1) If you call and they are interested, by all means call back.
2) If you call back and they have changed their mind, do not call back.
3) If you call back again and they ask to be put on your Do Not Call list, comply.
4) If you don’t comply, and call them back again and they yell at you and again demand to be put on their Do Not Call list, better do it this time.
5) If you don’t comply again, and call them back again, and they scream at you and threaten to call the police, DO NOT CALL BACK EIGHT MORE TIMES AND BE VULGAR WITH THEM.
Unfortunately, the company I got to deal with this evening did not offer remedial telemarketing to their callers. So I had the pleasure of calling the local police and having them deal with the company. The constable in charge of this was very helpful, called me back quickly, found the company’s phone number (which had been obscured from *69), talked to a manager, and said the manager she talked to assured her it should not happen again… but if it does, to call her back to escalate the issue.
Fine and dandy, but we’ve already told these folks not to call… and they’ve called back 10 times. From my research, that should be ten $15,000 fines.
Fuck you, Toronto-based duct cleaning company. You’ve gone from irritant to target.
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Jason // August 15, 2008 at 10:00 am |
The best way to get rid of a telemarketer is to provide an objection that can’t possibly be overcome. Selling a Newspaper? Sorry I’m blind. Selling duct cleaning? Sorry I have hot water heating. etc.
Also, I switched to a voip/pbx system where callers have to dial an extension to make an actual phone ring. No marketers have made it through.
Carol Goodson // March 16, 2009 at 1:29 pm |
Have you ever heard the CD by Tom Mabe, Revenge on the Telemarketers? Get it… you will cry laughing. I am on all the Do-Not-Call lists, so I hardly ever get one… but I’m dying to try some of his ideas.