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Originally Posted by kramlavud
You can usually tell if a call is from a telemarketer by the pause after you say hello before the caller begins talking. if I get the pause, I hang up. Or let the answering machine screen the call.
Mark
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My kid's schools have auto-dialers that do that. usually it's nothing earth-shaking, but it saves the school money--no 4,000 copies going home per announcement. That's gotta save a small pine tree somewhere.
So I wait until I find out what it is. If it's a telemarketer and a person, I'm polite and never buy anything. Those folks have to make a living, too. Unless I think it's a scam (usually a cold-call stock or commodity investment offer), then I call the local cops with the caller ID number, Why not? If it's a machine I don't hang-up, I walk away. Let them pay for the looooong silence.