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cold callers or door-to-door salesmen?

I've had both today, so I was just wondering what everyone thinks.

Door to door. At least you can hang up on the cold callers.

cold callers or door-to-door salesmen?

I've had both today, so I was just wondering what everyone thinks.

Cold callers. I appreciate the fact that door-to-door salesmen have a more difficult/completely unrewarding job, so I don't mind them as much.

Door to door, definitely. Probably because I'd feel guilty if I shut the door in their face. Also, being stalked by the Jehovah's witnesses for a couple of years doesn't exactly improve your image of door to door salesmen.

Cold callers. They don't care if you answer the phone naked. :(

I haven't had a phone in 6 years... so I'll vote for door to door salesmen, if that includes the Jehovahs.

you can have more fun with cold callers...

Cold callers. They don't care if you answer the phone naked. :(

*ding dong*
LG: Wait! Let me take off my clothes first! :p

Cold callers.... because you can't shoot them so easily and stick their skulls on poles around your house as a warning to others.

Cold callers require far more effort to kill.

Actually before so much of my time was taken up with school I used to do psychological warfare on Jehovah's Witnesses. Door to door salesmen are run off with no mercy! I want something I'll go to the damn store and buy it myself. I accused a guy from a burgler alarm company that his company paid burglers to rob people to get business and that I was going to call the police. I answer wearing really odd outfits, AND my FBI baseball cap. That is now my favorite hat to wear when I do yardwork too. Amazing how people then leave you the fuck alone!

Cold callers.... because you can't shoot them so easily and stick their skulls on poles around your house as a warning to others.

but you can choke them with the phone cord...

but you can choke them with the phone cord...
Only if you happen to be close enough to them though...

Definately cold-callers. We don't have any door-to-door salesmen apart from the Jehovas coming round. I just don't open the door to them. The other motherfuckers always call during dinner.

Both are easy enough to deal with. It's just a matter of being direct and sticking to your convictions. Examples:

Cold Caller: "Congratulations! You have just won a..."

You: *click*

D2D salesman: "Good afternoon, I'm from the..."

You: "Go away..."

D2D: "But if you will just..."

You: "Now."

D2D: "Please, let me explain.."

You: *SLAM!*

Only if you happen to be close enough to them though...

invite them over for coffee...

Don't pick on all cold callers. :(

We have the potential to offer a very important, highly necessary service to the world. How else would casinos know whether or not they are hideously decorated and have poor food. Besides, we offer money and free food from time to time.

At least we don't know where you live. We may ask you the color of your panties over the phone, but we're not looking in your window.

Better question: Which type of people do you hate more: employed people or people who live off of your hard-earned taxes?

invite them over for coffee...
Viewing this ^ post in conjunction with the one directly following, that's starting to look like a fairly good idea.....

Don't pick on all cold callers. :(

We have the potential to offer a very important, highly necessary service to the world. How else would casinos know whether or not they are hideously decorated and have poor food. Besides, we offer money and free food from time to time.

At least we don't know where you live. We may ask you the color of your panties over the phone, but we're not looking in your window.

Better question: Which type of people do you hate more: employed people or people who live off of your hard-earned taxes?

when you say "we"...dont tell me your one of, THEM?

Cold Callers.

At least with Door-to-Door salesman, I can bring a bat to the door and pretend to be really, really violent.

With Cold Callers you hang up and they call back again 1 hour to 10 days later. And then they put your number on other lists so more cold callers can bother you.

Don't pick on all cold callers. :(

We have the potential to offer a very important, highly necessary service to the world. How else would casinos know whether or not they are hideously decorated and have poor food. Besides, we offer money and free food from time to time.

At least we don't know where you live. We may ask you the color of your panties over the phone, but we're not looking in your window.

Better question: Which type of people do you hate more: employed people or people who live off of your hard-earned taxes?

Yes, and I have the potential to find out where they are calling from and enable them to prevent sunshine from shining on their telephone. That's not likely either, so I just hang up.

Besides, at least welfare recipients are living off money that's already been stolen from me instead of trying to steal more from me.

when you say "we"...dont tell me your one of, THEM?

'Tis a job. We do "customer satisfaction surveys" here and the occasional focus group. Absolutely no selling. It doesn't save us from being verbally abused by very, very mean people though. Truth be told I really hate it, but money is money.

Oh yeah. Here's a little hint for anybody who doesn't want to be bothered by cold callers who are not affected by the Do Not Call lists here in the U.S. Say: "Please take me off your list". Anyone who is familiar with Do Not Call lists often assume that if they are on one it automatically applies to market research as well. It does not. You have to request removal from our lists. Yelling at us about how you're already on THE Do Not Call List is assinine.

