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Being the owner of a telemarketing firm, I would like to thank all of you for providing me with a lot of training material for my next group of trainees......J/K please don't shoot.
I get very few calls at home as I am on the do not call list and never give out that number to any one but family and friends. The few I do get I tell them I am on the do not call list and remove me from your list and then hang up. I had one tell me they were a survey and it didn't apply to them, I told them to remove me any way and hung up.
At my office they do not care what you say, they will call right back as soon as you hang up. We have had them call back to back on every number we have. It's enough to drive you crazy.
I came up with a plan.
I told the girls that from now on when a telemarketer calls they need to speak to Susie Carpenter, tell them to hold on and she will be right with them, put them on hold and forget them for about 5 minutes. They are never there when you go back to that line. We now have them calling asking to speak to Susie Carpenter. I do not know where Susie actually works but, she is doing a wonderful job for us. The name was just pulled out of the air, I do not know anyone by that name in real life.
It may not be the most effective way, but it is fun to have a little payback.
ck
I get very few calls at home as I am on the do not call list and never give out that number to any one but family and friends. The few I do get I tell them I am on the do not call list and remove me from your list and then hang up. I had one tell me they were a survey and it didn't apply to them, I told them to remove me any way and hung up.
At my office they do not care what you say, they will call right back as soon as you hang up. We have had them call back to back on every number we have. It's enough to drive you crazy.
I came up with a plan.
I told the girls that from now on when a telemarketer calls they need to speak to Susie Carpenter, tell them to hold on and she will be right with them, put them on hold and forget them for about 5 minutes. They are never there when you go back to that line. We now have them calling asking to speak to Susie Carpenter. I do not know where Susie actually works but, she is doing a wonderful job for us. The name was just pulled out of the air, I do not know anyone by that name in real life.
It may not be the most effective way, but it is fun to have a little payback.
ck
My friend you to start by saying that the caller would be charged $3.99 per minute, and thanks for having called his phone sex line.
Then he goes on with his sexy talk, and if its a guy calling he pretends he is gay, and its a gay phone sex line.
He does not generally get call backs, and can hear the caller trying desperatley to get off the phone.
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From: Scio, OR
The do not call list is definitely a god send but there are exceptions that allow some telemarketers to get around it. From the do not call web page...
BUT. Most people don't know that even before the do not call registry, all companies that use phone lists to call people were required to maintain do not call lists. Prior to the registry, whenever I would receive a call from a telemarketer, a charity or a surveyor, I would simply interrupt them right off and tell them to put me on their do not call list. They are and always have been required by law to do so. Long before the national registry, I had telemarketing calls down to near zero by just saying "put me on your do not call list" consistently.
No. Placing your number on the National Do Not Call Registry will stop most telemarketing calls, but not all. Because of limitations in the jurisdiction of the FTC and FCC, calls from or on behalf of political organizations, charities, and telephone surveyors would still be permitted, as would calls from companies with which you have an existing business relationship, or those to whom you’ve provided express agreement in writing to receive their calls.
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