Posted on 11/07/2008 5:54:14 PM PST by indianbob
Business think tank, Direct Marketing Directions, has released their findings on the worldwide effect of ‘Do not call’ lists throughout the English-speaking world based on six months worth of research and interviews.
(Excerpt) Read more at corporatesalessolutions.com ...
The sales drive the salaries and sales are not being made. Your economics is the "window stays broken" fallacy.
I can’t say i’ve ever bought anything because of advertising and never because of salesman!
If I need something, I research it then go and purchase it.
I think that much of our current economic crisis has been aggravated, if not caused, by the failure to burn down telemarketers’ houses. The lack of a steady stream of arson leads to job losses in local fire departments, which impacts their families most directly and then has a trickle-down effect to other members of the community.
Stopping property crimes is one of the few legitimate functions of government. It is perfectly appropriate for the state, at my request, to prevent strangers from trespassing on my phone.
Lame. A Tele-marketing “think tank”, talk about lipstick on a pig.
Oh they have ways around the DNC list.
If the sales are not being made, the money for them is being spent on something else, too. If the sales are not being made, it means people didn’t want whatever junk the tele-harassers were selling, anyway.
My real point is that talking about money being “removed” from the economy is basically meaningless, unless somebody burns a pile of money.
Telemarketers are free to call your cell phone if it’s not listed on the Do Not Call regitry. They know how to get the lists. I put all my cells on that registry, suggest you do the same.
So what happened, did consumers start spending their money with less annoying companies instead? Certainly no economist is going to claim they started saving too much of it. Seems to me those dreadful telemarketing jobs must have been replaced by marginally better jobs at those less annoying companies that got a greater share of the consumer’s wallet. I’d imagine only the least satisfying companies had to go out of business because they could no longer strong-arm the elder during dinner, so the overall allocation of economic resources has been improved.
The equivalent crime is someone on the street yelling at you in your yard. They have not gone on your property, but sent sound in your direction, or in the case of your phone, electrical current representing sound. If you can make a case that the person in the street is disturbing the peace and you should call the sheriff, then fine. But it's not trespass.
I’ve never tried this, but I’ve heard of guys having one of those aerosol boat air-horns by the phone, and using it to let loose on telemarketers
... of course, that won’t have much effect on the computer calls.
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