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Telemarketing in exchange for free calls/texts? Would you go for it?

  • 15-09-2011 11:09pm
    #1
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭


    Imagine if you could get free calls and texts for life on Vodafone or O2 or Meteor, but with the condition that they're free to give let advertisers send you texts / calls about products?
    You could theoretically set up times of the day it's not allowed to bother you with them, or something to that effect.

    Would you take it?

    Having initially thought of this as a great idea, I suddenly realized it would be disastrous. You would come to regard the beep of a text message or your ringtone as probably just being an ad, and therefore you'd risk ignoring it when the message was actually something important from a friend or something.

    What do people think?


Comments

  • #2
    D1stant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭D1stant


    Great idea. I'll take mine between 3 and 5 am. Phone is on silent and I will delete all msgs in the morning


  • #3
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    No thanks


  • #4
    Samich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭Samich


    Webtexts FTW! :)


  • #5
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    Having initially thought of this as a great idea, I suddenly realized it would be disastrous. You would come to regard the beep of a text message or your ringtone as probably just being an ad, and therefore you'd risk ignoring it when the message was actually something important from a friend or something.

    The main users of such a service would be the telemarketers themselves seeing as how they would be able to send unlimited free text spam ?


  • #6
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    On a scale of 1-10, where 1 means absolute ****e and 10 means bloody brilliant. how would you rate this thread? :D


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  • #7
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Ruu wrote: »
    On a scale of 1-10, where 1 means absolute ****e and 10 means bloody brilliant. how would you rate this thread? :D

    5 posts into the thread, any such judgement is premature.


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