The Limited is evil
I have loved life under the do-not-call list. I hate those who play the loopholes. I just got a recorded message from Limited Too announding some stupid alleged sale. I called the number to yell at them for calling me so I could enjoy telling them that they had just lost us as a customer because they did not respect our wishes not to be called. But there I get no human being, only more recordings and a chance to supposedly opt out of future calls that requires me to enter my number, which I don’t trust. Retail rats.
Tags: Business
November 18th, 2005 at 4:26 pm
my 2 cents
before you hear phone ringing to add message for telemarketeers that if they want continue the call they will need to pay a fee to make up for the time that “the posible future costumer” is on the phone, even if there is no sale. they need to give their company name / name of employee’s name / addres first / telephone number and by doing this they are accepting that a fee needs to be paid.
do not forget mention the height of the fee!
November 18th, 2005 at 5:23 pm
You’re a curmudgeon.
November 18th, 2005 at 5:42 pm
I’m not that haughty.
I’m just plain pissy.
November 18th, 2005 at 5:46 pm
Book Proposal: Jeff’s Nightmare
Short synopsis: Judith Miller gets a job at the Limited selling Dell computers…
November 18th, 2005 at 10:51 pm
Duneview….LOL…Beer on keyboard….
November 19th, 2005 at 7:38 am
Duneview: I’ll wait for the French translation.
November 19th, 2005 at 10:09 am
jeff
we dumped our landline for skype and our cell phones and live in blessed silence
almost all the calls we were getting on the landline were marketers who take advantage of the loopholes (we were on the do not call list)
http://skype.com/
we have skype in and use skype out
November 23rd, 2005 at 6:08 pm
Jeff:
Their Customer Service Representatives have beeen redeployed to working on their Corporate Social Responsibility Web Site, and are too busy to answer the phone:
http://www.limitedbrands.com/social_responsibility/values.jsp
Any idea how they got your name? I’m trying to figure out if their marketing department is bad enough to drag down the stock.
Cheers,
July 28th, 2006 at 5:25 pm
ok Bitch first off its your own damn fault that they called you. i know this because i work at limited too. And since you gave them your phone number when you were at the cash wrap at limited too you gave them permission to call you and give you USEFULL information of certain sales only to benifit you! so before you start trash talking maybe you should think about these things before you give out your phone number which might i inform you is optional. Its people like you who i hate! and Limited too dosnt care if they loose a customer because 1 out of the millions we have will make no damn differance! so shove it up your ASS! and get a fucking life bitch!
August 31st, 2006 at 3:24 pm
Wow, Stephanie is an excellent representative for the Limited Too. I get calls once a week from their automated system and I’ve never even shopped in their store. They must just buy up phone lists to call, I guess. Kind of crappy of them, don’t you think?
September 1st, 2006 at 9:52 pm
Actually..you do have to give Limited, Too your phone # at the cash wrap..that’s how they get the customers phone #..being an employee of the store for 3 years. I will say Stephanie that WAS a little embarassing and you’re supposed to be representing the store, especially by advertising you work/ed there. Anyhow, some people may give fake #’s or the girl may type in the wrong # at the cash wrap. Limited Too does NOT buy random phone lists and call people. People who actually shop at the store like this feature. However, you are NEVER required to give your phone # out..and, if you don’t like the reminders, don’t give them your phone number…simple as that.
November 22nd, 2006 at 11:40 am
I am on the National Do Not Call list. I have never shopped at Limited Too and have no interest in shopping there. I didn’t do any gift wrapping or anything like that.
Yet today I get a recorded message about some stupid sale. There is no way to tell a recording NOT to call you. There is no way to stop the recorded call with Pheloxi’s suggested intro. Recorded phone calls, especially to someone with no business relationship, are illegal and subject to $11,000 fine per incident.
This call has been reported to the FTC. If anyone else has received this type of call, use the complaint form on the National Do Not Call list website.
May 16th, 2007 at 8:33 am
You may think this is about a do not call list when in reality its about The Limited forcing customers to hand over their driver’s licenses when they do a return. The company cash register have the ability to extract your personal information from the magnetic strip on the back the license.
While I don’t have knowledge of your personal shopping habits, I would check to see if someone in your household has refunded something at one of the The Limited Brands lately.
We as consumers need to stop this by not shopping at any of The Limited Brands including Victoria Secret, until they stop this invasion of privacy.
June 4th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
I did not know that Victoria Secret was a Limited Brand-how disapointing.
I (unfortunatly) was shopping at Limited Too for my two girls, but NEVER again-the employees at the one by my house really belong at McDonalds. Very low class. I don’t trust the corporation, and the products are way over priced.
I have a blog on my HORRIBLE experience there. I have told everyone that I know not to shop there.
May 31st, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Hello to everyone who has been giving Limited Too a bad name. I am also an employee there. I apologize for other employees who have given you any reason to think that we are not highly trained. We are, we have many differnt types of store policy to follow to ensure that customers have the best experience possible.
Also, concerning returns: I understand that it may be annoying to have to give out personal information every time you return an item, but this information helps us to find people who try to cheat the system. There have been cases where people give us fake checks that bounce or have returned merchendise at differnt stores and cheated the merchandise credit system. And, many other companies also ask for a lot of information. I went into macy’s today to return something for christmas and was asked for my drivers liscense at which point the woman wrote down my addres, name, phonenumber etc. It was a bit much. But to you people who are refusing to shop at the limited brand because of returns, well go ahead and add macy’s to your list. You know, macy’s, one of the largest coorporations in america?
Anddd, to those who are upset about the phone calls. I udnerstand that getting the call must be annoying. And i know that sometimes we girls at the registers will accidently put in a wrong number so that someone may get a call by accident. But you know, you do have the option to hang up the phone right? You dont have to sit there and listen to the call.
I dont think it it fair to hold an entire coorporation accountable for one bad experience michelle. That is very imature.
June 28th, 2008 at 11:43 am
This is really late. But you guys are idiots. The Limited Corporation doesn’t own Limited Too anymore, and hasn’t for many years. Tween Brands, Inc. is who you need to be complaining about. DERRR
Oh, and I used to work for Limited Too. YES, it is evil.
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:35 pm
I am also an employee of Limited Too and Jackie is correct, The Limited Corporation has no connections with Limited Too and hasn’t for over a decade.
As for the people throwing a fit about the useful phone calls, please feel free to never shop at our store again. It’s very frustrating to have to deal with people like you. You complain that our merchandise is too expensive and the company sends out phone calls telling you about sales and either way you’re just not happy. There is no way to please you. If you don’t want to give your phone number out simply say no when we ask for it. There is no need to bark at us and lecture us. We are just doing our job and the majority of people like getting coupons.
For the people who get these phone calls that don’t shop in the stores, your number might have been added accidently when an employee was typing in an actual customers information. There is a proactive solution to this if it bothers you so much. It actually takes less time than going on this website to blog about how much it ticks you off. All you have to do to is look up the number to your local Limited Too and ask for the “phone call removal number”.
It’s really sad that you all let something like a phone call upset you so much and waste your energy being angry over it.