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Scott in Aztlan wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 01:41:19 -0000, kenny@panix.com (Kenneth Crudup) wrote:
> 
> >Ya know?! I wonder what kinds of folks are out there who will come up
> >with Mitty-style "retributions" in their heads, but are too meek to
> >just hang up the damn phone.
> 
> I don't know about the retributions part, but I do know that the telemarketing
> industry exists SOLELY because of people who are too meek or too polite to hang
> up on a pushy telemarketer. These people actually BUY something just so they can
> end the conversation in a standard fashion.

Then those are the people we need to find and kill.  Isn't somebody
working on this?

> On those rare occasions when I don't let the answering machine screen the call,
> as soon as I hear that telltale dead silence after my "hello" that receiver is
> going down. Or, if the human manages to come on quickly enough, as soon as I
> determine it's a telemarketing call, I interrupt their scripted spiel by saying
> "Not interested, thanks" loud enough to break their stride and then I
> immediately hang up - I don't wait for them to acknowledge or say goodbye or
> anything. As the receiver is going down, I usually hear a snippet of the
> telemarketer's response; sometimes it's "OK, then, thank you for your time" but
> more often it's "but don't you want to save money?" or even an uninterrupted
> continuation of their script (i.e. they just keep talking, pretending not to
> have heard me).

Whenever I hear "Is this Mr. or Mrs. Ashley?" I say "Please put us on your
do-not-call list and don't call us again"<click>.  Sometimes I say "Wait a
minute..." and lay the phone down, but hardly ever.  In general, if I
don't recognize the voice it's a telemarketer.

> The telemarketing industry is all up in arms over these Do-Not-Call lists,
> filing lawsuits and such, but they're just wasting their time. The generation
> that will sit there politely and listen to a sales pitch from some smarmy
> salesman and then buy the product just to avoid having to be rude is dying out,
> and the telemarketers' profitability is dying with them.
> 
> It's only a matter of time. ;)

Then maybe we don't have to hunt them down.

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Cheers,
Bev   
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