wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote:
> >
> > I hate to go off topic but there also seems to be a very
> > virulent strain of telemarketinganitus spreading throughout
> > the country. One of my credit card companies keeps calling
> > to sell me a credit report service. For some reason they
> > seem to have a problem understanding some part of "I'm not
> > interested." I know all their numbers so just kill the call
> > when I see the caller ID. But the other day I wanted to see
> > what they were pushing and I wound up just hanging up on the
> > idiot. They keep calling back. Anyhoo, I wanted to ask does
> > France have telemarketers? Seems to me the French would have
> > little tolerance for such idiocy.
>
> Sadly, the French have idiots, too, and some of them
> are telemarketers. I don't have caller ID, but there
> is the same tip-off here as there was in the US. If
> you answer and no one is there and then you hear a
> click, it's a telemarketer. what happens is that a
> machine auto-dials their list of suckers and then
> transfers it to a human being (or close approximation
> thereof) when someone answers. The pause and the click
> is the giveaway every time. So whenever I hear them
> I hang up.
Yes, the pause and click is a give-away that it is definitely a
telemarketer.
It's also a sign of a cheap telemarketing system that the company is
using. High-end systems do NOT have that tell-tale pause.
>
> It's never failed. I figure if it were really some-
> one I know calling me or someone trying to reach me
> about something important, they'd call right back.
> But no one ever calls back, so it's telemarketers.
>
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