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#34742 - 06/27/05 12:07 AM
Re: DO NOT CALL
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Registered: 12/14/04
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Loc: Chesapeake, VA
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I feel sorry for telemarketers. I'm sure they must be saddened by all the hangups and irritation they encounter and I figure they might be pretty desperate for money.
Okay, here is my sympathetic side to telemarketers. I worked one season for Lillian Vernon, and the calls for me were incoming. However, we were suppose to push this other package to our callers. I hated it!
Besides the fact that I felt the package was nothing but fraudulent. We couldn't let a caller go until we received, two confirmed no's. "I am not interested" is not considered a no. And our calls were actually recorded and then we were lectured on when our calls were not exactly to their satisfaction.
Everytime, I kept hearing a "I am not interested", deep down I was thinking. Come on, just say NO! NO! and then I can let you go so I will not get in trouble.
However, I just do not answer the phone. I figure I am making it easier for the both of us.
Bottom line, I have enough going on all the time, and I just get tired of my privacy being invaded. Not only that, the comeback questions when you are trying to be polite in saying no, is overstepping some bounds IMO.
Cheers,
Cathi
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#34746 - 06/30/05 06:12 PM
Re: DO NOT CALL
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Registered: 03/25/05
Posts: 208
Loc: Central Pennsylvania
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Originally posted by Dotsie:
Katrinka, happy to help. We don't get those text messages. We use Verizon. Do you have to pay for them?
When it was AT & T wireless, I had to. I haven't received any text messages since it became Cingular. My kids like to IM and text message their friends and vice versa, so I wanted to block that feature. I found out I have to pay a monthly fee to have that blocked. Outrageous!
Marie
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#34747 - 06/30/05 06:21 PM
Re: DO NOT CALL
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Registered: 03/25/05
Posts: 208
Loc: Central Pennsylvania
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You girls crack me up. I don't think I could be a quick enough thinker to try and sell something back to a telemarketer. Hmm. Maybe I should try it with my book. I've done the "hold on" thing and put the phone down until they eventually hang up. I agree that everyone has to make a living somehow. But I'm not sympathetic to these people because they chose to take the job. It wasn't my choice. I'm feeling cranky. Can't you tell?
Marie
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