[Asterisk-Users] Re: Telemarketer Torture

[Greg Boehnlein]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Cees de Groot wrote:

> Chris Albertson  <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com> said:
> >My brother has the BEST solution for sales people.  He makes
> >an appointment with them to come out and gives an address across the
> >street.  It really wastes a real estate salesman or house painter's
> >time to drive out to a dead end.  Keeps em off the phone too.
> >
> I once got Reader's Digest direct mail department off my back by sending
> them a formal offer to check their mail service - every received mail
> piece would be reported by me (including a 'quality report' - folded,
> cracked, ...) and I would invoice only some 50 dollars per mail piece
> for that. Sending mail would constitute acceptance of the offer - never
> got a single piece of mail from them again (a pity, I could've been
> rich ;-)).
> 
> Wonder whether one could build up a similar construction (the paper one
> was legally quite watertight, of course) for telemarketeers...

Why not re-direct them with their ANI to a 900 number that you own? 
Announce that they have reached a pay per minute service, and that the 
first 2 minutes are free of charge, but that subsequent minutes would be 
charged  at a rate of $20 / minute?

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