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"Tell me more about X" then leave the phone on the table. They take surprisingly long to hang up.
by muyuu 13y ago
"Tell me more about X" then leave the phone on the table. They take surprisingly long to hang up.
- cpeterso 13y agoI had a summer job as a telemarketer and learned some of the inside tricks. They maintain two "call back later" lists. If no one answers the phone, the number is put on a "call back next week" list. If someone answers but says they're not interested, their number is put on a "call back in six months" list. If the person is very rude, some telemarketers would put the number on the "call back next week" list just to annoy the person. So the lesson is don't be rude.
- muyuu 13y agoIt's not quite the lesson if you're making money on simply leaving the phone on the table while you go about your stuff.
- vidarh 13y agoFrankly, if someone pisses me off enough to want me to be rude to them, I'd happily continue to be rude to them every week safe in the knowledge that I will contribute to increasing their employee churn and drive up their costs accordingly.
- mistercow 13y agoYou might be able to keep them longer with a long recording of yourself saying "hmm... right... I see... wait could you repeat that, you cut out for a second... oh, I understand" and so on.