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From: ndallen@contact.uucp (Nigel Allen)
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Subject: Re: MCI as Slamming King
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Date: 25 Sep 90 23:23:00 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 682, Message 2 of 13


Some months ago, I received a call from a telemarketing company trying
to sell me an "affinity" MasterCard, endorsed by and bearing the logo
and colours of a a good cause that I support.  I decided to get the
card, and at the end of the application processor, the telemarketing
person passed me on to a woman he identified as his supervisor, who
confirmed that I indeed wanted the affinity MasterCard, and made sure
I understood how it worked.
 
Perhaps the "slamming" abuses people have described here would not
happen so often if MCI and its telemarketing contractors were required
to have requests to make MCI the 1+ carrier verified by a second
person who was paid a flat hourly or weekly wage which does not have
anything to do with sales results. This would go a long way towards
keeping telemarketers honest.
 

Nigel Allen                    telephone (416) 535-8916
52 Manchester Avenue           fax (416) 978-7552
Toronto, Ontario M6G 1V3       Canada