May 25, 2005Telemarketing Lists ...What’s up with the telemarketing business? In the space of three hours this morning, I got no less than six telemarketing calls. Five of those calls were for refi or home equity loan offers. The sixth was for a credit card. Maybe it’s partially my fault … Problem is, I can see the telemarketers out of one eye, but not the other. While I have Caller ID on my home office line (it's provided free-of-charge with my VOIP plan, as it is with most), I don't have it on the house line (my local phone company kindly charges seven bucks per month for the service). Idiot that I am, I pick up all of the calls that come into the house ... just in case it might be an important call. More often then not, those calls I signed up for the federal government's Do Not Call program ages ago. While I can't say that it hasn't done a bit of good, it didn't seem to do much to keep the telemarketers at bay this morning. Although I've never bought anything from an outbound telemarketer's call, I do acknowledge their right (and their need) to exist. I only wish they would honor that darn Do Not Call list. I have empathy for the folks that man those lines. But the purveyors of telemarketing lists? Fughettaboutit! VOIP's killer app to come: the intelligent virtual phone butler ... Press: |
