No, not "darn near every company" uses cold calling. In fact, it's increasingly rare and most legitimate businesses have long since abandoned it, because it puts them in the same sewer as all the phone scammers. If you assume that a cold call is a SCAM, you will be right 99.9% of the time.
I REC'D A CALL FROM THEM TODAY (8-17-09) ON MY JOB ASKING ME ABOUT SELLING CELL PHONES. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT. IT WAS A LADY FROM PACE BUTLER (WHO ARE THEY)? THEY ASKED FOR ME MY NAME. PLEASE DON'T CALL MY JOB OR ANY OTHER PLACE.
Ticon from the Pace Butler Corporation. Buy back of used cell phones. Rude folks. when I told her no she could not fax over her information, she got snooty and hung up.
I called them back and reminded them I was on the Do Not Call List
Pace Butler called me today and asked if they can buy our company's used phones. I told them to fax me their information and then she got arrogant when I told her I would not have an answer for her by tomorrow as I was going to run it through our business manager before agreeing. Their rates for phones are low. Sometimes it's legit but other times they send no money to the sender and don't send their phones back either. Shady business, I would recommend just donating to your local charity.
Guy called from Pacebutler. Seemed fairley nice. He told me that their company buys used cell phones from other companies, and asked if he could fax his company info over. I told him that our company does not issue cell phones to employees. He then asked if I would keep his info on hand for amy personal, friends and familys cell phones. I told him that we donate ours back to At&t for the troops ion Iraq and Afganistan. (which we do) He said thank you for your time, and that was that.
He was a pretty nice guy. But I don't know anything about their company.