$&% magazine sales calls
$&% magazine sales calls
(OP)
I have gotten 4 calls from people asking for magazine subscriptions for someone that doesn't work here anymore and the day isn't even half over. This was a problem at the last I worked too. How bad is it for everyone else?
Can these calls really work? I'm so annoyed that I have canceled subscriptions for magazines they asked me to renew.
How can we stop this other than not answering the phone.
Can these calls really work? I'm so annoyed that I have canceled subscriptions for magazines they asked me to renew.
How can we stop this other than not answering the phone.





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I sent them an email along the lines of:
"Every month I go through this process, where I get junk from you and I put it directly into the recycle without even looking at it. It would save me time and probably save you money if we put an end to it. By the way, does qwertyuiop1234567890 mean anything to you?"
(Obviously that wasn't my code, but it worked)
- Steve
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For the letters with return envelopes...I save them, then stuff them all in a prepaid return envelope and put it in the mail. Repeat the process for each prepaid return envelope.
Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 06/08
ctopher's home (updated Apr 30, 2008)
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<<A good friend will bail you out of jail, but a true friend
will be sitting beside you saying " Damn that was fun!" - Unknown>>
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KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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<<A good friend will bail you out of jail, but a true friend
will be sitting beside you saying " Damn that was fun!" - Unknown>>
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Obviously an airhorn is a bit impractical in an office setting but I'd think there'd be a way to just send load white noise or something.
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- Steve
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Since the post office charges more we could prevent the price of stamps from going up if we all did this.
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What country by the way? I wonder if this is legal everywhere or if some places have some kind of get out clause.
KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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Getting one of these things into a Britsh post box (cylindrical, chest-high red thing with a small mouth) was a real challenge. Eventually we folded it up into a long thin snake and wrapped it in newspaper. No stamp of course, or sender ID, so there was no question of legality. It belonged to the Royal Mail and had a valid recipient's address on it.
- Steve
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my one job I had women calling the desk and asking for the engineer which last worked their. They would always hang up really fast....
I still to this day do not know why they would call.
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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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Technically they are exempt from the do not call list because someone gave them the number for something.
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Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 06/08
ctopher's home (updated Apr 30, 2008)
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They didn't even hassle me for the name of someone in software or systems to transfer the subscription too - amazing.
KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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Thank You
JSF SWISS
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- Steve
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The best way to test something is to squeeze it, slowly, until it breaks!
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I would leave it there until I would hear the loud BEEP BEEP BEEP after they have hung up.
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Genius.
Kevin
"It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class." ~Author Unknown
"If two wrongs don't make a right, try three." ~Author Unknown
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Worst job ever.
But we were legally required to remove you from our list if you ask. I would always honor that request and I knew very few people who wouldn't. You could always tell the people that had asked to be removed and weren't, and nobody likes talking to them anyways so there is no real reason for them not to remove you. My suggestion would be to simply say you are not interested and asked to be removed from their calling list like MadMango suggested. Of course some places have more than one list (we acutally had sheets of paper with phone numbers on them that we blacked out manually) so they might not catch every occurrence.