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- From: dsegelho@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Diane Segelhorst)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Revenge on a telemarketer!
- Message-ID: <26479@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 16 Oct 92 20:53:09 GMT
- References: <harris.65@ROTC.orst.edu> <1992Oct16.191535.19556@bcars6a8.bnr.ca>
- Reply-To: dsegelho@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Diane Segelhorst)
- Organization: Annapolis Detachment, CDNSWC
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- In misc.consumers, colette@bnr.ca (Colette George) writes:
- >In article <sch.719090578@gargoyle>, sch@unx.sas.com (Steve Holzworth) writes:
- >|> My best results to date have been with the following:
- >|>
- >|> (stm = scummy tele-marketer)
-
- Here's one my husband used after receiving weekly calls asking us to
- subscribe to a local newspaper, and repeatedly asking to be removed
- from their call list:
-
- STM: Hello, I'm calling from the (newspaper name). I'm calling to
- confirm that you are currently receiving our paper. (This is the tactic
- that really irritates me! They KNOW I'm not getting it)
-
- He: No, but I'm really interested! What can you tell me about it?
-
- (Conversation continues for 5 to ten minutes, until the sign up time
- comes)
-
- He: Well, I'd love to get your paper. There's one slight problem though.
- Do you have a Braille edition? You see, I'm blind.
-
- STM: (dead silence) Uh, no. I'm sorry, uh, gee, uh....
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-
- Diane Segelhorst
- dsegelho@oasys.dt.navy.mil
-