Shrapnel64
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join:2001-01-24
Hayes, VA
 ·Verizon Online DSL
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1 edit | Wow...
Wow, what extremes will people go to, to waste other peoples time and money.
Let them call me when my mother or father dies about some credit card verification, to sell me something, or just something I don't plainly feel like listening to. I'll slap a damn lawsuit on them and they won't get a $1 fee.
It's ashamed that if you tell someone to take you off their list, or that they are now deceased that they will charge a $1 fee to the survivor (or other relative, person) to remove them.
I feel that telemarketers (90%) are a waste of time and money. If I want to buy something, or figure out if something exist, I will on a want-to-know basis search the internet for their product. If their product does not show up, then they need to reorganize their marketing strategy and quit cold-calling me on the phone during business hours or during supper!
How do you think you'd feel if someone called you during your dinner? (Pointed towards telemarketers) |
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fireflier
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join:2001-05-25
Limbo
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I read earlier the $1 charge was for "credit card verification" or confirmation or some similar BS. Funny, I've seen sites verify a credit card before without needing to put a charge on it. How about charging the $1 and then after "verification" giving it back? How many people die in the U.S. every year? Couple million at least? That's a lot of potential income.
My response to the morons the DNC doesn't cover (i.e. E.B.E., Charity, "Surveys", and Political) is a little standalone PC with answering machine software. I can blacklist CID info at will so when they call, it tells them that "your information has been blacklisted and no further calls will be accepted from you". It also handles those limbo "unknown" callers with a similar message but an option to leave a message in the event it's a legit call. If they gut the DNC, guess my AMPC will just get a little more work--and my messages will get nastier.
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BosstonesOwn
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Everett, MA
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| said by fireflier  :I read earlier the $1 charge was for "credit card verification" or confirmation or some similar BS. Funny, I've seen sites verify a credit card before without needing to put a charge on it. How about charging the $1 and then after "verification" giving it back? How many people die in the U.S. every year? Couple million at least? That's a lot of potential income. My response to the morons the DNC doesn't cover (i.e. E.B.E., Charity, "Surveys", and Political) is a little standalone PC with answering machine software. I can blacklist CID info at will so when they call, it tells them that "your information has been blacklisted and no further calls will be accepted from you". It also handles those limbo "unknown" callers with a similar message but an option to leave a message in the event it's a legit call. If they gut the DNC, guess my AMPC will just get a little more work--and my messages will get nastier. Asterix software has those options. Pretty neat system too.
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fireflier
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Limbo | OK, I'll bite. What is Asterix? |
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ropeguru
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Bridgeport, WV
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zoom314
Superman
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join:2001-04-30
Yermo, CA
| reply to Shrapnel64
It sounds like their wanting to go the Extortion Route to get their $1.00 in blood money.:D
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to Shrapnel64
said by Shrapnel64 :How do you think you'd feel if someone called you during your dinner? (Pointed towards telemarketers) I wonder if a certain BBR member, who claimed to be a telemarketer, will come grace us with her mindless rantings about how she loved to talk to people and more were happy to have her call.  :D |
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TechieZero
Tools Are Using Me
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join:2002-01-25
Wesley Chapel, FL |  reply to Shrapnel64
This is harrasment. |
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anonpronman
@69.183.x.x | reply to Shrapnel64
Telemarketing...
It should be a crime..
Many of the Potential clients or current clients are older folks. There Telemarketing Houses Pry on the older folks.
Why because they are lonely, gullible, and FULL OF CASH. |
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fireflier
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join:2001-05-25
Limbo | reply to ropeguru
Interesting. |
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Wills
join:2001-01-03
Port Charlotte, FL | reply to moonpuppy
She's obviously never called me... |
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King75
King Of All And Nothing
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Stevensville, MD
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My Grandfather has been dead for 35 years (He died in Vietnam) and he still gets credit card phone calls. He never even lived at the house my grandmother lives in now she bought it after he died. She tells them that he has been dead for 35 years and not to call back they get quiet say ok and sorry and hang up quickly it is insane. |
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