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01/08/2006 12:11:50 PM · #1 |
It's election time in Canada and I just got off the phone with a PC Party telemarker. Last week I was called by a Liberal Party telemarketer.
So I tell this telemarketer that I'll be voting for whoever spends the least on telemarketing. She acknowledges and continues to ramble on.
Don't people stop & think, maybe using telemarketing will harm their cause because it annoys so many people? How the heck can telemarketing continue to be such a big business?
I haven't had Bell telephone service for ages, but through some crazy glitch they put our phone number in the latest phone book. How annoying!
It's our duty to give every telemarketer as hard a time as possible. Make fun of them, call them names, tell them their job sucks, do whatever you can to make them cry. If we all work together to make telemarketing as horrible a job as possible, turnover rates, and wages will increase. Eventually telemarketing will cease to be economic.
Who's on-side with my plan?
I HATE TELEMARKETING!
 
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01/08/2006 12:26:07 PM · #2 |
| I recieve recorded telemarketing messages from Candidates and companies selling goods and services... |
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01/08/2006 01:02:15 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by pawdrix:
I recieve recorded telemarketing messages from Candidates and companies selling goods and services... |
We get some of those too, for time-share "You've won a trip" stuff. That is a concern. If nobody can hire human telemarketers, they might just send out the recordings.
There needs to be an uprising of sorts. Unite & boycott anything that uses telemarketing!
I blame lonely seniors and mentally disturbed people for buying stuff from telemarketers.
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01/08/2006 01:17:51 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
I blame lonely seniors and mentally disturbed people for buying stuff from telemarketers. |
As a future mentally disturbed lonely senior, I object to your statement. Maybe that credit card scam seems like a good deal...ever think of that?
Anyway, in the meantime, I am on board with you. When I have the time to do it, something I enjoy is getting the telemarker to hang up on me. Basically, if you keep the on the line long enough and chew up enough of their time, they get tired of it and run off.
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01/08/2006 01:21:07 PM · #5 |
does Canada have a National Do Not Call Registry? I don't have a land linked phone and haven't ever had a problem with calls on my cell but have heard of a few people that have. I heard there is also something like this for not getting junk mail but not sure.
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01/09/2006 06:28:06 PM · #6 |
I don't think Canada has a Do Not Call Registry.
Sometimes I put on a weird accent, and/or play that I'm very hard of hearing & keep misunderstanding what the telemarketer is saying. Once I annoyed a telemarketer so much with this that he said "Goodbye" to terminate the call, but I didn't say goodbye back, and he kept saying goodbye, but I just kept rambling on. I figured he wasn't allowed to hang up until I said goodbye back, so I had some fun with it.
When call display shows an 800 877 etc number, I know it's a telemarketer. One time I started off with a thick oriental accent. It turned out the telemarketer spoke Mandarin & he called my bluff, which was pretty funny. I still didn't buy whatever it was he was selling, though.
Another time I put on some bogus act and it turned out to be my bank calling me about business... OOPS!
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01/09/2006 06:57:33 PM · #7 |
When they try to sell me something house-related, I tell them I live in a trailer (caravan, campervan, tent etc).
They are also not very keen on giving me THEIR home phone number, even when I promise sweetly to call them back really soon :-)
Good friend of mine (DPC member RayEthier) has been known to do this:
Telemarketer goes through his speech. Ray says: "Oh yes, I'd actually like to hear more about this, could you just hang on for a moment, please?"
Puts the phone down on the table or kitchen bench, starts clanging around with plates and cutlery and talks loudly about how lovely this dinner is. Strangely enough, telemarketer is no longer there when Ray goes to check on him 10 minutes later. |
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01/10/2006 11:12:41 AM · #8 |
Oh - you are all just too mean! I feel really guilty when I just hang up on them! I know it's a really cruddy job, and telemarketers must have to be really desperate for money to put up with the abuse they receive. I know I wouldn't want to do it (tried it myself, and hated it).
I think you can just tell them to please remove you from their call list, and they have to comply. Not sure if this really works though, since I don't track these types of calls to determine if the "please do not call" request was obeyed or not.
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