Telemarketers

[Shelly]

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WPBFNews.com
Woman Gets Threatening Letter After Hanging Up On Telemarketer
El Paso Police Investigating Phone Call

UPDATED: 8:41 AM EST December 8, 2004
A Detroit-area woman received a threatening letter in the mail after hanging up on a telemarketer calling from Texas, according to Detroit TV station WDIV.

Jill Beyer, of Waterford Township, Mich., said she received the letter about one week after she refused to donate money in a recent call from a telemarketer.

"He wanted a donation for the veterans' association, which the veterans don't get that much of that money. That's why I wouldn't donate to him," Beyer said.

Beyer (pictured, left) said the man refused to take no for an answer so she hung up the phone.

"I slammed the phone very hard," Beyer said.

The letter arrived postmarked from El Paso, Texas. The first lines read, "Before you are rude to another telemarketer, you should keep in mind that he or she has your phone number and your address. Many of them live in your own state and most don't give a (expletive)! " (Read Full Letter)

"It makes me nervous. Obviously he's not playing with a full deck and even my kids are nervous," Beyer said.

El Paso police are reportedly taking the threat seriously and are searching for the person who sent the lette

the letter

WPBFNews.com
Letter From Telemarketer

POSTED: 7:51 pm EST December 6, 2004
UPDATED: 7:52 pm EST December 6, 2004
Jill Beyer,

Before you are rude to another telemarketer, you should keep in mind that he or she has your phone number and your address.

Many of them live in your own state and most don't give a (expletive)!

So, Ms. Beyer, the next time a telemarketer calls and you don't want to be bothered, a simple "not interested" will do.

Your son or daughter or next-door neighbor's daughter could very well be a telemarketer. A handicapped, wheelchair-bound person could be a telemarketer. A biker or ex-con is more likely to be a telemarketer. You really, really shouldn't (expletive) with them!

As they say in the telemarketing industry, "Have a good day Ms. Beyer!"

[Aunt Jemima]

Those poor folks are just trying to make a living is it there fault they have to do it by calling your home?

[Shelly]

Actually, there was another twist to the story. The charity was a fake. I'd post the link, but the website is down.

If I don't recognize the number, I don't answer the phone. If it's a legitimate call, they'll leave me a message.

A lot of telemarketers won't take 'no' for an answer and are very rude if even if you tell them politely that you're not interested. There's no excuse for that.

[Duff McCartney]

I get calls from numbers I don't recognize daily. Even on Sundays. Pretty weak.

[Marcus Bryant]

Ten years ago I responded to my last telemarketing call. The lady wouldn't take no for an answer, not even after the 3rd time. Finally I told her "look, I am wasting your time and you are wasting mine" and hung up. Another reason not to have a home phone line.

[Al Sharpton]

This is not a racial topic so i have no say,

[Mark in Austin]

Another reason not to have a home phone line.

I've only had a cell phone for going almost five years now. In the past month or so, those fuckers have started to find me again.

[Shelly]

I've only had a cell phone for going almost five years now. In the past month or so, those fuckers have started to find me again.


Yeah, I thought I read somewhere that they have begun targeting cell phones.

[AlamoSpursFan]

Haven't been bothered by a single telemarketer since Caller ID was invented. If I don't recognize the number, I don't answer the phone.

Like the front door, if I look out the peep hole and I don't recognize the person on my doorstep, I don't answer the door. Mrs. ASF had the hardest time adapting to that rule. She was a home invasion waiting to happen after we got married. There is no law stating that if someone rings the doorbell you HAVE to answer it. Drove her nuts at first, but I managed to recondition her.

[Shelly]

Haven't been bothered by a single telemarketer since Caller ID was invented. If I don't recognize the number, I don't answer the phone.

Like the front door, if I look out the peep hole and I don't recognize the person on my doorstep, I don't answer the door. Mrs. ASF had the hardest time adapting to that rule. She was a home invasion waiting to happen after we got married. There is no law stating that if someone rings the doorbell you HAVE to answer it. Drove her nuts at first, but I managed to recondition her.

I think we live in the same house...I never answer the door unless I know who it is. I finally got my kids to understand that rule.

[AlamoSpursFan]

Especially if you can tell they're peddling crap door to door. Why go to the trouble to open the door, listen to them spew several breathless sentences before you can say "I'm not interested", and put up with the dirty look as they waltz across your yard like it's a public freaking walkway? I just don't open the damn door.

[SpursWoman]

I (now) have problems with this.....since my daughter discovered the phone, and her eyes glaze over in a compulsive dash for the phone on the very first inkling of a ring, that at least she wait until it rings twice so the caller ID picks up the number and if they ask for me *accidently* hang up. I'll check the ID later and call back if I recognize the number. :fro

[Useruser666]

"Excuse me while I wipe myself."

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Where's my pizza?"

Those are good lines to use on marketers.

[Spurminator]

I was a telemarketer for a couple of years in college. The best thing to do is to politely tell them you're not interested and ask to be removed from their calling list.

Most are trained by their supervisors (who, conveniently, don't have to make any calls) to ask three or four times... giving a different reason each time. Their calls are monitored by their supervisors, and if they do what a normal person would naturally do (accept the first "no" and hang up) they can be reprimanded or fired.

[Blood Dong]

My dad has two responses to telemarketers:
1. my wife and I are having sex, can I call you back?

2. "well hey that sounds great, let me find a pen and write down your info, and hey while I'm searching for a pen, let me ask you a riddle, what has a little dick and hangs upside down?" I dunno sir "a bat" oh ok "now what has a big dick and hangs up?" I dunno sir..............CLICK!!!

[desflood]

You have to give them credit for being persistant, though. I got a call once from a lady trying to sell me a newspaper from ANOTHER STATE. When I told her that I don't read the paper (which I do), she asked well, why not? So, when I told her that I didn't read because I was blind (which I'm not), the impudent witch actually said to me, "Well, maybe your husband could read you the paper!"

[whottt]

Shelly and ASF, you guys need to get in touch with Publishers Clearing House...I read that they had a winner in San Antonio but they couldn't tell them they won because the people would never answer the door or the phone.

It could be you ;)

[whottt]

I might be an ahole, but on the offchance I do get a telemarketer, I just agree with everything they say, and say stuff like" reallly? You're kidding? Sounds great", until they finish their speil, and then I tell them I'm not interested and hang up. Pretty much keeps you out of arguments with them, and you don't have to be rude.

[Useruser666]

Just pretend you can't hear them. "Hello? Hello? Is anyone there?" Repeat.

[GODADDYSA]

i use this one often......

Daddy's Meat Market - can't beat my meat!!!

they don't say a word and then hang up :smokin

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

I might be an ahole

*Numerous Spurstalkers spit respective drinks onto monitors.*

:lol

[Duff McCartney]

I think we live in the same house...I never answer the door unless I know who it is. I finally got my kids to understand that rule.

The thing that sucks about my house..is that the front door had a huge oval glass there which my parents put so it looked like a stain glass. That solved the problem a bit but then on the side of the door is two glass things that you can see right through. That wouldn't be a problem if when I left my door open, you could see straight through.

[Duff McCartney]

2. "well hey that sounds great, let me find a pen and write down your info, and hey while I'm searching for a pen, let me ask you a riddle, what has a little dick and hangs upside down?" I dunno sir "a bat" oh ok "now what has a big dick and hangs up?" I dunno sir..............CLICK!!!

:lol

[ALVAREZ6]

telemarketers piss me off.