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From: gauthier@ug.cs.dal.ca (Paul Gauthier)
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Subject: Telemarketing Experience
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Date: 18 Jan 91 20:26:10 GMT
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Living in Nova Scotia, Canada I find I'm not bothered nearly as often
as many of the posters in more populous areas of the states claim.
This evening I got a rare call from a telemarketer trying to sell me
magazine subscriptions. It opened with "You have been selected
_randomly_ to win a wonderful $30 prize ... (blah blah blah)" And then
continued through the most boring mindless drivel I have ever heard. I
let her talk for a minute since I wasn't all that busy.  Eventually I
told her I wasn't interested and she hung up.

Just for something to do I dialed my phone-number plus 1. ie, say I'm
555-1212; I called 555-1213. Sure enough, it was busy. A minute later
I called again and asked the woman who answered if she had been
bothered by a telemarker just then. She confirmed so I eplained who I
was and why I had called. She too was annoyed by the call.

I should have tried to follow this person up the exchange for some fun
 :-) This is one of the first experiences I've had with a telemarketer
who was so blatently pushing wares in so uncreative a fashion.


Paul Gauthier                                     | gauthier@ug.cs.dal.ca
President, Cerebral Computer Technologies         | tyrant@dalac.bitnet
Phone: (902)462-8217    Fax: (send email first)   | tyrant@ac.dal.ca