Forum Post: "phone filibuster" your credit card company

Hi there, I'm writing with a suggestion for a telephone protest of credit card greed. It's based on something I do whenever I get a notice of a rate increase in the mail. When I get one of those notices, what I do is call the credit card company that sent it and I tell them I have a question about the notice, then I READ THE WHOLE THING TO THEM, then I READ MY ENTIRE CREDIT CARD BILL TO THEM. It takes forty minutes to an hour if you do it slowly and clearly. Then after reading the whole thing to them, I ask them why they are raising my interest. If they try to sell some specious solution in response, I start reading the whole thing to them again.

My impression is that they are not allowed to hang up, though they can put customers on hold. My idea is to demonstrate the potential power that customers have by having OWS get many people to do this at the same time on one day. Their lines would be jammed for the entire day. I also think we should arrange phone filibusters of predator companies that lobby congress whenever there is a filibuster in congress. Please consider my suggestion. I am soooo tired of arguing with credit card companies over the phone.