The sad truth is, telemarketing works. It's hard to believe people actually BUY stuff this way, but they do. So much in fact that the telemarketers don't care about any fines - if they ever DO get fined. Just a cost of doing business.
Many of them are also outside the US and can't be touched.
There's just no way to stop it...
OTHER than making it NOT work in the first place.
What I like to do is just take the calls, get through the robotic stuff, wait for a real person to come on - and talk to them as long as I can. It's a colossal waste of my time, but a BIGGER waste of theirs. If I'm just sitting at my desk anyways typing away, it doesn't cost me anything.
And it makes me feel better knowing I'm making the telemarketer less efficient. Making it tougher for them to stay in business.
If everybody did this - these guys would all be out of business in no time.
I highly recommend it - it can be VERY satisfying. It's the only real retribution you can get.
I had the "we see you have a virus on your pc" guys on the line for two hours. :) I got "escalated" several times.
I kept pretending to type into my pc what they were telling me to type, and I'd play along for a bit - then 10 minutes in, they'd ask what's on my screen now expecting a certain form or whatever and I'd tell them "ok, I did that ... and now I see yesterdaystractors.com"... Their heads would explode - going through all the steps again.
It was fun.
The final guy was SCREAMING at me "I KNOW your LYING - Why are you LYING to me". I loved it. Loved having a telemarketer get )#$(*# off!!! Sorry, I'm not lying, let's try it ONE more time... 10 minutes later OK - I think it worked, I'm not seeing the tractor site this time... I have something new - I see caseIHparts.com :)
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