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Phone solicitation rant

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Dartful Dodger:

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on December 09, 2008, 03:18:11 pm ---You can usually separate the good ones from the bad by asking them to send you print materials for review.  A good charity will have no problem with it.  A scam charity won't ever want to spend the money or they don't even have any brochures.

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Part of the problem with that is that that is money down the drain. Money which could be applied towards whatever that charity is targeting. Look at Child's Play. AFAIK PA doesn't print up any materials for CP, it's all viral marketing carried on the shoulders of those willing to leverage their printers and copiers to produce any real world materials.  8)

ark_ader:
I get this from time to time on my cel.   I have a facility on my phone that allows a different ring tone from a number called regularly.  I have one for friends or a special Star Wars one for my Mom.

When I get these cold calls I just figure out the incoming number and associate it it a empty mp3 or vibrate.

That way I am not inconvenienced, and the caller goes away eventually.

ahofle:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on December 09, 2008, 05:25:50 pm ---Back when I had a landline, I did that trick with the disconnected number 3 tone  and put it on my answering machine, and set it to answer after 1 ring.

So it'd do it's "do dee DEET, hi this is James, please leave a message" and would confuse legit callers a little the first time it happened, but they got used to it.

It cut down the telemarketers substantially in 2 weeks.  I've heard you can simply do the first tone, too.

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LOL that is such a great idea.

http://www.payphone-directory.org/sounds.html

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on December 09, 2008, 06:22:00 pm ---Part of the problem with that is that that is money down the drain. Money which could be applied towards whatever that charity is targeting. Look at Child's Play. AFAIK PA doesn't print up any materials for CP, it's all viral marketing carried on the shoulders of those willing to leverage their printers and copiers to produce any real world materials.  8)

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Could be but wouldn't be.  9 out of 10 times the telemarketer hems and haws their way through the call and gets no money.  A 20 cent pamphlet and a stamp, though, could get them a decent donation.  You have to spend a little money to get some.

Child's Play likely spends a good amount on bandwidth and web development (donated or not, still has to be accounted for).  Probably more than other charities do on trifold pamphlets and some college student to cold call people.

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