How does 1-800-555-TELL make any money?

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How do they make any money? They don't even have advertising on it. I mean I'm glad it's free because I call at least 50 times a day to check scores of games I have money on while out on the road. But they gotta be burning tons of money providing this service. I remember back in the 80s when Sports Illustrated first came out with a scores update phone number and it was huge deal. But it was a 900# so they were making money. I got in trouble with my parents because I used to call 100s of times.... but only for 1 min because it was 1 cent first minute. They thought it was a porn line and grounded me. hahahaha.
 

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They will be selling your name and number to anyone who has anything to do with gambling. Change your #. Good Luck
 

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i've used this service countless number of times before i got a sports pager, but I guess I was lucky since I didn't get placed on any call lists
 

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call lists eh ? Guess thats why I get so much sports betting telemarketers calling my cell phone
 

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Technical name is "reverse ani lookup".....simply stated, they log your phone number....
 

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bellyputter said:
They will be selling your name and number to anyone who has anything to do with gambling. Change your #. Good Luck

Ive been using that for around 4 years now and I havent got put on any lists as of yet. Why would they thing you are a gambler when sports is just one of the few things? So if youre a traveler and you want to know your traffic or weather youre gonna get a call from a seller? Then you8r wife accuses you of gambling and youre done for................:ughhh:
 

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C-LO said:
Ive been using that for around 4 years now and I havent got put on any lists as of yet. Why would they thing you are a gambler when sports is just one of the few things? So if youre a traveler and you want to know your traffic or weather youre gonna get a call from a seller? Then you8r wife accuses you of gambling and youre done for................:ughhh:

They can surely tell which services you use.
 

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i've never received any tout-like / gambling type of calls either...and i've used this service many of times.
 

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They certainly sell your phone number. I used to get tout calls the DAY AFTER I used their service
 

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haven't used it in some time, never got any calls.

There are ads, if you don't say say Sports ( or other category), to skip over them.
 

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Then you8r wife accuses you of gambling and youre done for

Unless you have a gambling problem then no man should have to marry a women like that.
 

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Use tell me all the time also, never had a call back. Thought I heard one time that AT&T was behind them so if that is the case money is not an issue. It is the best score phone by far.
 

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