Friday, April 3, 2009
Oops. Wrong number. Typo leads customers to sex line.
Posted by Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:06 PM
I wonder how many people stayed on the line.
An Oregon company has ordered new packaging for its Peace Cereal after a typo on the box sent callers to a phone sex line instead of the cereal maker's 800 number. Instead of reaching Golden Temple of Oregon, callers were greeted by a recorded voice asking, "Do you love sex? ... Isn't that why you called?"
Read the rest of this Charlotte Observer blurb here.
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