{"id":142,"date":"2008-10-21T23:39:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T03:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/?p=142"},"modified":"2008-10-21T23:39:07","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T03:39:07","slug":"my-new-line-for-telemarketers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/2008\/10\/21\/my-new-line-for-telemarketers\/","title":{"rendered":"My new line for telemarketers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>I actually don&#8217;t talk to many telemarketers anymore&#8211;I&#8217;m on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donotcall.gov\/\">do not call list<\/a>, so nobody&#8217;s been calling to sell me aluminum siding or vacation get-aways. Ever since cell phones really took off, it seems that the long distance companies aren&#8217;t falling over themselves to get you to switch to their plan, although I do remember plenty of this in the late 90&#8217;s. And although we don&#8217;t have caller ID, we&#8217;ve gotten pretty good about catching the second or so delay from the robodialers and hang up before the telemarketer comes online.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes someone does get through, and it&#8217;s usually either a charity (usually one that I nominally support) or a political campaign, asking for more money. However, I really, strongly prefer to give on my own terms and on my own schedule, and not theirs. So I want to get rid of them, in some way that&#8217;s still polite. So this is what I say now:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although I will continue to support [your cause], I do not make financial commitments over the phone due to identity theft concerns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All I have to do now is think of a line to get rid of the (overpriced) identity theft &#8220;protection&#8221; sales pitches that my credit card companies foist upon me.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I actually don&#8217;t talk to many telemarketers anymore&#8211;I&#8217;m on the do not call list, so nobody&#8217;s been calling to sell me aluminum siding or vacation get-aways. Ever since cell phones really took off, it seems that the long distance companies aren&#8217;t falling over themselves to get you to switch to their plan, although I do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metcaffeination.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}