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>Subject: Re: Raven's Rant
>From: ravenraingoddess@aol.com  (RavenRainGoddess)
>Date: 5/6/2003 11:11 AM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <20030506111135.25412.00000807@mb-m23.aol.com>
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>>From: conurebird1@aol.com  (Conurebird1)
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>>>I am tired of these telemarketers!!  I really am!
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>  Ohhhhh - good one Russ!  I too HATE telemarketers.  Someone emailed me
>once the way to get rid of them, put them out of business.  It makes a lot of
>sense to me, so I'll pass it on to all of you.
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>Basically, telemarketers HAVE to make so many calls per hour, day, etc. in
>order to make their quota of sales.  So, if they can't make as many calls,
>they
>can't stay in business, right?  Therefore, if you slow the telemarketer down,
>the company paying the telemarketer loses money, and will soon realize that
>telemarketing is NOT profitable.  The suggestion put forth in the email is to
>simply say, hold on a moment, please.... sit the phone down & walk away.
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>Then, they will wait at least a minute or so before hanging up on you.  If
>everyone would do this, we could SERIOUSLY mess up their numbers.
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>Also - if you get one of those idiotic tape recordings, DON'T HANG UP.  The
>computer dialing the numbers isn't actually trying to sell you anything.  Its
>job is to record the time of day that you answered the phone, so that an
>actual
>person can call at the same time another day & catch you at home.  What I
>heard
>(not sure if this is right, but why not try it?) is that by hitting the #
>sign
>6-8 times, it messes up the computer, as it doesn't "understand" that input. 
>It will then "decide" that the number is wrong, and drop you from the list.
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>Feel free to pass this on :)
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>Good advice.   They are truly an annoyance. I will do that next time.

Thanks.  I am not as good a "ranter" as you tho!!
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