yeahhhh just got a call from them. they didnt respond and as I thought it was one of our customers, I took down the caller ID and wasted some time trying to addresss this before I found this site. I suspect I just went on a low level list just of people that actually pick up their phone.
I dont have a problem with telemarketers -I get that they just need work and probably dont like it anyways, but it is a waste of time that could be avoided if their crappy company didnt intentionally be elusive about who they are ("not a telemarketer") or vaguely provide contact info to make you think they are your customer. Its not a coincidence, and its probably illegal. yes poor telemarketers, but it is the CDW that is victimizing their own staff, and you can gaurantee that they understand people hate this. If you work for them I'm sorry, but either report so much dissatisfaction with potential customers that they change their policy, or realize that getting yelled out for legitimate reasons is part of your job if you work for that company. I need to make money too and you are taking it out of my pocket when you make me pay attention to you because you make it too hard to realize you are just like every other telemarketer -you dont deserve anymore of my time then them
I don't know if it was this particular number or not, but a sales rep from CDW has been calling the business I work for every week. I answer the phones (among many other responsibilities) and my boss does NOT want to be bothered with this - I asked him. I have been fairly polite with this sales person because he comes across as a reasonable person at first. However, this relentless calling every week and inability to take no for an answer is bordering on harassment. I see that a lot of telemarketer apologists have posted here, but please understand how many unsolicited sales calls I get every day. It is absolutely horrible these days; half the calls are robo-calls, others are obvious telemarketing farms trying to sell magazine subscriptions who keep calling back no matter what I tell them. Many of them lie to me, threaten me, etc. I've been sworn at in Hindi. Please look at it from my point of view. My job is screening calls so that my boss isn't bothered. I'm trying to put food on the table, too, and calling me after I've told you not to several times is only making it less likely that I will EVER let a call from you get through.