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for all you's in da U.S.A. that are tired of TELEMARKETERS, the government just set up a site to SUPPOSIDLY keep you telemarker free for 5 years. i registered just a bit ago, i'm hoping this will stop the incessant calls !!! good luck! =0) |
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the site's been busier that shit all day... haven't been able to register. but, what with all the GD loopholes it's probably not gonna be worth much a shit anyway. i'm still stoked about it though. |
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shit yeah, just saw this on fuckin Fox News. Ima be up on the motherfuck! |
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is it a big thing in america with telemarketers? cause I know many many companies in canada do theirs mostly in america, same with the surveys |
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try again, it didn't go thru the first time and when i tried again 5 minutes later went through easy!! REFLEX telemarketers are the BANE of my existance, i've had to turn my ringer off and get a visual ringer cos i can't stand the sound of a phone ringing all day and night offering me everything but the kitchen sink! dunno if it works for canadians, you can check the site and find out tho! good luck all |
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Hmmm....almost afraid to say this, but I am a telemarketeer. Hell the questions you have to ask are dumb but it pays well. |
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and in spain??? lol.... this is what happens when you live in the 3rd world |
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PETITION your government! d00d i didn't realize you had telemarketers in Spain, i thought only in da USA.......glad to see it's GLOBAL.....t hee lets kill Mr. eXX!!! ahahhahah |
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I will tell you guys something. I know it's annoying that you get called by us telemarketeers once in a while. But think of how annoying it is to us when the respondents act like stupid twats on the phone. I mean, we're just doing our work (most of the times we hate the questions we have to ask just as well as you do, and we have to ask them ALL NIGHT). Sometimes respondents can be real bitches and they sometimes are out to offend us. Many people just hang up as soon as they hear it's a telemarketeer. Such rude behaviour can get rewarded with a new phone call with one of us saying innocently: "I'm sorry, I think something went wrong with the connection." (not everyone does this though). It appears that in cases like those people often ARE able to refuse an interview in a normal manner :P |
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i'm quite tired of frequently getting anonymous calls myself. |
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you don't HAVE to do it. why not get a different job that doesn't involve irritating the general public. |
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hehehe |
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My job pays well. And I refuse adapting my choice of work to certain individuals who cannot be civil when they are not ineterested in something. |
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I don't mind chatting to these people only if I have the time, I can usually do other things such as tidy up, whilst speaking to them, on the cordless house phone. But I will be honest and say, that probably 60% of the time I'd probably say I was too busy - I'm never rude though |
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You don't mind chatting to complete strangers about windows and other house hold crap? Jesus! You and your friend, the 'cordless house phone' 8 ) |
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Only joking Chris...don't start going all silly on me again. |
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i liked SEINFELD's reply to a telemarketer, and should i answer on accident a call i think i'll try it out. oh hi, what's your name.......hey can you give me your home number....i'm kinda busy right now and can't talk.....i'll give you a call when YOU get home......NO you don't want me to call you at home, ok then, NOW you know how i feel. thats a loose quote! =0) |
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Dont provoke me then, and we can remain civil. :) |
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You don't mind chatting to complete strangers about... Well, the vet is a stranger to you as well, still you show him/her your STD. Only joking Jivv ;) :P |
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can we bestest friends soon.... I'm not evil! I was only being silly. I had a telemarketing call this morning but I just put the phone down, my answering machine gets filled with that crap saying they're going to ring me later, it's really annoying... |
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"Bestest Friendships" are earnt....time will tell! :) |
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I've known my vet for 30 years (dog years) she's a really sweet old lady, I remember one time I had to go there because my paw was a little sore, my owner lifted me into my vets arms and she looked at my paw holding it really gently and looked into my eyes.......she said 'I'm going to have to put him down!' My owner, shocked yelled 'What? what's a matter with him?'.....She said I was really too heavy and she had to put me on the floor.... |
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*slap* stay on topic!! BAN telelmarketers.........ahahhahahhah they fill my answering machine too =/ i REALLY hope this makes a difference! |
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my reply is typically that I'm leaving the country for a few years. I'll say that I'm moving to India, and they don't have credit cards there. That ends the conversation pretty quick. More often than not I get well wishes for a nice trip I'm not going to take :) |
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another time, he gets called by a telemarketeer.. "am I interested in double glazing? yes, I am" *hangs up the phone* also, quoted quite loosely.. |
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hehehe |
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well, I actually think its pretty rude for companies like these to call people up without knowing whether they want that or not. (then again, I never just hang up, just say I'm not interested.) |
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i screen i let the answering machine to pick up all the time i dont care! |
