I have a hard time believing that. How come I do not receive these calls? Last time I got such a call was when I last posted about it in one of the threads on geoexpat.
There are going after a specific demographic. They have obviously done their research and your profile appears to meet their criteria for prospective customer. It would not surprise me if they do not bother to look into your language capabilities.
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14-06-2010, 07:44 PM #21
Last edited by Dreadnought; 14-06-2010 at 07:50 PM.
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14-06-2010, 08:01 PM #22
The only reason I would separate out phone calls is that it COSTS ME MONEY to receive an unsolicited phone call when I am roaming. That really pisses me off. In other countries that I have lived, there have been various registers you could join (often run by your own phone company) that prevented telemarketers from calling you. They basically are required to check the list before ringing. In some places there were even lists for postal junk mail - to cut that down too - since it's equally annoying and just as destructive to the planet.
However, IMHO, the single best thing one could do in HK to stop telemarketing would be to make phone calls cost money - all this free local dialing is the root cause of the problem. If the calls cost, then people would 1) target more selectively and 2) not dial random numbers and so staying ex-directory would work. In Aus and NZ we had fixed price local calls (20c or so) which meant that most people were not penalised but it would add up for telemarketers (who probably get cut off within a few seconds 80% of the time!). I can probably count on the fingers of one hand the number of telemarketing calls I got in UK, Aus and NZ... and most of those were from my own financial organisation trying to sell insurance rather than some random caller who does not even check that I speak their language!Last edited by MovingIn07; 14-06-2010 at 08:02 PM.
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14-06-2010, 08:16 PM #23
It would be pretty damn stupid of them to go to all the effort of finding out enough about me to target me (for whatever it is that they are selling - I never find out since they won't speak English) but not to find out which languages I speak! I assume they don't know my name either (if they do, why don't they use it, and if they don't how could they possibly be targetting me).
I get maybe one or two a week of these calls - and they really don't bother me that much - I've spent more time on this thread than I would dealing with a year's worth of unsolicited calls.
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14-06-2010, 08:49 PM #24
i simply implement a self imposed do not answer system. just dont answer calls from numbers you dont know.
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14-06-2010, 09:30 PM #25
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14-06-2010, 09:57 PM #26
O, maybe you can sell the random caller your service/products whenever they call.
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15-06-2010, 07:48 AM #27
LMAO. That might be quite fun actually ....
"hey, great to hear from you ... actually, I was about to ring you ... do you need any economic consulting services? We do a great line in modelling your electricity markets and helping you work with your regulator ...."..
"what? you don't actually have any regulator? Blimey ... no wonder you are not barred from calling me....."
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15-06-2010, 08:56 AM #28
There's a great free app for iPhone that's called HK Junk Calls. It contains MANY numbers that have been blacklisted. I used to get a lot of calls, and still do, but now I see it's a 'Junk Call', so I choose to ignore.
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15-06-2010, 09:44 AM #29
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