Ever get a telemarketer that’s so stubborn you find yourself liking them… just a tiny bit? I kept getting calls from these people yesterday, “getting out the vote” for Jeff Greene. I say “kept” because at one point, it was a call every 30 minutes. Solution: I turned the phone on and let Mr. Tenacious listen to a 505 watt sound system pump out heavy metal and Modern Warfare multiplayer.
For 45 minutes.
Less than 20 minutes after I hung up, he called back.
I am… impressed. He is either determined as all get-out, or he’s a slacker with the same taste in music and games. Either way… he did better than the last phone hack who caught me in the middle of a match…
(By the way, this tradition started back when Opposing Force was new. PC Magazine would never call me or send me a renewal letter after that… I had to call them.)
Linoge
10 Aug 10 at 5:07 PM
We ended up with a landline from Charter simply because it was free, and in-state calls are likewise free (and thus a better alternative than our cell phones).
The ringer stays off. We never answer it. And it gets probably five phone calls a day… to a number we have never given to anyone. Gotta love modern telemarketers.
Dixie
11 Aug 10 at 1:30 AM
Robodialers for the win…