Re: OTQ

I kinda like that, Rich. And while I don't have nine kids to amuse [thank goodness], I do know how to say "Can you hang on for a sec?" Seems like every cop in Florida has his own benevolent society, which we seem to have supported last year. Maybe I can just put the phone down on the table and go back to reading my book. 


On Jan 14, 2008, at 10:08 PM, Richard Apking wrote:


I live in  a sort of rural area, the town (pop 104) seems to be too
small for the dtd types to bother with.  However, the phone solicitors
are rampant.  My good friend Jim Kelly has 9 kids, he says it's kinda
neat, when the phone folks call, he gives the phone to a 2 year old.
Has been doing that quite a while.  Says he isn't bothered very much,
and it keeps the kids entertained.  The phone folks, on the other hand
don't enjoy it nearly as much, since they can't break the connection
until he does.  I think it's great.

Donna wrote:

no DTD allowed here. If a new company wants to promote something, they
do it at the town hall (err... bar) everyone gets a notice in the
mailbox with time, date, who they are.... and it is up to you to show up 
if you want to hear the deal of the week.
Although I will get kids coming to the door selling some kind of school thing- candy bars, magazines.... 

I do feel sorry for the telemarketers who call my aging mothers house
tho..... they get the speach about getting a real job instead of
bothering old folks like her... LOL~!


  Donna


Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net> wrote:
  Not too many d-t-d salespeople when it's 20 degrees out here....
Verizon heavily canvassed here last year, trying to convert everyone. I would see them going d-t-d in addition to the constant barrage of mail and tv ads. But they didn't usually get to me because my doorbell doesn't work 
:+)
One guy finally confronted me in the driveway. We talked at length, but Verizon could in no way match what I get from Comcast. So he gave up. Then around Tgvg they sent a young girl here. Again, Verizon can't match what I get from Comcast. One difference in her spiel was that several times she mentioned that Comcast used copper wire which she said is nowhere near as good as what Verizon has. I explained that Ft Wayne's REA Wire is a large producer of the copper wire and I'd much rather keep a local manufacturer in business. Finally, she told me essentially that Comcast would be defunct in the coming year and then I'd be sorry because it would cost me twice as much to convert. (well, she said it more nicely than that, but that's the gist of 
it.)


Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message -----
From: "james singer"
To: "Garden Chat"
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 6:34 PM
Subject: [CHAT] OTQ




Anybody else noticed this? We've had a big increase in door-to-door
salesmen--from zero 6 months ago to two-three a day now. We've also had four Verizon salesmen in the last 5 day [not counting Sunday, of course] peddling their new FiOS [fiber-optic system] internet/cable channel/long distance hookup service. Since they tore up most of the front yards around here when they installed the fiber-optic cable, you'd think they would be smart enough to let the neighborhood ire quell before bragging about what they did. But since their cable competitor here is Comcast, it's become a 
tussle between dumb and dumber.


Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.1 N, 82.4 W
Hardiness Zone 10
Heat Zone 10
Sunset Zone 25
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
Maximum 100 F [38 C]

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Southwest Florida
27.1 N, 82.4 W
Hardiness Zone 10
Heat Zone 10
Sunset Zone 25
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
Maximum 100 F [38 C]

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