Auto (Re) Dial
Jul 23rd, 2008 by mark
Amateur Neurotica has a new posting about those incredibly annoying telemarketing phone calls that greet you with a computerized voice when you answer the phone. I couldn’t agree more with the sentiment expressed in her posting. I would add, however, that until you endure the computerized greeting, and the hold time, and tell the human at the other end of the wire not to call your number any more, your phone number will remain on their list for future calls.
After having hung up on the same computerized phone call a couple of times, I finally decided to listen until the end. There I was presented with several options (still computerized), one of which was to press “2″ if I did not want to receive further phone calls. I have since tried this with other computerized phone calls – pressing “2″ as soon as I realized that a computer was talking to me about something I wasn’t interested in; sometimes it works (“your number has been removed” or something to that effect), sometimes it doesn’t. Worth a try, anyhow.