When receiving unsoliciting phone calls by telemarketers, many people consistently hung up, don’t bait, and don’t interact. So why don’t telemarketers delete from their databases such phone numbers that don’t lead to any sales or other business benefits?
Maybe the cost of keeping the numbers is so low telemarketers just don’t bother. Or keeping track of what numbers to delete may actually have a cost. Or perhaps telemarketers hope those people will eventually pick up the calls.
Any insight?
I pretend to be an old demented lady whose granddaughter keeps hiding my wallet because she “thinks I’m too nice.” I “take the phone with me” while I “look through” the couch cushions, the fridge, the garage, and more. Every time they’re about to hang up I think up another place I could’ve left it or my granddaughter could have hidden it. When they get desperate I “find it”, but all of the cards are expired.