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If I wanted to recieve telesales and telemarketing calls, how do I get my name on the list?

No, you get paid to phone up and enquire about whatever. If the person says they're not interested, they're not interested.

You don't get paid to do this:

"but seeing as she was being like that I just put her as a hang up and she would have got called back half hour later"

Heh whatever. We get paid for it, what do I care if I anoy someone.

Memo is correct.

Don't be an agitataaaarrr!

Wow, you guys are cool because you p*ss people off immeasurably.
You can talk about people being stupid all you want but at the end of the day you're the one who thinks it's "funny" to phone people up again about something they're not interested in with the sole intention of annoying them.


yeah...they're the stupid ones.

I'm only rude to telesales people on the phone if they're indian.

I had some stupid woman today

'Hello can I speak to mrs..'

'Speaking'

'Hi my names Lori I'm just calling on....'

'I'm not interested...'

Then she goes into a rant of how she gets telesales calls so much that it fills up her answerphone or something like that and how she is ex-directory so shouldn't get these calls so I explain it don't work that way then she says

'I'm going to put the phone down and walk away, that way you can't harrass other people'

heh, it don't work that way. If she had stopped for a breath I would have given her the telephone prefrence service number and taken her off our list, but seeing as she was being like that I just put her as a hang up and she would have got called back half hour later.

Chipseh gets paid to harass people!

BURRNNN!

Heh, Chipseh, if you ever have cause to phone Thomas Cook to do your research, we've made up a ficticious 'company policy' that we are not allowed to partake in market research or telephone surveys....so if you do and you get told that, please feel free to challenge whoever you're talking to ;-)

And now a view from the other side...

I work at a Market Research company. :D So, as you can imagine, I tend to phone a fair amount of people up. The majority of the work is for comapnies like Sky, RAC etc but it's always random and you never quite know what survey you're going to be in. The thing is, as it's market research, we're not effected by the Caller Preference thing, even though people seem to think we are. But, hell, I've had some fun over the last year or so I've been working there.

Firstly, people can be incredibly stupid.

"Hi, can I speak to Mr. (whatever) please"

"Yes, I'll just get him for you... Ian? IAN? MARKET RESEARCH! YES! NO! OK!... hello? Oh, sorry, he's not in at the moment."

Then there's people that try to act cool by slamming down the phone, but, erm, miss.

"Hi, I'm conducting research on behalf of Sky. Would you be..."

"NO! F*** OFF! *slam*"

These are the sort of people that I'm inclined to make an appointment (again) with. Usually in about 5 minutes, so that either me or my colleagues will ring them back up.

But, by far, the best excuse to get out of a survey EVER was one I had about 6 months ago. I had started the survey, when about 5 minutes in I get...

"Look, I'm sorry but I'm going to have to go. I'm bored, and you just interrupted me giving my husband a BJ"

I don't think anything has topped that, yet. I love people's reactions when you start the intro, and explain you're doing market research. People just *assume* you're selling something, even if you explain *5 TIMES* that you're not.

I love and hate my job in equal quantities.

We get quite a few of these. There are several solutions:

1) Hang up. A popular favourite.

2) Don't answer the phone. There are problems with this however.

3) Make some sort of joke at their expense.

4) If they ask if someone's there, say "no, I'm a burglar" and record the response.

5) Try and sell them something they don't want.

6) Get into a friendly* conversation.

*Suggestion. Replace with angry/violent