NATIONWIDE INSURANCE - The only way these folks are going to stop is if we make their business model unworkable. With these insurance folks, I like to listen to the initial caller ( a "Sales Aggregator" company, using a robo-voice to pre-screen) and agree to whatever they are selling. When they pass me on to an actual insurance broker (the one who is buying sale leads from the Aggregator - in this case "Ian" from Nationwide Insurance). I talked to "Ian" for quite a while, giving him completely bogus info about me, my family, and my insurance needs. Eventually, I notified him that he had been PUNKED and just had a lot of his time wasted. I then told him that using illegally operating (violating the National Do-Not-Call Registry) entities to drive sales leads IS NOT A GOOD IDEA and will lead to more and more wasted time until he finds another way to obtain sales leads...
NATIONWIDE INSURANCE - The only way these folks are going to stop is if we make their business model unworkable. With these insurance folks, I like to listen to the initial caller ( a "Sales Aggregator" company, using a robo-voice to pre-screen) and agree to whatever they are selling. When they pass me on to an actual insurance broker (the one who is buying sale leads from the Aggregator - in this case "Ian" from Nationwide Insurance). I talked to "Ian" for quite a while, giving him completely bogus info about me, my family, and my insurance needs. Eventually, I notified him that he had been PUNKED and just had a lot of his time wasted. I then told him that using illegally operating (violating the National Do-Not-Call Registry) entities to drive sales leads IS NOT A GOOD IDEA and will lead to more and more wasted time until he finds another way to obtain sales leads...
Unsolicited call. They never leave a message. Makes one wonder if Hitler had the right idea but was an underachiever. Remember, telemarketers, suicide is always an option.