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02/11/2009 02:55:28 PM · #1 |
Has anyone else noticed a marked decrease in the amount of telemarketing calls?
Both at work and home. I'm almost lonely for the annoying bastards.
Have they all been laid off?
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02/11/2009 03:06:07 PM · #2 |
| Did you by any chance sign up for the no call list? Maybe your wife did and didn't tell you. |
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02/11/2009 03:09:22 PM · #3 |
I have noticed total absence of such calls (or any other calls for that matter), but that is wholly attributable that some idiot (me) managed to sever the phone lines leading into the house.
I was going to fix it, but the peace and quiet put a damper on my enthusiasm.
Ray |
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02/11/2009 03:20:55 PM · #4 |
I signed up for the no-call the day after it began (first day was so swamped the site was overwhelmed) and I'm pleasantly surprised. There are so many exemptions that I didn't think it would make much difference but now I wonder if even some of those exempt are honouring the list?
The ones I AM still getting, though, are those automated ones telling me I've won something and to call a number. |
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02/11/2009 03:37:19 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by RayEthier:
I have noticed total absence of such calls (or any other calls for that matter), but that is wholly attributable that some idiot (me) managed to sever the phone lines leading into the house.
I was going to fix it, but the peace and quiet put a damper on my enthusiasm.
Ray |
Ha! How did you manage that? |
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02/11/2009 04:11:08 PM · #6 |
I reckon you must have bribed them to come an annoy me...I have been getting heaps lately, on all my phones.....thanks a lot!!!
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02/11/2009 04:21:04 PM · #7 |
I get them from both my telephone company and my cable company, each trying to get me to switch services. I guess it's legal if it's from someone you already do business with.
The only "cold" calls I get are from some company saying "This is your credit card company -- now is your last chance to lower rates on your card". I get those calls a lot. |
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02/11/2009 04:34:51 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by BeeCee:
The ones I AM still getting, though, are those automated ones telling me I've won something and to call a number. |
I get really annoying ones telling me my warranty is about to expire on my car and thjat I need to call to get it renewed......like I'd even consider one of thjose aftermarket warranty crooks.
What a scam!
And they will NOT remove you from their list......I'm REALLY unhappy about that.....they're REALLY rude, too!
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02/11/2009 04:52:07 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
Originally posted by BeeCee:
The ones I AM still getting, though, are those automated ones telling me I've won something and to call a number. |
I get really annoying ones telling me my warranty is about to expire on my car and thjat I need to call to get it renewed......like I'd even consider one of thjose aftermarket warranty crooks.
What a scam!
And they will NOT remove you from their list......I'm REALLY unhappy about that.....they're REALLY rude, too! |
This is the only type I receive--and I haven't owned the car in question for over a year! |
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02/11/2009 07:29:27 PM · #10 |
| Blowing into the cap of a Sharpie marker makes a really loud, shrill sound. Telemarketers love it. |
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02/11/2009 07:55:36 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by David Ey:
Blowing into the cap of a Sharpie marker makes a really loud, shrill sound. Telemarketers love it. |
I keep meaning to get one of those little air horns on top of a can like they use at football games.
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02/11/2009 09:26:26 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
Originally posted by David Ey:
Blowing into the cap of a Sharpie marker makes a really loud, shrill sound. Telemarketers love it. |
I keep meaning to get one of those little air horns on top of a can like they use at football games. |
You really think damaging someone's hearing is warranted? Just get your name on the don't call list and be done with it. |
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02/11/2009 09:34:27 PM · #13 |
Not only am I getting more of them, they have been downright rude. >:(
Within three or four hours the other day, I got a call from the same company. When I told the second caller I had already received a call and told them no. Our conversation went something like this . .
TM: We are from such and such company.
K: This is the second call from you today. I told your representative earlier that I was not interested,then. I'm still not interested.
TM: Oh it is a different company.
K: It had the same name and was offering the same service.
TM: It does have the same name, but it is a different company.
K: Then your company needs to change its name.
TM: EXCUSE ME?
K: If you have a company that offers the same service as another, it really needs a different name, unless it is the same company, and I've already told you I'm not interested.
TM: You NEED TO LISTEN.
K: Excuse me?
TM: You need to listen. You requested this information, and we are following up on it.
K: I may have requested the info, but as I told you already, I'm not interested, now. And I told your coworker that earlier as well.
TM: I said you need to listen. We are a different company.
K: With the same name and same service.
TM: Yes.
K: Then, you need listen. ..
TM: (Interrupting me) NO!!!
K: I'm not interested.
