WOMAN GETS CALL FROM WAYFAIR WHILE SHE’S ON THEIR WEBSITE SHOPPING

A woman named Ariel Dumas claimed on Twitter that that while she was checking out the Wayfair website, she received a phone call from a Wayfair employee. Based on what he said – “I noticed you were browsing our website” – she believes Wayfair was monitoring her activity on the website at that moment, and called her to “help” her shop. When questioned about it, Wayfair sort-of denied they do anything of the sort. A spokesperson for the company said, “We have recently tested outbound calls to a very small number – less than 1 percent – of customers to assist them in the shopping process. However, we do not make any outbound phone calls based on real-time site activity. In all cases, customers receive an introductory email from the team prior to any phone outreach.”
* The call was coming … from inside the computer!
* “By the way Ms. Dumas, I see you left your kitchen freezer door open – you’ll want to get that before you food spoils.”
* Now she’s afraid to take a bath or a shower.
* Coming next from Wayfair: If you leave their website without buying anything, they send an electric shock to your keyboard.
* Folks, run to the backyard right now, grab a shovel, and bury your phone. Throw it in a creek, a river, a ditch. Get rid of it. They’re listening. All of them. All the time.