Author Topic: 'Do not call' Participants Screwed (Read 1596 times)

icemaw · « **Reply #15 on:** September 24, 2003, 04:27:02 PM »

lets make a list here. When a telemarketer calls you write down their phone number post it here. Then we can decide on a day and call them )(*^()*&%^$#%^#@^%$ suckers over and over and over and over. Put them out of buisness for a day. I wont even answer the phone anymore. I get no less than 10 calls a night from them rat bastages.

capt. apathy · « **Reply #16 on:** September 24, 2003, 04:36:28 PM »

when telemarketers call, if you have the time, try to keep them on the line as long as possable. they make their money playing the percentages (x sales for every y calls), most people will hang up right away if they aren't buying, so marketers can get 4 or 5 calls every minute.

if you keep them on the line for 1/2 an hour you probably cost them 150 calls (10 minutes is my personal best, but the wife is awsome, she kept MCI on the line for almost 45 minutes)

it's bussiness and bussiness is all about profit, when they realize it's unprofitable to call you the calls will stop.

BTw- on a simular note. junk mail. my wife takes those postage paid return envelopes, fills it with everything included in the mailing(even the original envelope) writes on it that she doesn't feel it's her responsability to throw away their junk, so she's returning it. and sends it back.

AKIron · « **Reply #17 on:** September 24, 2003, 04:39:53 PM »

My telemarketer calls dropped by at least 90% when I added "privacy manager". It blocks all calls that aren't id'd. It allows anyone to get through if they're willing to record their name and I want to talk to them.

rpm · « **Reply #18 on:** September 24, 2003, 05:09:37 PM »

Yeah, I have Anonymous Call Rejection on my phone. Cuts about 99% of the telemarketers out.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #19 on:** September 24, 2003, 05:16:35 PM »

It is really easy to stop them.

You know the sound you get when you dial a number that is not in service? Record it, put it in the leader of your incoming message. It stops them cold.
The systems they use hear that sound and drop your number from their list so it will not be called again.

We were getting up to 30 calls a day! I did that on our answering machine and we have not gotten a call in months.

mietla · « **Reply #20 on:** September 24, 2003, 05:21:36 PM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
It is really easy to stop them.

You know the sound you get when you dial a number that is not in service? Record it, put it in the leader of your incoming message. It stops them cold.
The systems they use hear that sound and drop your number from their list so it will not be called again.

We were getting up to 30 calls a day! I did that on our answering machine and we have not gotten a call in months.

can you post an wmv of this sound?

Trell · « **Reply #21 on:** September 24, 2003, 05:22:41 PM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy

You know the sound you get when you dial a number that is not in service? Record it, put it in the leader of your incoming message. It stops them cold.
The systems they use hear that sound and drop your number from their list so it will not be called again.

the only problem with this is now alot of the dialers they use insted of just taking them off the list will automaticly kick the call to a rep
to "make sure" that it is a real sit tone.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #22 on:** September 24, 2003, 05:27:23 PM »

I'll have to dig it up again. It's buried on my system at home somehere.

Trell, you know the long pause you get when these nutjobs call? If the tones play during that pause, the call will drop immediately. I have not seen it fail.

Nilsen · « **Reply #23 on:** September 24, 2003, 05:29:38 PM »

We can just register on a list and never get bothered by telemarketing people. Used to get several every week, now I get none.

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #24 on:** September 24, 2003, 05:30:19 PM »

How many small businesses, and mom and pop stores, have the man power to setup a telemarketing center? I'd venture somewhere between a couple to none.

Congress has the ability to vote on this and continue the DNC list, with 50 million+ people behind it... I'd hope this would be a non issue.

Telemarketers must die, they are the root of all evil, the product of Hitler and Stalin, victory for mankind requires death to the telemarketer.
-SW

Trell · « **Reply #25 on:** September 24, 2003, 05:33:32 PM »

but i also know for a fact that some call centers have set it to not listen to the sit tone.

if they find an answer machine it will mark it as an answering machine or a sit tone, it will mark these. and after 3 third time it calls this number over the course or hours or days. it will switch to a rep to make sure that it is a sit tone. or just a trick.

Nilsen · « **Reply #26 on:** September 24, 2003, 05:34:29 PM »

Here i Norway telemarketing services are done by a few big companys that sell their services to other small and big companys.
Very few if any do the telemarketing service themselves.

Dunno how this is done in the US tho.

Sandman · « **Reply #27 on:** September 24, 2003, 05:36:30 PM »

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Originally posted by mietla
can you post an wmv of this sound?

sit.wav

Trell · « **Reply #28 on:** September 24, 2003, 05:40:13 PM »

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Originally posted by AKS\/\/ulfe
How many small businesses, and mom and pop stores, have the man power to setup a telemarketing center? I'd venture somewhere between a couple to none.

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no those mom and pop stores are the ones who open up there local phone book and just start dialing.
they are the ones who will get hurt becasue they dont have the money to invest in a dialer that is allways updated with the current do not call list.

it will be hurting the local guys that do snow plowing and roof work. the guys that run a couple man team where there kid is helping them out by calling when he is after school.

mietla · « **Reply #29 on:** September 24, 2003, 05:41:15 PM »

cool, thanks Sandman.