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Mark Kantrowitz (mkant+@cs.cmu.edu) wrote:
: Once the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette called me two days in a row, asking
: if I wanted to subscribe. The first time had me really ticked off
: because the telemarketer didn't understand the word "no" -- I had to
: say I was not interested three times before she finally understood. So the
: second time, I decided to deliberately mishear the pitch from the new
: telemarketer: 
: MK: I don't want to subscribe to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. How much
:     is the New York Times?

   I had a very similiar thing happen to me the past couple of months.  
The Post Gazette called once day and I very politely said no thank you.  
I was polite because I have done telemarketing before and it is not an 
easy job.  The next day I got called again, this time I explained that I 
did not like the very conservative slant of the paper nor did I want my 
money indirectly going to one of the wealthiest Republicans in the 
country.  The person said thank you and waited for  me to hang up.  Two 
days later I received another call, at 8:30 in the morning, I was angry 
and asked to speak to their supervisor, they hung up.  The next day my 
roomate received a phone call again, she said no and hung up.  That was 
about two months ago.  Two weeks ago I received another call, I told the 
person I had been called too many times, I was so annoyed that I was now 
going to order the New York times because the Post Gazette was too 
conservative, and they had made me very angry.  Well the telemarketer 
proceeded to inform me that the New York Times was a socialist run 
newspaper, and ever since the 1970's they had been printing lies about 
Republicans. Then he began to tell me about a great book on JFK.  I 
laughed at him and told him to give up. Well two days ago I got a call 
form the New York Times.  I just laughed and laughed.  I have been 
cursed by the newspaper telemarketing community.  

                                               Celandine