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Re: Durned Telemarketers!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 28 Aug 2002 07:19:06 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Maggie Cambron writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Brown writes:
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> > Ok, maybe it's just another instance of how I live some weird sort of ideal
> > world(1), but I don't suffer from this plague. My wife does get a few
> > during the day; she estimates once or twice a week, but I don't get the
> > "nightly torrent". If we didn't have 2 children, our meals would be quite
> > peaceful and uninterupted. I literally get more wrong numbers than I do
> > telemarketers. Am I really so abnormal in only receiving 2-3 calls a week
> > from people selling stuff or wanting money? What is a "nightly torrent"
> > anyway?
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> Nope, that's about what we get (and yep, it's our two kids that keep mealtime
> quite lively). I use a twist on what I learned from watching my mom deal with
> Jehovah's Witnesses who came to the door when I was a kid. She'd just matter
> of factly tell them she was Buddhist. End of subject. We have two main
> sources of the calls, and I normally just say no thanks and hang up, but when
> I'm a bit testy-- with the San Francisco Chronicle I tell them ours is an
> illiterate household so we have no need for the newspaper. With the long
> distance services I always said we are stockholders in our carrier, Worldcom
> (we *did* once own some MCI which gave me the idea), but I guess I'll have to
> think of something else now.
Long distance carriers almost never phone anymore; I suspect it's because of
my "stock answer" for them, which is "I challenge you to get me a better
long distance rate than I do right now." This gets them all fired up into
their spiel, and I listen, waiting for the "...and how much are you spending
a month on long distance?" question. They always seem so flabbergasted when
I say "about $0.50, on average. Sometimes as much as a buck or two, but
most months, nothing at all. I rarely call outside my dialing area." They
have yet to offer me a package that pays me. :)
James
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| (...) Nope, that's about what we get (and yep, it's our two kids that keep mealtime quite lively). I use a twist on what I learned from watching my mom deal with Jehovah's Witnesses who came to the door when I was a kid. She'd just matter of factly (...) (22 years ago, 28-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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