From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 24 19:31: 8 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DDCD37B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:31:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [193.197.184.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8855543FCB for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:31:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with gbsmtp id 18nVo6-0000I6-01; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 04:31:02 +0100 Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1P359t0094767 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 04:05:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mailnull@localhost.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h1P359Rv094766 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 04:05:09 +0100 (CET) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: when are unsolicited sales okay? Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 03:05:08 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > Can an unsolicited sales pitch ever be appropriate? Maybe it's my limited imagination, but I can't think of any such case. > Some people and businesses don't like door-to-door sales. (I don't mind > the very infrequent religious, chiropractic or vote-seeker coming to my > door.) I don't like them and I do mind. However, they are too infrequent to get riled up about. The moment I realize they're trying to pitch something, I shut the door. If I had a couple of them at my doorstep every day, I would probably be very pissed. > All of us (I assume) are against unsolicited email sales letters. 15121 since Sep 20, 1999. I'm not amused. > I dislike getting phone calls to my home trying to sell me new roofs, > better security systems, windshields, vacation packages, etc. I think these are illegal in this part of the world. Very rare. I'm even unhappy about them in the case of a pre-existing business relationship like my car dealer trying to push old inventory on me, or those customer satisfaction polls, etc. > I don't mind receiving a few sales pitches to my business telephone line > if they are related to my work. I do mind. In particular if they are sleazy investment schemes aimed at conning small business owners out of their money, which are about the only ones to ever call, and if they can't take no for an answer, which again seems to be the norm. Too infrequent to get riled up about, though. > I usually don't care about the tens of sales letters I receive each week; > sometimes I receive something interesting. I almost threw my new credit card into the trashcan because I mistook the envelope for junk mail. Yes, I do mind. The volume is too low to get really riled up about, though. > I don't receive unsolicited faxes anymore. Illegal and I don't have a fax machine. > Anyways, when are unsolicited sales okay? No idea. You tell me. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message