How can I unblock a contact from MSN?

MSN Advertising Sales Contact

• Hi, I have a rather absurd problem. I have been trying to reach a live person to purchase advertising from MSN for almost 3 weeks, to no avail. I have a client who wants to immediately spend $100k to advertise with them (and only them!), but no one from MSN will call me back, and I'm starting to look bad! I need the name and phone number (not just email address, please) of a contact PERSON in MSN Advertising Sales, ideally for the West Coast, but I'd be willing to accept anyone at this point. This should *not* be the "standard contact info" from advantage.msn.com (although that may be a good place to start). By "standard contact info" I mean, nothing from http://advantage.msn.com/contactus/contactus.asp or http://advantage.msn.com/contactus/uscontacts.asp or http://advantage.msn.com/contactus/international.asp. All of those phone numbers and email addresses go to voice mail and autoresponders, respectively. I've already sent a number of emails and left voice mails without success. I've also spoken to Microsoft's main switchboard and the folks at BCentral to get additional numbers -- all of them voice mail. They sure do make it hard to buy advertising from them! $100k might not be a lot for MSN, but surely there's SOMEONE on the their staff who would like to help me with this. Your help in finding that person would be much appreciated.

• Answer:

  Energy, Okay, I finally have an answer for you! After being on the phone with MSN for half the day, leaving email, and phone messages, and talking to the home office in Redmond, WA. (I think I lost money on this one :)) I FINALLY got a return phone call from a live human being that promised to answer the phone personally. He'll be in the office late tonight and all day tomorrow - presumably waiting for your phone call. :) He's in LA and I'm not sure how big his territory is. If you're not in his territory I'm sure he can pass you over. Anyway, he's alive!! Brad Cowan (310) 449-7346 He awaits!