When Changhua County Councilor Lai Ching-mei (賴清美) arrived home on Friday last week, she was surprised to see her living room littered with faxes she had received advertising a store that sells fax machine paper in Greater Taichung.
“The 3-to-4m long roll of fax paper I had in my fax machine had all been used up,” she said.
She said when she called the number on the advertisement, accusing the company of forcing a sale on her, the store’s reply was: “If you don’t like it, then we won’t fax you anymore.”
Photo: Tang Shih-ming, Taipei Times
Lai said she suspected that the store — in an attempt to sell its product — may have called a random number and exhausted her supply of fax paper within an hour to get her to buy their product.
Lai said she wanted an answer from the store’s owner and had left her number with the store, but she had not received any reply.
She added that she suspected she is not the only victim.
“I am not ruling out suing them if only to prevent someone else from being the victim of their hard-sell tactics,” she said.
Asked to comment on Lai’s complaint, police said that although the store had exhausted Lai’s supply of fax paper, it did not damage her fax machine. As such, Lai might be able to seek compensation in a civil lawsuit, but a criminal lawsuit would be harder to pursue.
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