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Termyn8or -> RE: Best Way to Mess with Telemarketers (8/23/2011 3:11:02 PM)
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I think what alot of people do not understand is that these calls can wreck your phone number. When you have friends and family all over the country you can't just change your number every month, plus it costs money. It's impractical to call everyone you know to give them your new number, and just not answering unfamiliar numbers doesn't work because then they can't call you to give you their new number should they move or something.
Because of shit like this I can't use MY phone number for business. Same with spammail. I got rebates online ONE TIME and it wrecked my favoite email address (Zzactly, with noi numbers after it). I think it should be a capital crime to call someone you don't know to sell them something unless they have somehow expressed interest. Or even email.
Look, these people call from anywhere anyway, so it's simple, give all poll takers one area code and all cold callers another area code. But see that's a solution that would work so it will never happen. Of course you know if it comes from an 800, 866 area code. And if it comes in unknown you know damn well it's been CID spoofed so you don't want to deal with them anyway. Just like the ones that come in 000-000-0000.
It is my right to get rude, even nasty or vile with ANYONE who calls me, known or unknown. I have mellowed over the years and found some ways to avoid that because I actually met a telemarketer once. Yup, sitting here right in mt house. She told me they expected some people to get nasty and that was part of the job. For a time I WANTED to make them miserable so they would find another job and then telemarketing companies would have trouble finding help.
But there are other ways than to get nasty with the caller and I found one that works really well. It'll get you blacklisted, you don't need a fucking national do not call registry, you'll get on their private one !
What you do is if you are eating of course continue to eat, noisily if you prefer, but you must go on doing what you're doing. Even if you are bullshitting with a bunch of people. Be nice. Talk with them, of course with many interruptions. Be sold. Tell them their product is the best fucking thing since salted butter, and how you have found that unsalted butter does not keep as long. It's healthier if you use alot of butter but it won't keep all that long. I freeze mine if I buy it, which is usually for kash, because then I salt the butter myself with twenty buck a pound sea salt. I also use expensive imported paprika.
But their product, oh yeah, that sounds great, where does that come from ? How can you give me such a deal on it ? Great. Hey, can you also get me ___________ and ___________. They'll have to ask someone probably, bugging the manager. But yes I would love to have that. Price ? Oh boy, that sound very reasonable, yes, I think I want that.
Keep them on the phone for a fucking hour and when it's time for the CC numbers to come out, either they ain't any good or you can't find the card or your dog just got loose, so they have to hang on. Leave them hang on for as long as possible. If you need to use the phone, just hang up but if you don't...............
Modern boiler rooms log the calls, many probably record them but at the very least they have a log of how long the call took and how much money it brought in. If it brought in nothing it is divide by zero. If the call takes a fucking hour it is divide alot more by zero. They will take you off the list themself. The problem is when they go out of business your number goes back on the list which then gets sold.
The best bet really is to just get an old style answering machine and screen your calls, but if you live in a big house that is not always practical, what you gonna wire it up to a PA system or something ? Seems to me there should be a technological solution to this.
T^T
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