Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 03:05:08 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: when are unsolicited sales okay? Message-ID: <b3emh4$2sh5$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0302241244360.31149-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>
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Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net> 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
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