1-900-9099-CRY

  Ok today I thought I would write about a 1-900 number commercial. Back in the 1980s and early 1990s there were tons of ads on TV for 1-900 numbers. Practically every celebrity that was popular back then had their own 1-900 hotline. Then there was the random 1-900 numbers for stupid crap such as Creep Phone and yes, a Santa Claus hotline. But no 1-900 number has to be stupider than this one I am writing about today.

 

The Number shown in the video is different because it might be an earlier version of the number.

  If you are wondering if there really was such a thing as a 1-900 number for crying, you'll be shocked to find out that it really did exist. 1-900-9099-CRY was the hotline you would call to make you cry. Ok let's get this thing straight, the only thing you'll be crying about is how much you were charged for calling this 1-900 number on your phone bill. That's right you had to pay a whopping $2 for the first minute and $0.45 for each additional minute. Geez it sounds like a scam right? It in fact is a scam because when you called 1-900-9099-CRY you got a prerecorded sob story that would supposedly make you cry when you listened to it.
  Now if you called this number, you needed to get your head examined. This was a total waste of $2. Who called things like this? I don't even want to know who did call these stupid gimmick hotlines because they are total idiots who did call them. As PT Barnum once said, There's a Sucker born every minute.