Telemarketing Trick

[Gemini Cricket]

[Originally posted by justagrrl on MP 4/1/2003 1:39pm] If you really want to fight the fight with the telemarketers it is so easy and so gratifying to do. When they call, simply say "hold on please" and set the phone down and walk away. When you hear the loud "EHHH EHHH EHHH" noise you know you can hang up. It costs the company money for the phone bill and to pay the employee and you get to know you actively doing something each and every time.

http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/show...36&postcount=4
I found the original post I was thinking of which is the same idea mhrc4 had (which I initially missed...)
So it was a post by justagrrl in a thread started by HBTiggerFan.

Anyway, you get the idea...


And, by the way, I am at a job where I telemarket members of the aquarium for fund raising purposes. I have no qualms whatsoever with this trick. However, these members sign up to be called (and some hate it), imagine not signing up for anything and getting someone calling you ad naseum.