[BC] Telemarketing calls...

[Burt I. Weiner]

I'm on the Do Not Call List.  I still get a few calls but not like I 
used to.  The following method has reduced the amount of calls even 
further.  I've been told, and it seems to be true, that if you become 
belligerent and demand to talk to a supervisor your number will most 
likely get removed mainly because you are a "hostile caller".  I 
remain polite but get very aggressive.  My daughter worked for a 
telemarketing boiler shoppe once and also suggested this method.

Another really annoying form of telemarketing call is the political 
recorded messages that have become so common around an 
election.  I've made it very clear that I will vote against whoever, 
whatever this call is promoting.  My attitude is: If I'm on the Do 
Not Call List it should be obvious that I do not want to be 
telemarketed and that includes political "information".  If a 
politician calls me it's very obvious to me that he/she/whatever has 
no respect for my request or privacy.

Don't get me started, but...

Burt

At 07:22 PM 7/1/2006, you wrote:
>From: "Glen Kippel" <glen.kippel at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [BC] Do not call list
>To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
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>On 6/30/06, WFIFeng at aol.com <WFIFeng at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > I absolutely *despise* telemarketing calls, and I
> > pity the poor souls who have to work in those places.
>
>
>
>-----------------
>
>OK, since Miss Manners is not on this list, I will have to ask the rest of
>you -- which is more polite:  to say
>
>1. "Thank you, I'm not interested" and hang up, leaving the telemarketer to
>go on with the next call, which may be productive, or
>
>2:  String them along, feigning interest, until you finally lose interest in
>the game and tell them to buzz off, or
>
>3.  Say, "Excuse me for a moment," put them on hold and go do something
>else.
>
>IMWTK

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