Damn telemearketers!

[AUMM]

<< How is it bogus and unrealistic? I mean, sure you have to know the basics of the law and what to say to the telemarketer, but it totally works believe me. Try it sometime....ask for the person's full name who is calling you, the address of the company, inform them of the federal laws regarding unsolicited calls.....they will rattle off a quick "we acknowledge your request and will add you to our no-call list, sir" message and then hang the hell up.
Also, it's a $10,000 fine if they don't maintain the list...even better. They even have to mail you a copy of their list policy upon request. They really don't want to talk to you any more after you start asking them all these questions. Just keep a log of calls and your requests and then start nailing them if they are stupid enough to call back. It's not a perfect law, I admit (a perfect law would outlaw telemarketers completely), but it's better than nothing. Plus it's actually kind of fun to listen to them squirm on the other end of the phone when you start reciting the laws and fines to them. >>



its definetly unrealistic. when i worked, if someone started telling me about laws and what not i could care less, when i schedule teh computer to call them again its not me thats gonna be calling them back, itll be one of the other hudreds of employees.

 

[Fausto]

<< its definetly unrealistic. when i worked, if someone started telling me about laws and what not i could care less, when i schedule teh computer to call them again its not me thats gonna be calling them back, itll be one of the other hudreds of employees >>



I don't know how long ago you worked in telemarketing, but nowadays they have obviously been prepped to expect some to request to be added to the no-call list. They will immediately go into a prepared spiel about how long it takes to be added to the list, a reference number for the request, and various names/numbers at their Co to contact if need be. It doesn't matter who at the company makes the mistake of calling you back after you ask not to be called, you can still sue the company. Read the laws and regs I linked...they're pretty clear on this.

I bought a house about 1.5 years ago and was getting inundated with calls every night (home purchases can be easily looked up here in GA) for home equity line of credit offers, phone service, etc. I finally learned about the no-call list about 2 months ago and now rarely (if ever) get calls from telemarketers.

Fausto

 

[911paramedic]

We have a huge telemarketing outfit here in Las Vegas. I run calls there all the time for employees having panic and anxiety attacks, its pretty sad. They are in this huge open room with little tiny cubicals as far as the eye can see. The source of the anxiety must be someone on the other end quoting the law to them, he he...

 

[bugsysiegel]

<< should have told him that the car -in-ski guy was in the freezer >>





lol, cool.

 

[walkur]

There really is a lot of telemarketing in the US.
I work for a survey company (we don't sell anything by phone) in the Netherlands, but we do surveys all over the world. For a normal consumer survey we need approx 100 numbers for 1 succesful call, which is the highest rate of all the countries we call. The main reason people refuse to cooperate is because they think we sell something.

I think we have no-call lists for at least 10 countries now