double-glazing selling is a standard joke in UK for the persistent telephone calls, and the peculiar pricing strategies. What professions fill this role in your country?
Telemarketers are what we call them in US ... marketing a product by telephone calls.
Arrrgh! And they always used to call at dinnertime ... many states have passed laws forbidding the calls betweeen 6 and 8 p.m.
Evidently enough politicians were annoyed by the calls to take action!
The worst for me are the telemarketers trying to sell me an alternate telephone service! I tell them I have stock in AT&T and will stay with MaBell ... (actually it's just two shares but they don't know that!)
Next come the calls selling Vinyl house siding ... I say thanks but the area I live in has a covenant against using siding! That stops 'em in their tracks. (That it happens to be true is a bonus!)
In US you can tell telemarketers to take your name off the call list and also not to share with others ... they have to stop for a year! (or so I understand ... Sparteye or other lawyers aBoard have more info?)
Anyone care to share their "go away" answers to telemarketing calls?
