Anyone else getting CONSTANT texts from Four Star Pizza??

DeVore · 05-05-2013 07:17PM #1

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).

</harrumph>

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 05-05-2013 07:18PM

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

snubbleste · 05-05-2013 07:19PM

Send them a letter.

Mint Sauce · 05-05-2013 07:20PM

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).

</harrumph>

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 · 05-05-2013 07:21PM

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 · 05-05-2013 07:22PM

Make a complaint to your mobile service provider.

oppenheimer1 · 05-05-2013 07:25PM

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 · 05-05-2013 07:27PM

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).

</harrumph>

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

Alter-Ego · 05-05-2013 07:28PM

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 · 05-05-2013 07:30PM

Ring your service provider, they can block the number.

TheBody · 05-05-2013 07:30PM

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

oppenheimer1 · 05-05-2013 07:31PM

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 · 05-05-2013 07:31PM

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 · 05-05-2013 07:31PM

Their Pizza is anything but "four star".

keith16 · 05-05-2013 07:40PM

Steve O wrote: »

Their Pizza is anything but "four star".

Dominoes is absolute muck too.

GreenWolfe · 05-05-2013 07:47PM

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 · 05-05-2013 07:49PM

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

FGR · 05-05-2013 07:54PM

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 · 05-05-2013 08:22PM

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

scudzilla · 05-05-2013 08:27PM

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

DeVore · 05-05-2013 08:29PM

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

WoollyRedHat · 05-05-2013 08:31PM

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

Steve O · 05-05-2013 08:42PM

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

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

Oh the humanity...

wandatowell · 05-05-2013 08:45PM

That was poor

scudzilla · 06-05-2013 12:19AM

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 · 06-05-2013 12:34AM

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 · 06-05-2013 12:47AM

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 · 06-05-2013 01:31AM

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 · 06-05-2013 03:18AM

I get daily updates from cat facts...

murraykil · 06-05-2013 04:55AM

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

SEPT 23 1989 · 06-05-2013 07:57AM

the bombardment always starts Friday lunchtime

Anyone else getting CONSTANT texts from Four Star Pizza??

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