'Tis a job. We do "customer satisfaction surveys" here and the occasional focus group. Absolutely no selling. It doesn't save us from being verbally abused by very, very mean people though. Truth be told I really hate it, but money is money.

Oh yeah. Here's a little hint for anybody who doesn't want to be bothered by cold callers who are not affected by the Do Not Call lists here in the U.S. Say: "Please take me off your list". Anyone who is familiar with Do Not Call lists often assume that if they are on one it automatically applies to market research as well. It does not. You have to request removal from our lists. Yelling at us about how you're already on THE Do Not Call List is assinine.

:eek: say it isnt so...

but about the lists, my phone number is unlisted. i still get them calling my house.

'Tis a job. We do "customer satisfaction surveys" here and the occasional focus group. Absolutely no selling. It doesn't save us from being verbally abused by very, very mean people though. Truth be told I really hate it, but money is money.

Oh yeah. Here's a little hint for anybody who doesn't want to be bothered by cold callers who are not affected by the Do Not Call lists here in the U.S. Say: "Please take me off your list". Anyone who is familiar with Do Not Call lists often assume that if they are on one it automatically applies to market research as well. It does not. You have to request removal from our lists. Yelling at us about how you're already on THE Do Not Call List is assinine.

Yeah, people are mean to survey people. I always try to be nice to them, but I do tend to give very odd answers to surveys, sad thing is, they usually are my opinion.

:( say it isnt so...

but about the lists, my phone number is unlisted. i still get them calling my house.

It's so. We have special magic. It's called randomly generated phone numbers. You don't have to be listed. If you've put your phone number down to apply for something, you're out there.


Yeah, people are mean to survey people. I always try to be nice to them, but I do tend to give very odd answers to surveys, sad thing is, they usually are my opinion.

I don't mind odd answers. Especially if they make me laugh. Keep in mind I spend several hours of the day getting shrill fax mahcines and the annoying "wrong number" beep between hang-ups and cursing maniacs. Anyone who's willing to take the time to answer our idiotic questions can have as many strange responses as they want as far as I'm concerned.

Yeah, people are mean to survey people. I always try to be nice to them, but I do tend to give very odd answers to surveys, sad thing is, they usually are my opinion.

I'm always nice to cold callers until I ask them to take my name off the list and 5 days later the same exact company calls me again wanting to know/have the same exact information.

I'm always nice until they don't care about me being polite in asking them to remove my number, but them getting their sale numbers up.

'Tis a job. We do "customer satisfaction surveys" here and the occasional focus group. Absolutely no selling. It doesn't save us from being verbally abused by very, very mean people though. Truth be told I really hate it, but money is money.

Oh yeah. Here's a little hint for anybody who doesn't want to be bothered by cold callers who are not affected by the Do Not Call lists here in the U.S. Say: "Please take me off your list". Anyone who is familiar with Do Not Call lists often assume that if they are on one it automatically applies to market research as well. It does not. You have to request removal from our lists. Yelling at us about how you're already on THE Do Not Call List is assinine.

My unwavering policy is I don't give out money over the phone, and I don't give out money at the door. Give it to me in paper so I can read it on my own time, and I'll consider it. Then go away.

As to cold callers, I'm already on the do-not-call list, so I assume any call I get is one I want unless it's one of our numerous wrong numbers asking for the theatre (that's 368-xxxx, we're 366-xxxx") or just a plain wrong number. Other than that, I tend to answer phone surveys if I have the time - my goal then is to get the caller to laugh. Usually they're in a bad mood though, so that's a challenge. The other type is people begging for "good causes" like fire and police. I used to give money to the police, but don't anymore because I don't give out money over the phone and they won't mail me anything unless I say I'll give them money. Stupid people.

I feel too bad for the door-to-door dudes to hurl verbal abuse at them and slam the door in their faces. Thus they are more annoying.

Cold callers are more annoying. At least door-to-door people have the decency to talk to you face-to-face.

you can have more fun with cold callers...
I always do: As soon as Coldcaller starts annoying me, I tell him that he violates German law and he had bad luck calling a worker for the Verbraucherschutz. He'd expect to be sued.

Cold callers. I can keep out the salesman with a fence and annoying small dog.

As soon as Coldcaller starts annoying me, I tell him that he violates German law
Whaa? How come nobody told me?

Cold Callers: I can get up to 10 a day.