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Not this guy.

Hey these were their theories, not mine. I never saw an advantage in keeping them on the phone at all. In fact during my brief stint the longer I kept someone on the phone the more irate they got and the LESS likely it seemed they would buy. Some of them I figured would cancel the subscription they currently had just to get back at us.

It definately wasn't a job you could do very long if you have an ounce of humanity in you. All the people I made upset for such a lousy paycheck, jeeesh, there was no way I was going to continue doing such a crappy job. The newpaper add said, "work in a fun atmosphere making tons of money talking on the phone". Sounded good at the time. Anytime we weren't actually talking to someone on the phone we were supposed to hoot and holler like we were at a party. That was the 'fun atmosphere' we were supposedly working in. But trust me, it wasn't fun. After getting off the phone with someone you'd just royally pissed off it didn't come natural to hoot and holler let me tell you.

What a sick concept.

I have no problem selling my soul, but yeah, I need it to be for a significant sum of money.

Oh yeah, I wouldn't lose any sleep being Andrew Dice Clay if I was getting paid like Andrew Dice Clay. But pissing people off does not come naturally to me. So doing so for $120 bucks a week didn't come close to cutting it for me. Give me $120,000 a week and I'll piss other people off all day long!

I used to politely say "no thanks" or "I'm not interested". IF they kept up the schtick - which now I can understand why they do, I would say no again and then hang up. After a while I would say no once and then hang up if they kept talking. Now, the minute I realize what type of call it is, I wait to make sure it is not something like MADD, and then just hang up without a word.

Ohhh, the irony of it. While reading this thread I get a telemarketing **recorded** call about helping me get out of debt. I think they had the volume turned up to reference levels too. This begs the question about saying "No" three times then legally they must end the call...what if it is a recorded message? how would that apply?

Those are illegal.

...unless they have a previously established business relationship.

...or are a non-profit, or political organization.

The laws are obviously more lax in Canada reg telemarketers. I get recorded calls all the time...."Important notice about your credit card....", or...."the warranty may have run out on your vehicle". I get these two recorded calls, probably 20-30 times each per year. Oh, and there's the one where I've just won a "free" cruise to the Carribean---A friends wife fell for this one years ago. They gave them a free cruise alright, but there were "service charges" ect which brought the price over and above what they could have gotten the cruise for in the first place.

I don't know about that, Adrian. Those scammers have been running in the US too, until the FTC busted their lame asses back to the stone age a few months back. It's the same recording, I'll bet.

Of course, we still get some, but not as many.