Telemarketers to this robot

How to send YOUR telemarketers to this robot

UPDATE! Thanks to my new friends at Digipigeon (which is an awesome name for a telecom carrier), we have UK telephone number for all your telemarketers! The The number is 0203-355-7498. Add it to your contacts, or remember it as “20 FELL SIX 8”.

Okay – you’ve probably noticed that telling a telemarketer to “remove me from your list” or “put me on your do-not call list” doesn’t really work. “Legitimate” Telemarketers can simply claim they have a prior business relationship with you, and “shady” telemarketers simply don’t care. I’m pretty sure I’ve gotten telemarketer calls from prisoners. If I owned a roofing company in the Chicago area, why not give a list of 500,000 homeowners to a telemarketing firm and say “call all of these numbers and tell me who is interested in a new roof”? I totally see the benefit. I just hated being a victim of it.

So what do you do if you’re getting annoying and repeated telemarketer calls? Well, you can transfer them to me if you want. My robot is happy to chat with anyone. Some of my best calls were routed through my mobile. The audio levels are a little lower, so my robot may not detect noise/silence correctly, but it’s usually a pretty good time.

So next time you get that call, don’t helplessly yell “quit calling me!” or “take me off your list!” That won’t do any good. They have the technology to call again. So use some technology to hit them where it hurts – in cost of human labor.

When you get a call from a telemarketer and they ask something like “Mr. Jones?”, say “Oh, you want Mr. Jones? Sure hang on – he’s right here…” then,