Anyone else getting CONSTANT texts from Four Star Pizza??

06-05-2013 08:20AM

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 · 06-05-2013 09:52AM

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 · 06-05-2013 09:57AM

Outta sight, is my phone

DeVore · 06-05-2013 02:14PM

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 · 06-05-2013 02:17PM

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

stoneill · 06-05-2013 02:26PM

Is this about texts or pizza?

Anyway
Something something happy days
something something happy days.

Meangadh · 06-05-2013 02:27PM

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 · 06-05-2013 02:49PM

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 · 06-05-2013 03:19PM

Long time customers of somewhere so bad should know better

kowloon · 06-05-2013 05:01PM

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 · 06-05-2013 05:05PM

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 · 06-05-2013 05:17PM

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 · 06-05-2013 05:34PM

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

paulbok · 07-05-2013 05:33PM

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 · 07-05-2013 06:38PM

paulbok wrote: »

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

Aliens

DeVore · 08-05-2013 10:34AM

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 · 08-05-2013 11:49AM

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 · 19-05-2013 05:20PM

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>

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 · 19-05-2013 05:49PM

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

DeVore · 20-05-2013 11:27AM

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

u_c_thesecond · 20-05-2013 04:12PM

stoneill wrote: »

Is this about texts or pizza?

Anyway
Something something happy days
something something happy days.

sunday monday happy days
tuesday wednesday happy days

yes im sad:D

4 star pizza closed down in my town 3 years ago and my husband STILL gets texts from them. Its v odd . But it makes us feel popular so we dont mind

hoodwinked · 20-05-2013 04:17PM

this is why i always give them my landline number, never a mobile! i just don't trust that some bored part time job employee won't use my details to sign me up for something!

AgileMyth · 20-05-2013 06:01PM

I keep getting texts telling me my kids aren't in school today.

Its never a surprise, I haven't even got kids.

ElvisChrist6 · 21-05-2013 12:07AM

The worst thing about getting these texts is, I didn't sign up, I called to order on my mobile and started receiving them... Could be worse though, could be that one woman who I told by text and on the phone itself she had a wrong number, but still kept trying to contact Shauna 10 minutes after I told her! :mad:

ronano · 21-05-2013 12:47AM

texts are annoying, what's worse is the offers are always ****, you doing crap business? how about you cut the price for the product, get more in the door

maryishere · 21-05-2013 12:50AM

I hate junk texts.

SoulTrader · 21-05-2013 01:04AM

DeVore wrote: »

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

Very, very interesting... because they used to spam me... incessantly. All because I ordered one of their crap pizzas and gave my number for the purposes of the order. They kept texting me... years after I moved out of Ireland. I kept deleting them but had definitely replied STOP a few times, as per the instruction. But they never stopped, so I kept the texts, and submitted copies of them as well as records of the dates and times of both their spam and my responses to the DPC. They were good. They sat down with Four Star and reminded them of their responsibilities. Four Star apologized and said it was simply a database error, and that they had fixed the problem and it would never happen again. By way of recompense they offered to make a 100euro donation to charity. I countered by saying I wouldn't press charges if they raised the donation to 250euro, reminding them that the maximum for such an offence was 3,000euro. They agreed and that was that...

...until today. And I read this thread. And guess what, they are relentless. This was 2008, and they are still spamming.

If you want me to PM you the contact details of the very helpful lady in the DPC, let me know. Don't let them get away with it. I didn't.

rusty_racer94 · 21-05-2013 01:07AM

Most of these are run by individuals who had bought the franchise rather than the company itself. It's more like hate the player, not the game!

KyussBishop · 21-05-2013 11:12AM

Yea it is really really clear now, that the DPC is completely ineffective at stopping any of this, because their fines are "cost of doing business" fines, which not only don't undo the profits generated from the marketing spam, but which are so pitiful that they are really just a joke.

The DPC needs to start upping their fines, and hammering companies with (higher-end) 5 or 6 digit fines that properly get the message across that this is illegal, and isn't something to be flouted at will wherever profitable.

I mean, by having such pitiful fines, the DPC are practically complicit in allowing this to continue, because they must know full well how ineffective they are, yet don't do anything to rectify it.

emzolita · 21-05-2013 11:16AM

I love their texts. I got a text last week giving me any free small pizza with my order, then the week before I got free chicken wings. I'm a sucker though, always makes me order.

it is the best pizza though.

Anyone else getting CONSTANT texts from Four Star Pizza??

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