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- From: lpj@col.hp.com (Laura Johnson)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: The other side of the coin (Re: Revenge on a Telemarketer - the Sequel (Long Post))
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.162232.27809@col.hp.com>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 16:22:32 GMT
- Article-I.D.: col.1992Nov6.162232.27809
- References: <l^#@byu.edu>
- Sender: news@col.hp.com (Usenet News)
- Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division
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- $stephan@sasb (Stephan Fassmann, Software) writes:
- > In article <1992Oct30.152504.22444@col.hp.com> lpj@col.hp.com (Laura Johnson) writes:
- > >From: lpj@col.hp.com (Laura Johnson)
- > >Subject: Re: Revenge on a Telemarketer - the Sequel (Long Post)
- > >Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 15:25:04 GMT
- > >J.T._August@ultramac.uucp writes:
- > >> Once, I received a call from a telemarketer selling aluminum siding. I told
- > >> her "You don't do your homework, do you?" "What do you mean?" "Your calling a
- > >> brick home." "Oh, well sir, we offer siding geared especially towards brick .
- > >> . . . "
- > >>
- > >> She just didn't get it.
- > >>
- > >> John August
- > >> starsabre@oui
- > >>
- > >
- > >If they did their homework, they wouldn't be all the time calling renters.
- > >--
- > >Laura Johnson
- > >lpj@hpctdls.col.hp.com
- > >Opinions expressed are my own, but may be licensed for a nominal fee.
- >
- > I just found this group and went through some of the messages about the
- > telemarketers at random and I saw none stating the telemarketers side. Maybe
-
- > ....
-
- > and they don't even know who you are, or why you hurt them. If you what them
- > stopped sue the companies, hurting someone who is trying to survive is mean,
- > and un-Christian. Maybe this will cause you to think about the other side of
- > the coin before you do something uncharitible.
- >
- > _____________________________________________________________________
-
- I don't know why you singled out my posting for this response. I certainly
- wasn't advocating hurting telemarketers. Nor do I blame the individual
- caller for making nonsensical calls, like trying to sell siding to a renter;
- it's the company, or the arm of the company that makes up the list of
- phone numbers, that ought to do that homework. (Not only to avoid annoying
- me, the renter, but to save their employees the trouble of making useless
- calls, and to save themselves the cost of having the employee do so.)
-
- By the way, although I have no interest in "doing something uncharitable" (and
- don't know why you thought I would), I also have no interest in behaving in
- a Christian fashion as I am not Christian (and don't know why you thought
- I was).
-
- --
- Laura Johnson
- lpj@hpctdls.col.hp.com
- Opinions expressed are my own, but may be licensed for a nominal fee.
-