Robot Telemarketers

[oldbuddy]

What do you do when some robot calls you with a recorded pitch and says press 1 to talk to me or 9 to be removed from the list?

If I have time, I ALWAYS ask to talk to them. Than I ask how stupid they think I am to expect I would EVER buy ANYTHING from someone who has so little respect for me that they use a ROBOT to start our relationship!!!

Live telemarketers can call me anytime and all they will get is a pitch to get them out of their dead-end job, but these robots have to go!

[mrisha]

I agree with you Oldbuddy, they are annoying, but what I do before they ask those questions-I hangup.  Those types of calls are an imposition and insulting.

[shernajwine]

those calls are extremely annoying. i get one all the time that as soon as i answer and say hello, it says "please hold to speak with a representative" at first i was just hanging up cuz i'm thinking ..........i hate being on hold and i didn't even call you, why in the name of sanity would stay on this call???

then one time i decided to see what this dang call was all about and finally when an operator answered she said...how can i help you?

WHAT??? you called me people! i been sitting on hold!

the fact that people can do this to other people legally is ridiculous. it's legal harassment i think!!!! 

[mc1962]

I think they are annoying too but I am never rude to them as I know that they prob hate their job too. 

[JessieKateRose]

Robot telemarketers are illegal. You can seriously sue them for calling you and having a robot talking to you when you answer the phone.

[florezitta10]

those calls are extremely annoying. i get one all the time that as soon as i answer and say hello, it says "please hold to speak with a representative" at first i was just hanging up cuz i'm thinking ..........i hate being on hold and i didn't even call you, why in the name of sanity would stay on this call???

then one time i decided to see what this dang call was all about and finally when an operator answered she said...how can i help you?

WHAT??? you called me people! i been sitting on hold!

Hahhahahahahhha I thought the same when they do that to me lol

[tantricia44]

I just ask for a human, & the machine sends me to a real person!

[Elizabethar]

I really do hate them, If I want to buy something from  them then  I Will Call and ask for A real person to talk to.

[ButterflyWings]

I don't like them at all it is so impersonal..so I let my machine get them lol..If it is a person then I call back if not then I let a machine talk to a machine lol..

[freepcmoney]

Since I have done all kinds of telemarketing for about 20 years, I feel I am qualified to speak to this matter. The robot is a disk with names and numbers that is placed into a computer AND the computer does the dialing. Thank God for the computer, it saved my fingers, my eyes and my job. It greatly increases production. All I have to do is set here with my headset on and file my fingernails, until someone comes on the line. Now you must be interested, OTHERWISE you would have pressed the number to be removed, or just would have hung up, unless you just want to curse me out, then I just press a button to get you off my line and play some suduko while I wait for my next call. Perhaps it will be someone that I can connect with in some kind of way. Maybe I can say a funny and make them laugh, or say a prayer with them or for them, OR maybe I will even sell them something, IF NOT then I will just press the button, file my nails and wait for my next call.

I have learned to just ignore the rude, crazy people and take home with me the nice, or needy people that I could touch in some way today. I have been disabled for years due to several accidents and not physically able to do much but telemarketing. I had to support myself some kind of way, BECAUSE I did not get anything from the damn government. I never did, but many of those beside worked in wheelchairs.

[rcbrad]

I did not know that telemarketing robots were illegal.  I almost always screen my calls with my answering machine.  It sometimes annoys friends and family to have to wait for me to pick up, but it usually is only another 30 seconds or so. I try to be near the phone and pick up as soon as I hear that it somebody that I want to talk to.

[oldbuddy]

There are more on the way from all the Internet websites that convince MLM'ers that this is the answer to getting leads. They are adding more accounts daily.

[dkanofsky]

Telemarketers are extremely presumptuous and just a pain in the neck but now with the robots it's even worse.  Any time our phone rings my wife or I just look on the display of our phone.  If we don't recognize the number we will not answer it.  Then we check the voice mail and if it's really important, which it rarely is, we'll call back otherwise we just push that good old delete button.

[katycamilo]

I do not like the robot telemarketers.

[karenkpc]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/08/ftc-drops-the-banhammer-on-prerecorded-robocalls.ars
FTC made it a no no in 2009!