Those wonderful telemarketers from Air Duct Cleaning called again. His name was Sam Paul this time.
Transcript:
Sam Paul: Hi. This is Sam Paul from Air Duct Solutions. How are you today?
Me: Hi. Good.
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Me: I’m kind of busy at the moment, could I get your phone number to call you back?
Sam: Sure, it’s *insert fake number here*
Me: So it’s *insert fake number here*, right? (It can’t be this easy.)
Sam: Yes. That’s correct.
Me: Alright, thanks. Could I also get your company’s address?
Sam: *chuckle* Sir, why do you want my address?
(At this point, I’m just trying to see what kind of fake address he’s going to give me. He tries to say some random roads plus a number at the end. Sounds real to me!)
Me: Not your address, your company’s address.
Sam: It’s in Scarborough.
Me: Where in Scarborough?
Sam: Sir, why do you want the address?
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Sam: Sir, I know you weren’t interested so I gave you a fake number and address.
Me: So why do you do this then?
Sam: Sir, my company pays $5000 for the Do Not Call list.
At least he was honest about giving me a fake number and address. I don’t know if his other statement is true or not though. =\
If telemarketers aren’t afraid of the penalties enforced by the CRTC, what purpose does the DNCL serve? If people can then pay X dollars to get a copy of the DNCL, it basically means I’ve signed up to a list of phone numbers that will be called, thereby making the DNCL utterly useless. Oh, how I wish the CRTC was actually useful.
Round 1 can be viewed here.
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