It's a job that has no place in society. Not just the person aking the call but the whole principle. Just a verbal version any mail you are not wanting. Ban it.
Then there are the Mc Donalds blot on the landscape towers around Europe, the motorcylists killed by a billboard, those adverts on TV that people hate (but still buy the product rather than boycott it), the brightly illuminated shop fronts at 03:00 (and flashing X that stops people sleeping). The invasive advertising on social media (that some people are prepared to pay not to see). Flyers in your letter box if they are still legal where you live (I read them, they're local and useful), the press-release "content" in newspapeers and magazines, product placement, F1 cars of a certain colour, people smoking in films so smoking is still cool (and deadly)... .
Advertising makes the world go round, without it I'd be living in poverty, Steve Jobs might never have made it and sccm might not mean anything to anybody.
Ultimately all cold callers are trying to rip off the victim. Whether it is an outright scam or selling something that is overpriced or not needed. Normal people don’t fall for it, so they are looking for the vulnerable who are gullible enough to exploit. That’s why I have no sympathy whatsoever for those who do it.
Ultimately all cold callers are trying to rip off the victim. Whether it is an outright scam or selling something that is overpriced or not needed. Normal people don’t fall for it, so they are looking for the vulnerable who are gullible enough to exploit.
Bollocks.
My company has saved businesses hundreds of thousands of pounds off the back of cold calls.
I’m talking about those who target domestic consumers, not businesses
Nope, cold anything in a private place should be banned.
Many of the business contracts we got were from flyers in private letter boxes; employees found the flyer in their letter box, showed it to the hierachy and the company contacted us. Everyone lives somewhere, including the CEO. My first target areas were the parts of town I reckoned business owners and middle managers would live.
On the industrial zones I used to go in and hand the flyer to whoever I found in the office and ask them to pass it to the relevant person. Most people being friendly and helpful they often did, another contract. 🙂
