[lug] statistics of users here

Evelyn Mitchell efm at tummy.com
Tue Jan 16 14:59:10 MST 2001


You can take them to small claims court. More details can be found
www.junkbusters.com


On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 04:35:46PM -0500, Hugh Brown wrote:
> How does one go about getting the $500 from them when they are "slow" in
> adding you to their don't call lists?
> 
> Hugh
> 
> Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 09:15:57AM -0700, Carl.Wagner at Level3.com wrote:
> > >I always hang up when someone calls and wants to do any sort of survey.  I get
> > >enough
> > >junk mail as it is.
> > 
> > The correct answer is "Please put me on your do not call list".  If they
> > call you again in the next several years, you CAN get $500 from them.
> > You should have heard MCI squirm when they called Evelyn said we had
> > already asked them to put us on their list.
> > 
> > It's the only way the calls will stop.  We started doing it about 5 years
> > ago, and it's gone from getting literally 5 or more calls a week down
> > to maybe 5 calls a year.
> > 
> > Realize: The simple fact that you answer your phone is communicated among
> > telemarketers.  If you answer a call from a telemarketer at 7pm, you're
> > likely to get more calls from other telemarketers around 7pm.  Really.
> > 
> > Sean
> > --
> >  "You can tune a file-system, but you can't tune a fish."
> >                  --  Quote from tunefs(1M) man page
> > Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <jafo at tummy.com>
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> > 
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