Does wank + telemarketing = phone sex?
Oh, customers_suck, you bastion of wank.

shadowsync posts a potentially wanky list of things to do when a telemarketer calls (how to get them to stop calling you the polite way, but phrased badly).

Of course, it's customers_suck. Are they going to let them live it down?

Not if they can help it!

Be sure to look out for

tigerwolf's comment about his newly-purchased airhorn (second page), and

susano_otter's comment about how telemarketing is equivalent to selling yourself (second linked thread, last comment).

And, of course, there's a condensed version of the stupid on stupid_free.

Telemarketing: only the strong survive.

ETA: Fixed to include link to original post.

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threegoldfish
2007-01-20 02:07 am UTC (link)

Not exactly and not until very recently (less than five years, I think.) There is a national do-not-call registry, but it doesn't apply to nonprofits and anyone with whom you have a "business relationship". So, for example, my local paper with which I have a Sunday only subscription can still call me 12hundred times to try and sell me the rest of the week for only 77¢!!! even though I'm on the registry.

Telemarkers however are, by law, not allowed to call cellphones. Every so often an email will make the circuit about how Congress is passing a bill that will allow them to call (which of course cost the callee money) and every person over 30 in my office freaks out until I link them to Snopes. Heh.

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	(Anonymous) 2007-01-20 03:43 am UTC (link)
	Wait, you have to pay when someone calls your cellphone? 0.o (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

threegoldfish
2007-01-20 03:57 am UTC (link)

In the sense that I get charged minutes for all times my phone is in use, incoming or outgoing calls. So a telemarketer calling me is using up my minutes. Marketing text messages actually do cost me money because I don't have any on my cellphone plan. I get charged for each incoming text. Landlines are different in that the person placing hte call is the one getting charged (except in the case of 1-800 number obviously) so it doesn't cost you any money to be annoyed.

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	tronella 2007-01-20 12:36 pm UTC (link)
	I see, thanks for the explanation. :) (Reply to this)(Parent)

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