Comments on: Best phone solicitor story of all time http://funny-about-money.com/2009/10/08/best-phone-solicitor-story-of-all-time/ Simple Living = Frugality = Peace of Mind: Personal Finance and Stress Control Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:47:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: funny http://funny-about-money.com/2009/10/08/best-phone-solicitor-story-of-all-time/comment-page-1/#comment-18171 funny Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:51:10 +0000 http://funny-about-money.com/?p=9317#comment-18171 @ frugalscholar: Yes, they are. They surely are the enemy. Burglars are desperate, too. But that doesn't give them any more right to break into your home to steal whatever they can than it gives a phone solicitor a right to break into your privacy to extract money from you. IMHO, the only difference between a burglar and a phone solicitor is that I can't get at the phone solicitor with my shotgun. Yesh. Political calls. ANY call that's a recording, which includes a lot of commercial calls these days. If I fire my shotgun into the receiver, all it does is take out their machine. Darn! @ frugalscholar: Yes, they are. They surely are the enemy.

Burglars are desperate, too. But that doesn’t give them any more right to break into your home to steal whatever they can than it gives a phone solicitor a right to break into your privacy to extract money from you.

IMHO, the only difference between a burglar and a phone solicitor is that I can’t get at the phone solicitor with my shotgun.

Yesh. Political calls. ANY call that’s a recording, which includes a lot of commercial calls these days. If I fire my shotgun into the receiver, all it does is take out their machine. Darn!

]]> By: frugalscholar http://funny-about-money.com/2009/10/08/best-phone-solicitor-story-of-all-time/comment-page-1/#comment-18074 frugalscholar Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:50:53 +0000 http://funny-about-money.com/?p=9317#comment-18074 I don't know...the people on the phones are not the "enemy" here. Usually this is an entry level desperation job. So why waste their time? Not to mention yours? I just say "I don't respond to phone solicitations." What I hate are the political calls during dinnertime--these are recordings, not real people at the other end. I don’t know…the people on the phones are not the “enemy” here. Usually this is an entry level desperation job. So why waste their time? Not to mention yours? I just say “I don’t respond to phone solicitations.”

What I hate are the political calls during dinnertime–these are recordings, not real people at the other end.

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