[Sca-cooks] Re: Lands (OT).

[Tara]

Ooh, that's a fun one.  Do you know they're legally obligated to call no
earlier than 8 or 9 am?  (I can't remember which.)  If it were me, I'd
very carefully take down their name and the name of the company, note
the time, note the time in their office just for reference, and then
carefully explain to them that they will be hearing from your lawyer.  I
probably wouldn't go that far unless I knew a laywer who'd do it for me
gratis just for fun (which I do,) but you could still get the company
shaking in it's boots.

I don't promote abusing phone soliciters.  They're generally poorly paid
schmucks in a crappy job.  But, this isn't abusing the soliciter - it's
passing the abuse on to her company, who deserves it for not passing on
the correct information to her.  Actually, they deserve to be abused
just for being a telemarketing company, but that's another story...

-Magdalena

Ruth Frey wrote:
>
>         A fun regional misconception I've encountered
> frequently involves Americans' total unfamiliarity with
> the abbreviations of state names.
>         I live in Idaho, abbreviated ID.  It seems like
> half the phone solicitation services based on the East Coast
> think that means Indiana.  As a result, I've gotten
> advertising phone calls at 6 am local time (the northern
> half of Idaho is on Pacific Time)!  When you complain to
> these people about calling so early, they will actually
> start arguing with you and declaring that they're calling
> up at 8 or 9 am (depending on how off base they are).
> Some of them will even argue with you about what state
> you're living in (like I wouldn't know!).
>         This has happened to me more than once, and to at
> least a couple of my friends.  Sheesh.  Nothing like
> waking up to a phone call at an ungodly hour, answering
> it with the expectation of some terrible family emergency...
> and then getting a credit card sales pitch.
>
>                 -- Ruth