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.
Lame. A Tele-marketing “think tank”, talk about lipstick on a pig.
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 Seems to me those dreadful telemarketing jobs must have been replaced by marginally better jobs at those less annoying companies that got a greater share of the consumer’s wallet.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.
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.