They should be called phone solicitors instead of telemarketers because they are soliciting. marketing sounds so much better than soliciting though...

>One of my favorite techniques to experience being used by telemarketers is when you pick up the phone to answer it and a chearful message is played. “All of our personnel are busy with other calls. Please stay on the line”!
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>Also, the guy who keeps calling and leaves a ten-minute message (pre recorded) is annoying. You have to listen to the entire message in case you missed an important (to me) call.
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>I think that the telephone numbers of all telemarketers and persons associated with that industry should have his/her phone number published so all members of the public can call them and say, “Hello, I just want to congratulate you for doing such a great job at annoying the public”! :)
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>Tom