Thanks Tine for providing the email addresses and a copy of the email you sent! I composed my own and have sent it! Here is is if anyone wants to see!
To Whom It May Concern:
We have been continuously receiving phone calls from your company from some one wanting to speak to the owner of the business.
The people who call are very pushy and refuse to accept "I am not interested" as a response. The only way to get rid of them is to hang up on them. I realize that everyone is trying to get as much business as they possibly can right now, however cold calling is the most annoying form of marketing! Do you actually believe that people are sitting at their desks with nothing to do, waiting for a company to call and offer a product that they are not even in the market for? Even if I was in the market for your services, I certainly wouldn't set up an appointment with a random stranger of a company that I have never heard of, I would look for a referral from another business owner. If I set up an appointment with every cold caller who called me, I would get no sleep! BUSINESES HATE COLD CALLERS! Therefore the cold calling is having an opposite effect of what you want, you have already annoyed me so I would never seek you out for your services now. Please do us all a favor and look for a less annoying way to market!
I am emailing you demanding you take us off of your calling list! If you do not do so we will take further action.
I understand that you guys are just doing your jobs, I am not someone who yells at telemarketer because I do realize that you guys are just doing your job, but I HAVE said to them very politely "I am not interested" and they reply with "will wednesday work for you to set up an appointment?". What part of I am not interested is not understood? Hanging up is the only option I am left with because you guys want your way and are not willing to accept no as an answer.
Got a call earlier today and I told them I was not interested so the guy says "will wednesday work for you for an appointment?" Again, I told him again I was not interested and he said "well you dont have to buy anything, you can just have the information for future knowledge". Again I said I was not interested and he kept talking so finally my only option was to hang up on him. A couple hours later I get a call from a man who starts off with the same line as the guy before and then says "so you'll be getting some information from us". I told him that I was not interested and he said that they guy that called earlier marked it down wrong. Do these guys work on commission or something? What part of NOT INTERESTED is so complicated??
To the people who supposedly "work" for this company - they don't even know the name of the owner of the company, they just ask for "the owner." And I highly doubt you make more than the owner of our company - he is quite wealthy, and no longer works in the office besides the occasional meeting anyway. This isn't even our corporate location, just the first location.
I agree that cold calling is most likely a very inefficient way to get business. We do not even take credit cards (we work on PO's only, paid by company check) so you are completely wasting our time by calling here! Also, I think Angie Gonzalez has more problems than telemarketers, LOL.
BTW, you do not make me angry at all. I wish I could do the whistle thing, but I am at the front desk of a decent sized company so it might look/sound a little... funny, and I'd probably get in trouble. I would pretend to be the owner but I run a busy switchboard and don't have time to let them get into their speil (not spill, people!) All righty then, cheerio!