Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1.chuqui 4/7/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Junk Phone Calls! Message-ID: <1284@nsc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Aug-84 01:43:54 EDT Article-I.D.: nsc.1284 Posted: Fri Aug 10 01:43:54 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 23:49:06 EDT References: <178@pertec.UUCP> <1271@ihuxl.UUCP> Organization: Bryn Myrrdin Lines: 16 >The salesmen do not get paid to waste their time (or your time). >They work on commission. Not strictly true. Many firms hire armies of high school kids to canvass phones at minimum wage. If they get someone that sounds even vaguely interested they are then passed along to a salemen (who usually works on commission). This means that most of the harrassing phone calls you get are by people who get paid whether or not you buy, are usually reading a script, and normally don't care. -- From the depths of the Crystal Cavern: Chuq Von Rospach {amd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA Dreams, dreams, enchanter! Gone with the harp's echo when the strings fall mute; with the flame's shadow when the fire dies. Be still, and listen.