‘I'll happily take your points': Resident takes a jab at the local roofing business after getting spammed with advertising despite demanding to be on a ‘No Call List,' he settles the score by stealing their rewards points at the pump

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Mar 15, 2025 6:00 PM EDT

After spending weeks, months, or even years trying to get on a paperless documentation trail, somehow I still keep getting spam advertising in my mailbox. Despite my efforts to unsubscribe and remove myself from ad lists, the pamphlets just keep coming! Because of this, spamvertising has a bad effect on me. Although companies want to be renowned in the neighborhood, hoping for increased traffic based on notoriety, if I'm ever receiving 50 pages per month of ads from your company, be sure that I will NEVER set foot in your establishment—Just on principle. 

The guy in the next story had his fill of spamvertising and couldn't take it anymore. 

But fortunately he found a way to make all of those incessant cold calls, billboards, bench ads, and mailbox flyers worth it—by reaping their rewards. 

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  • It takes a lot of grocery shopping to earn enough points to get money back at the gas station. It seems like you could be $100s deep in grocery bills and still only see $.50 of savings on your gas. However, this guy scored a whopping $2.50 in rewards points just by being a little petty.

  • "I don't want your roof inspection, but I'll happily take your grocery points"

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  • There is a local roofing company that has a 'flood the zone' advertising policy. Flyers on mailboxes (we're in an HOA where you need to 'called in'), endless posts on Facebook groups & Nextdoor, and phone calls.
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  • Although i am on the DO NOT CALL list, I've gotten a few calls from them. I asked where they got my number as i was on the DNC list, and they hung up on me. My local grocery chain has a points
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  • system at their gas pumps. Punch in your phone number and you get .10 off a gallon of gas for each point you've earned buying groceries inside. Points expire after a month, and as i am often away from home for
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  • a few months, i have to buy lots of groceries to earn enough points to get cheaper gas. As you use the points for a gas discount, those points drain away. I often don't have enough points for
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  • the gas discount, especially when i first get back home. When i got back home 2 weeks ago, this was the case. By funny coincidence, the roofing company had called me that morning, which is when they had hung up on
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  • me. I looked back at their number and on a whim, punched it into the gas pump. Voila! I now have enough points to get the gas discount. It's only $2.50 worth of points, but they're now subsidizing my gas discount. I hate spammy advertising.
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  • Glum_Status If you are looking for some points, also try the phone number of the store that the pumps are associated with. We used to use the store's phone number to give people the discount if they didn't have a rewards card.
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  • Familiar_Raise234 If you turn them in for calling when you are on the no call list, they will get fined. You have fill out an online form.
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  • CatRiot2020 Very petty. I like it! If you want to be more petty, call your post office and tell them the company is leaving flyers on your mailbox without paying postage. "No part of a
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  • mail receptacle may be used to deliver any matter not bearing postage, including items or matter placed upon, supported by, attached to, hung from, or inserted into a mail receptacle.
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  • Familiar_Raise234 My store gives you the option of using those points for gas purchase discount or converting to $ off your grocery bill (100pts = $1.00). You might check to see if your store does the latter as well.
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  • Zealousideal_Lack936 (Area code) 555-1212. People of a certain age will know.
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  • justaman_097 Well played! It's only fair that they pay some of your gas in exchange for the inconvenience of calling you.
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  • Wieniethepooh Well, somebody gave them your phone number. If you don't use it too many places to get these kinds of discounts, it's not impossible that it was that same store that sold their customer database!
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  • EnigmaWearing Heels Report all calls at donotcall.gov 40k fine for those who ignore you're on the list. Took me 6 months of reporting every spam call and I now get zero spam calls. I was getting 12 a day.
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