1-800-555-tell

[djking]

how do they stay in business and pay the bills? no marketing that i could see/hear

 

[wilheim]

Just guessing but they may use incoming phone numbers for telemarketing later. Selling the the numbers to sportbooks or tout services.



wil.

 

[JohnnyDetroit+]

My favorite tale involing that line was last season at the Lions game I needed to check some scores. Considering the beer was building in my system, I could kill two birds with one stone.


Make my way to the bathroom, go in a stall and just before I cover the phone and yell "sports", the guy in the stall next to me yells "sports", "scores".....Even though I did not know this guy pissing in the stall next to me, at that moment I felt a bond like no other.

I no longer use the 800-TELL anymore, because the new Sprint Media Phones. Pay the $4.99 and get the ESPN Bottom Line. Real time scores, who has the ball, etc. Amazing....

 

[JohnnyDetroit+]

The worst is when you would call and the guy doing the sports would shout "I am taking the weekend off!"

For advertising, never thought of that. Since they have everything from horoscopes to sport scores, they could profile you and the # you call from and sell the information. Oh well, it is worth it......

 

[tatehill2000]

LOLOL J.D. thats a great bathroom story,,, LOL,,,,, that wasent me in the stall,,,, but it could of been,,,, LOLOL

tater

 

[joegaffney]

fuuny stuff guys, I'm also amazed how quick they update it

 

[Fishhead]

Lol!

 

[golfingarkansas]

Must Be My Arkansas Accent! When I Say Baseball It Comes Back Nba

I Have To Do It Several Times To Get Baseball!



Ga

 

[sherman]

they do update it pretty quickly.....

i played black jack on there yesterday if u can believe that! stupidest thing i ever did.....

 

[PoundFoolish]

Looks like this thread from 2005. I know 13 yrs ago but my goodness, seems like it would have been 100 years ago with what they are talking about.

 

[sunshine11]

Im not familiar with it. Does it still work? Bumping a 13 year old thread. Lmao

 

[PoundFoolish]

Im not familiar with it. Does it still work? Bumping a 13 year old thread. Lmao

I have no clue, I did not try. I searched it because someone on TV was talking about it as I was on the forum.

 

[EveryGamblersDream]

No longer works as it just rings busy.

 

[CoolBreeze22]

I can't tell you how many times I called that number from the bathroom at work while I was working nights. Degenerates gotta Degen.

 

[tatehill2000]

I can't tell you how many times I called that number from the bathroom at work while I was working nights. Degenerates gotta Degen.

This ^^^^^^^^^^^
And on a date, and in the hospital, and at a funeral, and at church, and at a Bris...

Lol

 

[dnf0027]

LOL used to be your only out before internet on all phones so easy.

I would say "Baseball".. Phone service would be like.."OK TENNIS".... lol

 

[DNoonan]

Called this number so many times...!

 

[tatehill2000]

Called this number so many times...!

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pager+pho...t/images/thumbs/0000317_alpha-elite-pager.png


HAHAHA,, then there was this!!! lol

and yes i did pay the 299 fee for the pager +++ LIFETIME sports scores,, lol

I put a battery in it 7 years ago, and it did WORK!! hahahahaha

 

[HarryCaray]

Amazing how drastically smartphones have transformed everything.

 

[EveryGamblersDream]

I did a Google search to read about Tell Me. The number was discontinued in 2012. The original company was purchased for hundreds of millions of dollars by Microsoft at one point. A company going by 24x7 has a successor number to Tell Me even though it was not widely advertised as it was used as a way to demonstrate its services to potential clients versus being used like the 800 # was. However it does work as I just called it. The number is
[h=2]408-752-8052[/h]