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October 31, 2002

Telemarketing Hell!

This article compares big telcos to arms merchants in a war between telemarketers and subscribers. Playing both sides of the field to profit as much as possible.

Telemarketers make 104 million calls, PER DAY! So what do we do? Legislate of course! Its terrible that everything in America comes to this. Big business takes advantage of the system until they leave no other choice but for the people to demand legislation. Alternatives?

Best quotes.
"If Terminix were to throw termites on my foundation, then bang on my door saying 'Hey, you've got termites, we can get rid of them,' the attorney general would be all over them," Bulmash said. "The phone companies are doing the same thing."
"The growth in these infernal human-pestering machines is based on the unjust economics that telemarketers don't pay for wasting your time,"
"A firm with just four callers and eight phone lines can use MarkeTel's $13,500 predictive dialer and pitch products to 72,000 people a month, Laudinsky says."

Posted by wonko at October 31, 2002 12:42 AM

Comments

For over 9 years I've been called nearly every day by an automated one particular telemarketing company, this despite calling them back and asking to be taken off their list, even changing my number doesn't help. In fact changing it, simply makes it worse for awhile. There's no justice! This same telemarketer sometimes repeatedly thru out the day, and's getting past my phone zapper as well!

Posted by: sthopper at November 10, 2003 06:27 PM

There's no justice anymore. What is our govenment doing with our tax dollars, busy making them less valuable and requiring more of them. The Country's falling apart.

Posted by: sthopper at November 10, 2003 06:31 PM

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