get it.

Kecono

checked that company that is sending you the text messages for 4 star pizza. its called Saadian Technologies
(01) 6341330

DeVore

Thanks, I think I'll have a word with the DPC about them, its incredibly annoying.