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From: stevev@tekchips.UUCP (Steve Vegdahl)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Phone calls selling stuff
Message-ID: <289@tekchips.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 13:49:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 14 13:49:02 1985
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Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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> We were deluged 
> with calls for about a year after we bought our house.  The salesmen 
> got our name and address from the sales notice in the paper.

After we bought our first house, we were also deluged with such calls.
After what seemed like several hundred of them, I finally developed a
technique that seemed to be quite effective.  At some point very early
on in the conversation they would invariably ask me some kind of question,
to which I'd answer something to the effect, "We have all the life insurance
we need right now, thank you."  All the while, I'd have my finger in the
phone switch, and as I said the last word of my sentence (e.g.,
"you"), I would press it down.  End of conversation.

		Steve Vegdahl
		Computer Research Lab.
		Tektronix, Inc.
		Beaverton, Oregon