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?

  • dan1101@lemm.ee
    16·
    11 months ago

    Part of the telemarketing industry is selling crappy lists to new/unwary telemarketers. The sellers don’t and maybe can’t properly curate the lists, and the telemarketers try to make a living through volume of calls.

      • Gabu@lemmy.ml
        42·
        11 months ago

        That’s just true of 90% of jobs in a capitalist society.

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      11 months ago

      Yeeeup. Every eighteen months or so, we get a fresh pack of assholes trying to trick us into answering to the name of some guy who never even lived here.