Saturday, October 14, 2006
How to respond to telemarketers
Is it just me, or has there an increase in telemarketing calls recently? Maybe I got put onto some lists by virtue of my appearance at the CRTC telemarketing proceeding last May. I don't think any new rules will help other than chasing call centre jobs out of Canada. But that decision was made in Parliament.
While I was at the gym this past week, we had some ideas about how to deal with those pesky telemarketing calls. Given that the discussion took place in a gym environment, the actual proposals have been laundered for publication.
Whenever the phone rings with 'that dead-air silence' at the other end of the phone, get ready to deliver one of the following lines as soon as the marketer comes on the line:
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While I was at the gym this past week, we had some ideas about how to deal with those pesky telemarketing calls. Given that the discussion took place in a gym environment, the actual proposals have been laundered for publication.
Whenever the phone rings with 'that dead-air silence' at the other end of the phone, get ready to deliver one of the following lines as soon as the marketer comes on the line:
- Your call may be monitored for quality assurance. Have we answered all your questions in a satisfactory manner?
- Can you speak slower? What are you wearing? Have you been naughty?
- Can you clean up blood stains? Lots and lots of blood. Carpet, walls, the trunk of my car?
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Posted by Mark Goldberg @ 10/14/2006 08:20:00 AM 
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Hi there Mark,
You are right - I too have found an increasing number of telemarketing calls. We were attributing it to a new Bell phone line. (we'd been off the Bell radar for about 7 years). The new phone line gets about 4 telemarketer calls a day. The phone is used for teleworking, and it's not the number we put on anything, or refer to. Coincidence?
;-)
Cheers,
Jules
You are right - I too have found an increasing number of telemarketing calls. We were attributing it to a new Bell phone line. (we'd been off the Bell radar for about 7 years). The new phone line gets about 4 telemarketer calls a day. The phone is used for teleworking, and it's not the number we put on anything, or refer to. Coincidence?
;-)
Cheers,
Jules
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: 7:24 AM, October 16, 2006
: 7:24 AM, October 16, 2006
check CRTC's site...telemarketer scammers are listed and pormoted by CRTC. CRTC personal are paid to look the other way. CRTC must be investigated and shut down. CRTC staff also promote pornography esp. child pornography. RCMP will not respond tot this althouh evidence has to delivered to them. Phonebusters appears to be a scam too. Check it out! File complaints to the PM.
Posted by : 12:34 PM, February 27, 2007
: 12:34 PM, February 27, 2007
check CRTC's site...telemarketer scammers are listed and pormoted by CRTC. CRTC personal are paid to look the other way. CRTC must be investigated and shut down. CRTC staff also promote pornography esp. child pornography. RCMP will not respond tot this althouh evidence has to delivered to them. Phonebusters appears to be a scam too. Check it out! File complaints to the PM.
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