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Originally Posted by biosurfer1
How hard is it to just hang up and say not interested? Seems to me that setting up a visit, then being there to screw with the guy as the OP did is a much bigger waste of time and won't stop robo calls...if anything, the call center has noted you answered and set up an appointment and will probably increase calls.
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This approach doesn't scale well. It's not a problem when one bum asks you for a dollar or some douchebag parks his motorcycle at the front door of WalMart, but what happens when you get 10, 100 of 1000 of them? I'm willing to bet it will be difficult to have a polite 10s "no thank you" conversation with each and every one of them.
Like email spam, companies use these methods because it's almost free. Even thought they get a very tiny rate of return, it is still profitable. If enough consumers push back and make it unprofitable, the practice will stop. Regulation and legislation has proven to be useless because the rules put in place are pretty weak and very difficult to enforce.
The default model should be "opt-in" not "opt-out"