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I love Telemarketers
- Thread starter ebay6988
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Originally posted by imagineer99
It's so easy to avoid telemarketers...
There is always like that five second pause that results before they come on the other line as a result to the automatic dialer.
I just hang-up before they even get a chance to speak.
We've been known to do that too, but there is still the disruption of getting up to answer the stupid thing if the cordless does not happen to be in the same room you are. And you know, the few times we've said "Forget it, it's just a telemarketer," it's ended up being family members with important news! :brick:
Our friends' system displays the caller id right on the TV screen, which is nice. If they could upgrade that to beam it onto the toilet, the computer screen, and the backyard, we'd be set! *thumbs*
phlydude
Well-Known Member
Originally posted by Erika
I WAS nice... until we put our names on the Do Not Call list and certain companies chose to bother us anyway. I thought having our names on the list would be a good indicator to these people that they weren't going to get any business from us. I guess some people just never back down. Buuuuuuut, we're down from 8-10 calls a night to 2-4, not counting the ones that show up on our caller ID from the daytime while we're at work. So most companies have honored our wishes
Anyway, enough with my rambling. Good luck with your job! :wave: What kinds of businesses do you call?
Little tip for anyone who is on the Do Not Call list:
If a company has an existing business realtionship with you (you have a credit card or the phone company calls you) they are EXEMPT from following the Do Not Call list. Also charities and politicians can call you all they want.
Take it from me, I worked in the industry for over 10 years. The only way to get your name taken off the lists is:
1 - call your bank(s) and utilities and tell them you no longer wish to be marketed
2 - when telemarketers call you, tell them you are on the Do Not Call and that you want to be removed immediately. Be Nice about it though because the "McLabor" could care less if they pi$$ you off, they'll leave you on for laughs if you're mean to them.
phlydude
Well-Known Member
Most telemarketing companies (at least the legit ones) are hired by the companies you pay money to each month to market new products to their customers. It's call CRM (Customer Relationship Management). Their goal is to maximize the relationship that they have with their customers (that means take as much money as they can) by offering you products you don't want or need.
Don't be mad at the telemarketers, be mad at the credit card companies, banks and phone companies. They are the ones trying to take your money.
In the beginning when I started in this field, it was more respectable but alot of companies have jumped on board and ruined it.
If you think about it, it's not much different than the door-to-door salesman that put his foot in the door to prevent you from shutting it. Except you have the power to hang-up and request not to be called from your "existing relationship partners".
imagineer99
New Member
Is Telemarketing really profitable?
I doubt anybody would purchase whatever they are soliciting. Not to mention the fact that the company has to pay money to employ the people giving the calls.
It seems like it would not be cost effective...
I doubt anybody would purchase whatever they are soliciting. Not to mention the fact that the company has to pay money to employ the people giving the calls.
It seems like it would not be cost effective...
JET12monorail
New Member
It seems to me that everyone in this thread agrees that you wil never be able to completely avoid telemarketing in the U.S. right? If you can't beat 'em -- Join 'em!
What I mean is--- Being the manager of a form of telemarketing in a car dealership, I know what telemarketers hate THE most.
THEY HATE TO BE SOLD!!!!!
Make up some lame product and try to sell it to the next telemarketer that calls your home. I promise they'll hang up the phone, complain to all of the other telemarketers in the room for at least an hour that some jerk tried to sell them something over the phone, and not make any other calls for the day. They may even quit---OH NO!
Have FUN!
stitch rocks
New Member
grrr... i dislike telemarketers... you think that do not call list works... well it doesn't very well... esp on campus... i get telemarketing calls up the wang... and each time i say no... they keep talking... do they not know what the word no means?
i was going to be a telemarketer over the summer... but i didn't do it... guys be proud!
i was going to be a telemarketer over the summer... but i didn't do it... guys be proud!
DDuckFan130
Well-Known Member
Really? They offered that kind of job to me too for the summer with this company called Vector...is it the same one? They did this last summer too and I believe they do this with a lot of college students because I guess they figure we're desperate :lol:. Oh well, my job as a substitute teacher is helping me just fine
stitch rocks
New Member
Originally posted by DDuckFan130
Really? They offered that kind of job to me too for the summer with this company called Vector...is it the same one? They did this last summer too and I believe they do this with a lot of college students because I guess they figure we're desperate :lol:. Oh well, my job as a substitute teacher is helping me just fine
vector... i don't like them... my friend works for them.. they are not really telemarketers since they call ppl to show them their knives... verctor is also known as cutco.... so with vector u have to go to ppls houses and try to sell them extreamly expencive knives... it is mostly college students.. the advertize so much its crazy...
Pioneer Hall
Well-Known Member
Once and only once did we get something from Telemarketers...
Sheraton called us to come view a time share near Disney for 4 nights. Those 4 nights would cost us 169 dollars if we go to their 90-minute speech on why to buy. We won't buy the time share, but we'll get 4 nights in WDW at a large villa for 169 dollars (and we are going around new years time).
Other than that...I can't stand telemarketers.
Sheraton called us to come view a time share near Disney for 4 nights. Those 4 nights would cost us 169 dollars if we go to their 90-minute speech on why to buy. We won't buy the time share, but we'll get 4 nights in WDW at a large villa for 169 dollars (and we are going around new years time).
Other than that...I can't stand telemarketers.
lamarvenoy
New Member
My only real complaint-Do not call list means DO NOT CALL.STOP CALLING ME.:brick:
WDWSwashbuckler
New Member
Originally posted by DDuckFan130
Really? They offered that kind of job to me too for the summer with this company called Vector...is it the same one? They did this last summer too and I believe they do this with a lot of college students because I guess they figure we're desperate :lol:. Oh well, my job as a substitute teacher is helping me just fine
Ha ha, I got offered the same job at the beginning of the school year. I politely turned them down... (smart, eh?)
stitch rocks
New Member
whats sad is that i still am getting those flyers in the mail, on my car, handed to me when i am going to class... vector never leaves me alone!!!!!!!