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No, no. It's ok. The 900 number is just to order the catalog itself. Once you get that, then you place your orders the regular way.

(Or, that's what the scumbags told themselves, I'm sure)

I think the only thing that outdoes this is the Santa Claus commercial that would play the DTMF tones for the kids who didn't know how to dial a phone. I can't find an example now, but I've seen it before, and Wikipedia has a reference to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium-rate_telephone_number#...



Haha, closest modern equivalent would be blasting "Hey Alexa, order the latest Peppa Pig Bluray!"




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