(hangs up)
The next day, I get a third call. I explain that I've already told two other reps I'm not interested, and if heguy was as rude as the one yesterday, I would never be interested. He was very polite and said he would take my name off the list. :)
I really don't mind them, generally, as I realize people are just trying to earn a buck. When the third one called, if he hadn't been polite, I was going to go into the "crime scene" dialogue that someone posted on here sometime ago. |
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02/11/2009 09:44:18 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by David Ey:
Blowing into the cap of a Sharpie marker makes a really loud, shrill sound. Telemarketers love it. |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
I keep meaning to get one of those little air horns on top of a can like they use at football games. |
Originally posted by cpanaioti:
You really think damaging someone's hearing is warranted? Just get your name on the don't call list and be done with it. |
Apparently, you didn't bother to read my previous post.
One, that's not likely through the phone, and yeah, when one of these guys says "Fuck you" when I ask them, for the umpteenth time to take me off the call list, I'd love to make him miserable.
Message edited by author 2009-02-11 21:46:12.
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02/11/2009 09:55:17 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
Originally posted by David Ey:
Blowing into the cap of a Sharpie marker makes a really loud, shrill sound. Telemarketers love it. |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
I keep meaning to get one of those little air horns on top of a can like they use at football games. |
Originally posted by cpanaioti:
You really think damaging someone's hearing is warranted? Just get your name on the don't call list and be done with it. |
Apparently, you didn't bother to read my previous post.
One, that's not likely through the phone, and yeah, when one of these guys says "Fuck you" when I ask them, for the umpteenth time to take me off the call list, I'd love to make him miserable. |
Still doesn't warrant causing someone physical harm. I'm sure there's recourse for those companies who are required to maintain their own don't call list and don't comply. |
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02/11/2009 10:07:52 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by David Ey:
Blowing into the cap of a Sharpie marker makes a really loud, shrill sound. Telemarketers love it. |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
I keep meaning to get one of those little air horns on top of a can like they use at football games. |
Originally posted by cpanaioti:
You really think damaging someone's hearing is warranted? Just get your name on the don't call list and be done with it. |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
Apparently, you didn't bother to read my previous post.
One, that's not likely through the phone, and yeah, when one of these guys says "Fuck you" when I ask them, for the umpteenth time to take me off the call list, I'd love to make him miserable. |
Originally posted by cpanaioti:
Still doesn't warrant causing someone physical harm. I'm sure there's recourse for those companies who are required to maintain their own don't call list and don't comply. |
Collette, for crying out loud, get real, and pay attention.
I'm fairly certain that it's impossible to transmit a loud enough noise through the phone to hurt anyone, and do you seriously think anyone with half a brain is going to go through the dead end BS of trying to get a no-call violation enforced?
It's called RANT, and since I have about NO chance of getting these jerks off my back, and neither would I spend the time, or the money to do this, I'M JUST VENTING!!!
Let it alone!
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02/11/2009 10:15:36 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
Originally posted by David Ey:
Blowing into the cap of a Sharpie marker makes a really loud, shrill sound. Telemarketers love it. |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
I keep meaning to get one of those little air horns on top of a can like they use at football games. |
Originally posted by cpanaioti:
You really think damaging someone's hearing is warranted? Just get your name on the don't call list and be done with it. |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
Apparently, you didn't bother to read my previous post.
One, that's not likely through the phone, and yeah, when one of these guys says "Fuck you" when I ask them, for the umpteenth time to take me off the call list, I'd love to make him miserable. |
Originally posted by cpanaioti:
Still doesn't warrant causing someone physical harm. I'm sure there's recourse for those companies who are required to maintain their own don't call list and don't comply. |
Collette, for crying out loud, get real, and pay attention.
I'm fairly certain that it's impossible to transmit a loud enough noise through the phone to hurt anyone, and do you seriously think anyone with half a brain is going to go through the dead end BS of trying to get a no-call violation enforced?
It's called RANT, and since I have about NO chance of getting these jerks off my back, and neither would I spend the time, or the money to do this, I'M JUST VENTING!!!
Let it alone! |
Pay attention to what? Phones have speakers which have volume.
If you're going to call me by name at least spell it right. |
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02/11/2009 10:19:41 PM · #18 |
I just tell them to tell me all the details, and lay the phone down, go do something else for a while, and would you believe it, they are not there when I get around to hanging up.
I rarely answer the land line phone anyway. That's my wifey's domain.
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02/12/2009 01:46:32 AM · #19 |
Simple phrase that works: "This is your legal notification to remove my name & number from your list." I've dealt with 'problem' companies at work for years, as a telephone & voice mail technician.
It CAN take a couple of days for their system to update (multiple call centers, for example), but it does work.
Then again, you could just ask "Would you like fries with that?" every time they speak.
Message edited by author 2009-02-12 01:49:43.
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02/12/2009 01:50:12 AM · #20 |
Just tell them this is a business phone and they are so apologetic and can't leave quick enough...it always works...and no one gets hurt.
