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Next time you get an annoying telemarketing call, say to the person:

"Sorry I cant speak right now, but if you give me your home telephone number, I will call you later about 8pm to talk. Is that ok?"
 


junglepocket said:
Next time you get an annoying telemarketing call, say to the person:

"Sorry I cant speak right now, but if you give me your home telephone number, I will call you later about 8pm to talk. Is that ok?"
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that's cute- however when you get 4-5 calls a day from this illegal voicecasting bullshit on both home/cell/office phone it starts to get REAL annoying.
 
By default I just hang up, however when I am feeling playful I go with:

"Excuse me but I was right in the middle of jerking off...hmmmmm...if you don't mind holding on...pfoooh...hahhhh'll be finishing up shortly..."
 
actually it seems it has nothing to do with AM. apparently shitloads of people have been getting these calls this is spam to everyone on the phone. i was listening to the radio yesterday and the DJ's were saying they were having the same problem and over 300,000 complaints have been made about it. And the AG is gonna come down hard on them.
 
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I'd just like to say I haven't received a single spam call on my cell phone and have had cells for over 4 years. These telemarketers sure love the US.
 
My roommate still works at one of these call centers, he says they scrap the numbers from the internet and any other source they can. They don't give a shit about the do-not call list or any rules about that. The policy is you can't give out any company info or have the customer speak to anyone but yourself. My roommate really needs the work but definitely doesn't like the job, he gives out the real info to people every so often that he feels sorry for.

The place is called Auto One Warranty and is in Irvine, CA. It shows up on google complete with the reviews about it being a scam. He says the warranty they sell nets about 1k in profit per sale and they have 120 reps calling all day, they generate 80-120 sales a day on average. The pay is $10 an hour and a 10-25 bonus for a sale. The owner has an exocit car collection and drives a different one to work each day.

The first thing I think about when I hear this is DAMN that's a low converstion rate. I wonder how much more money the guy could make if they split tested and optimized the sales script.
 
Some telemarketer just called to tell me that one of her marketing partners liked my business so much, they decided to enroll me into a free 14-day trial of some rewards program that includes $40 in free vouchers!

Awesome

"so who are your marketing partners?"

-"For your privacy, I cannot reveal that"

"great, so why am I enrolled in this again?"

-"You're not enrolled. You've been signed up for a 14-day trial because you bought something from one of our marketing partners and they liked it so much that ...."

-"Can we verify your address is ..."

"No, I don't wants. Please .."

She hung up. Apparently it's from http://www.qualityresources.com/
from # 866-379-2003


i will be pissed if they charge me for anything
 
it doesnt matter anymore if you give your number out or not. What happens is you remember those privat calls you get where noone answers what those are is auto dialers which dial numbers at random to see if anyone answers or not and if you answer then your number gets put in the answer column. Simple as that!
 
phone scrapers, auto-dialers, manual commission based call centers off-shore that show up as a local area code... went through years of this shite until I finally managed to do two things that have now minimized this crap on my business line and celly (both numbers really old)...

1. Each time you get a call, ask immediately if the call is being recorded, and to be removed from the calling list. If it's automated, wait a bit, it will prompt you with what to do in order to remove yourself, or to press #x to connect to someone and ask to be removed.

2. Your phone company may or may not offer this, once I did this 90% of the rest stopped - Private caller blocking - If someone calls you from 'unknown, private, scrambled #'s, etc. they will be prompted to type in the phone # they are calling from before it will connect them. << I think for legal reasons the telemarketers use these as supression lists or high risk, and don't fuss with them. Most of them operate on scramblers or localized fake/unused #'s and my guess is once they see that your number pulls up verification procedures it deters them.

Also - the donotcall.gov list site that acts as a national suppression list is a good way to minimize TM calls, add all your numbers, verify, and that's it...

I still get the odd one here and there, but the above worked well - Use to get up to xx some days - it does drive you bonkers after a while.
 
shawns said:
Some telemarketer just called to tell me that one of her marketing partners liked my business so much, they decided to enroll me into a free 14-day trial of some rewards program that includes $40 in free vouchers!

Awesome

"so who are your marketing partners?"

-"For your privacy, I cannot reveal that"

"great, so why am I enrolled in this again?"

-"You're not enrolled. You've been signed up for a 14-day trial because you bought something from one of our marketing partners and they liked it so much that ...."

-"Can we verify your address is ..."

"No, I don't wants. Please .."

She hung up. Apparently it's from http://www.qualityresources.com/
from # 866-379-2003


i will be pissed if they charge me for anything
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That's weird, because I got a call from an 866 number. It was 866-458-0266. It was a recorded message, not a real person. I forget exactly what they said, but it was something about renewing something for my car and this was the last chance or something. I have a feeling they mentioned $60. Idk, I hung up soon as I didn't recognize any of it and it was a recorded message.

Hopefully I dont get charged either haha
 
miketpowell said:
My roommate still works at one of these call centers, he says they scrap the numbers from the internet and any other source they can. They don't give a shit about the do-not call list or any rules about that. The policy is you can't give out any company info or have the customer speak to anyone but yourself. My roommate really needs the work but definitely doesn't like the job, he gives out the real info to people every so often that he feels sorry for.

The place is called Auto One Warranty and is in Irvine, CA. It shows up on google complete with the reviews about it being a scam. He says the warranty they sell nets about 1k in profit per sale and they have 120 reps calling all day, they generate 80-120 sales a day on average. The pay is $10 an hour and a 10-25 bonus for a sale. The owner has an exocit car collection and drives a different one to work each day.

The first thing I think about when I hear this is DAMN that's a low converstion rate. I wonder how much more money the guy could make if they split tested and optimized the sales script.
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is his first name (owners) 'Steve?'

I wouldn't be surprised if he's into auto warranty these days too if so...
 
If it's the car warranty robocall people (i.e. just a recording on the line, not a person), they didn't get your number from anywhere. Currently there's some company doing this via straight up calling every number in an area code -- they ignore the do-not-call list, etc. They've ignored a subpoena about it, and are under investigation by the FTC and Congress. The BBB's received over 140,000 complaints about them.

Given the way they're totally ignoring the DNC list and a subpoena, I'm guessing this is a take-the-money-and-run-to-a-non-extradition-country scam.
 
zorba said:
If it's the car warranty robocall people (i.e. just a recording on the line, not a person), they didn't get your number from anywhere. Currently there's some company doing this via straight up calling every number in an area code -- they ignore the do-not-call list, etc. They've ignored a subpoena about it, and are under investigation by the FTC and Congress. The BBB's received over 140,000 complaints about them.

Given the way they're totally ignoring the DNC list and a subpoena, I'm guessing this is a take-the-money-and-run-to-a-non-extradition-country scam.
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Yeah that sounds familiar. I think thats what it was, car warranty. I was listening and was like, "wtf? car warranty?"
 
Man I've gotten the same exact shit, and I am like you - didn't give my number out anywhere except my domain registrars and ad networks...
 
Its been a while since those warranties called my cell.

The past 3 days I received two calls about health insurance. $99 for your whole family

1(866)489-5687
1(800)977-9554
 
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