[Off Topic] Toner

Since we are on the - off topic - what about the people sending free magazines. I get at least 5 a day. And they have one quick questions which has 50 parts to the
questions - Do you recommend, specify or buy one of the following? These people drive me crazy. I like Wayne's idea - I am going to try that one.

Dina

"Winter, Patrick" wrote:

> I must be on there speed dial right after you.
> Don't forget the ones that are not selling but doing survey's as well.
> I have found, "I'm not interested. (Click)" or "Let me save us both time.
> (Click)" works best.
> I'm thinking of adding to our main numbers automated attendant, "For
> telemarketing press 9.", response of "Loser! (Click)".
>
> Patrick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Anderson [mailto:tanderson@...]
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 11:07 AM
> To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
> Subject: [Vantage] [Off Topic] Toner
>
> Ok, this is way off topic but things have been a tad slow of late so ...
>
> In the last 4 weeks I have received about 10 calls a week, on average, from
> companies selling off-brand toner cartridges. This is a definite increase
> from the one call every other day I used to get.
>
> All of these companies claim double or triple the life of a standard
> cartridge because they cram twice as much toner into their cartridges ...
> etc.
>
> I swear they are all using the same script to read from ... Hello Mr.
> Anderson ... Gee, you are a hard guy to get a hold of ... You MUST be a very
> busy person ... We know you will love our cartridges ... Is it ok for us to
> send you a dozen for you to try ... If you don't like them we will be HAPPY
> to take them back ... Blah, Blah, Blah ...
>
> Ugh
>
> Is it really possible that 20 different companies are using the exact same
> script or this just one bunch of tele-marketers changing their name every
> week ?
>
> Some days I hang up on them immediately and some days I let them babble for
> 10 minutes while I work on something else and then I hang up on them.
>
> Is anyone else suffering from the same plague ?
>
> On the other hand I will say that the callers selling baby wipes for
> cleaning CRT's seem to finally be dying off after the boom times of the
> mid-90's. I can't say I'll miss that bunch much. They always started with
> "Mr. Anderson, we are pleased to let you know that since you have been such
> a great customer in the past that we are going to be sending you a brand new
> clock radio for your desk. Along with that we would like to send you a
> re-fill order of 1 gross of baby wipes for cleaning your CRT's .... "
> Sometimes, you just have to laugh ...
>
> Todd Anderson
>
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