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02/12/2009 06:06:36 AM · #21 |
Originally posted by rossbilly:
Simple phrase that works: "This is your legal notification to remove my name & number from your list." I've dealt with 'problem' companies at work for years, as a telephone & voice mail technician.
It CAN take a couple of days for their system to update (multiple call centers, for example), but it does work.
Then again, you could just ask "Would you like fries with that?" every time they speak.
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Originally posted by Judi:
Just tell them this is a business phone and they are so apologetic and can't leave quick enough...it always works...and no one gets hurt. |
I've said everything imaginable trying to get the calls to stop. Yeah, some do, but some are as persistent as a cold sore.
It must be nice to live in a world where the jerks that do as they're supposed to, have a sense of obligation and decency, and will actually do as requested don't operate.
All of these scenarios are only for real if the telemarketers do what they're supposed to.......over the years I've had numerous companies NOT remove me from their lists, and continue to call.
Have any of you actually tried to call the annoyance bureau with your phone company to try and get them off your back?
You have to have information about who, what, when, where, the phone numbers......alll the kind of information that if you try and get, they hang up on you.
My impression of telemarketers from experience is that they're a special kind of ignorant, soulless creature that have not one shred of human decency. When I had my business, it was a real nuisance to have to stop what I was doing to answer the phone......only to have a WOMAN offer to sell me pornography magazines!!!!
There seems to be no rhyme or reason to who will call trying to offer you God knows what.
I'm sorry, but nothing I could do through a phone would bother me in the slightest for the amount of time I've lost over the years to these assholes.
You'd think if nothing else, they'd keep a master list of people who have NEVER EVER bought anything from anyone.
Oh, and Collette......if you'd get the point, I wouldn't butcher your name. Yes, phones have volume controls.....do you listen to your phone at full volume? You really think telemarketers do?
Oh, and please put me on your "Do not reply to" list........I pretty much don't care what you think about the way I vent. You never had to live with the amount of nuisance phone calls I got in the twenty years I had my business. When you have a business, you get on lists like you can't even imagine.If I had all that time back at the end of my life, I'd probably get another year.
I'm not sure why it is that that should make a difference......I guess they think you're more prone to have money to throw away.
Message edited by author 2009-02-12 06:07:18.
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02/12/2009 06:26:07 AM · #22 |
Thankfully I don't get any on my phone, but at my work, we get a lot of calls, and a solid ton of spam faxes. I get the impression that those must be unregulated - none of them have a return fax number, they all say I'd have to call an 866 number to get removed. When I looked on the Net, I found out that calling the number is pretty much worthless, as they'll keep sending them, and when you call again they tell you that you've already been removed - but the stuff never stops coming.
It annoys me that it's a waste of paper and toner that the place can't hardly afford, but there doesn't seem to be much of a recourse.
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02/12/2009 06:36:08 AM · #23 |
Originally posted by OdysseyF22:
Thankfully I don't get any on my phone, but at my work, we get a lot of calls, and a solid ton of spam faxes. I get the impression that those must be unregulated - none of them have a return fax number, they all say I'd have to call an 866 number to get removed. When I looked on the Net, I found out that calling the number is pretty much worthless, as they'll keep sending them, and when you call again they tell you that you've already been removed - but the stuff never stops coming.
It annoys me that it's a waste of paper and toner that the place can't hardly afford, but there doesn't seem to be much of a recourse. |
About the only way to get rid of them, and it's temporary at best, is to change your fax number.
A couple of friends of mine have had to do that with their businesses because they just got so deluged with SPAM faxes that they really couldn't take it any more.
Of course, it's a nuisance to have to tell your customers, but it does stop it for a little while.
It's one reason why I never used a fax at my business......if I really had to send something out, I'd scan it and e-mail it.
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02/12/2009 09:47:19 AM · #24 |
ALL of my numbers have been on the list from day one.
Originally posted by cpanaioti:
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
Originally posted by David Ey:
Blowing into the cap of a Sharpie marker makes a really loud, shrill sound. Telemarketers love it. |
I keep meaning to get one of those little air horns on top of a can like they use at football games. |
You really think damaging someone's hearing is warranted? Just get your name on the don't call list and be done with it. |
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02/16/2009 07:53:26 PM · #25 |
| Hey!!! I used to be one of those jerks.... long ago and far away.... I loved the ones who get really upset and would curse at me and blow whistles and such. I thought it was funny and no I did not suffer hearing loss...seriously though that job helped me to put food on the table and to keep a roof over my head. I was thankful to God that I had it. That being said I don't like getting those calls either but when I do I always remind myself that the person on the other end of the phone probably hates it as much as I do. Believe me it's not an easy job. |
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