Blacklisting is NO fun! Try searing for Asterisk+Telemarketer+Torture http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+Telemarketer+Torture Ryan On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Gregory Taylor wrote:
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:45:23 -0800 From: Gregory Taylor <greg@xwb.com> To: 'Andy Davidson' <andy@nosignal.org>, nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: How to stop UltraDNS sales people calling
Tell them that you have absolutely no interest in doing business with their company now and in the future and that any future calls will be considered harassment. If that doesn't work, explain to them that they have an inferior product to that of their competitors and that you are more likely to utilize their competitors products instead of theirs and if they try to tell you the benefits of their product stop them short and say it doesn't matter if their competitor's product isn't as good, you will use them simply because they don't call you. Or call them a doody face and be done with it.
If their number stays the same each call, call block them. That seems to work for me on most telemarketing issues.
Greg
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Andy Davidson Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 6:42 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: OT: How to stop UltraDNS sales people calling
Hi,
I am really fed up of calls from UltraDNS - we seem to get them every few days. We don't need their product.
We've tried saying no, and additionally we've tried putting people on hold indefinitely, trying to be enough of a nuisance to drop off their sales call list (works with UK telcos - try it).
I just had a guy on hold for 18 minutes before taking him off hold to say that we didn't want their product, and could he please stop calling.
He told me he would still calling until he got through to the right person. I am the right person.
In the interest of Anglo-American relationships - any Neustar people on list willing to help ?