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The problem I have is that most of the time saying "No, thank you, I'm not interested" doesn't work against these people. I usually end up having to hang up on them, and I don't like doing it, but I didn't ask them to call me and waste my time in the first place. |
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scum of the earth. most of the time they dont even get my name right, and if i wanted to buy something i'd f**king well go and buy it wouldnt i? i don't need some halfwit trying to sell me something when i have other more important things to deal with. you lot put up with shit and theres no need. i hope they all get bannished to the far corners of the galaxy. |
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I like when people I don't know call me. feels like an adventure. If it's a survey I'm on. If they try to sell me something I'm still not buying it... Adventures spices up everyday life. |
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But we're already in a far corner of the galaxy. Banish them to the centre where the giant black hole lives. That's what I say! Look how I spelled centre! I'm so euro, or something. |
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FINALLY got my confirmation emails and everything seems good to go till 2008! i'm interested to see how much this REALLY helps, but anything is better than the 5 or so i get each day! |
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5 each day?!?!? Damn, America is more fucked up than Holland when it comes to telemarketing... |
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holy crap! |
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some leave 2 minute or LONGER messages and fill my machine.....it's close to harrassment.....they sell ALL kinds of stuff to stop telemarketers in the stores here. i have a feeling it's a more serious problem than europe. i didn't think it existed in europe till you mentioned it yesterday. i guess cos while i've visited, i've never been in someones home, so i have no idea how many calls the typical european gets! |
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I actually got a call this morning....something about what radio stations I like best. But since I never listen to the radio I couldn't answer their questions (otherwise I would've). When you talk about telemarketeers, do you mean the people that want to sell you stuff or the people who do market research (just asking questions)? Cos I agree with you that those tele sales are indeed awful, but what I do is just market research. |
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Telemarketers are just that, telephone marketers. looking to sell you stuff, a "free" trip, new credit card, whatever and ever. Survey calls are ok, and I usually try to take the time if it is somewhat interesting. Blind calls over the phone to sell you something you don't need though...........THE WORST! |
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TELEMARKETERS = TELE SALES (i never get someone doing ACTUAL market research) i had one this morning too.....Dial America which sells overpriced Calling Cards.....1st one of the day, not the last but it's saturday so maybe i'll get lucky! |
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Are you not gonna kill Mr. eXX then?? |
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I like messing with the callers heads . If they want me to buy something i say i want some more time to think about it and ask them to call me again next week. I do that for ALOT of weeks til they give up hahaahaha! wasting THEYRE TIME more then mine =) Most amusing . |
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wasting THEYRE TIME more then mine =) doesn't really matter if you get paid per hour :P |
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Yeah but listening to them trying to dissquise the fact that they are very irritaded with me is prizeless =) $$$ |
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so you do actual RESEARCH calls? what kind of research if it's not too personal a question. i still don't like strangers calling me, for whatever reason, but at least you're not TRYING to sell overpriced items, so i'll call my GUMBA's (i can say this cos i'm italian) back and cancel the fish in your mail box......ehehhehehe |
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All kinds of stuff really. Magazines, softdrinks, insurances, mobile phones. They're mostly questions about the image of a product or company and questions about what can be improved about a certain product. These questions can bge really vague/dumb at times but at least it's better than selling stuff on the phone. This is the company I work for: |
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*About all kinds of stuff people use.... |
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meh, i think telemarketers are about as rude as pop-up ads when you're using a web browser. it's the right of a capitalist system to milk what they can, and how they do it is up to them - within legal loopholes of course ;) of course, i do agree that being offensively and ostentatiously rude to the caller is not such a polite thing to do - but whenever they call me, i just say 'no im not interested. bye' that's all. that's not rude, that's just to the point. you can't love everyone's job and vice versa. also, avoid doing the obvious shit, like giving away your phone number in forms that aren't important. try to place your phone number as unlisted, even if you have to pay a small fee per month. |
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sometimes I put the phone down on my desk, and do other thing, like fold clothes, but I keep yelling UH HUH! OHHH GO ON and I can always hear them going......squeek squeek, can you hear me sir? I do that till they hang up |
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ohhh okies.....glad to hear your not someone selling stuff!! thats VERY different from telemarketers. *nods with jenf* i know peepz have to make a living......but bothering people who consider their home a sancutary from the world is just not the way to go. i don't answer my phone, ringer is turned off.....sadly tho i miss REAL peoples calls and it's irritating to people who have to get a hold of me, but i'd rather that then hear the phone ring 20 times while i'm in the shower, only to get out and find out it's someone SELLING crap! has anyone else signed up for this in the USA? |
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hahahhaha! good one! |
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