Thanks everyone for calling the robot. I know some of you sent telemarketers my way, but I had a lot of people just testing it out. I’ll filter through them as time allows. Who knew there was so much pent-up anger towards the telemarketing industry? I thought it was just me!
If you did send me a telemarketer call, then please email or message me with the approximate time, time zone, and the last four digits of your caller-id. That will really help me separate the telemarketer calls from the “hey Marge, listen to this!” calls.
I was spot testing some of the recordings and it sounds like the noise/silence detection isn’t always perfect. Please don’t get discouraged if you’re testing or of you actually send a telemarketer to the robot and it doesn’t work right. It’s kinda like fishing. Sometimes you snare one, and sometimes they get away. But the more you send, the more telemarketing time we’ll all consume together! Every minute they’re talking to me, they’re not talking to you.
Roger
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Roger,
By your telephone# I see you’re in the DFW area? I’m also in central texas area code 254. I used the bot today to return a call back to this credit card company the favor of buggin me nonstop. I got listen to these indians try and figure out what the heck was happening and the bee thing is a great distraction to throw them off. Totally ingenious. My 7 year old laughed along with me. I think your invention should be an app. Maybe you could market it somehow. Thanks for letting me use it.
Bruiser.
B R I L L I A N T ! ! ! Bravo
Way to go!
I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE MY HERO!!!
Nice service, kinda like lenny bot. If you need any DIDs or servers, I can throw ya a few, shoot me an email.
Love this. Great idea. It’s a lot easier than what I used to do back in the UK which was to tell the telemarketer how pleased I was they had called, and could they send a representative to my home. When the representative arrived, I invited them in, sat them down, and then explained that I wanted to tell them, face to face, that I wasn’t interested in their replacement windows (or whatever it was they were selling), and furthermore, any future phone calls would result in me repeating the process. I got called a few names, but it was worth it. I never got calls from those businesses again.
This may well be the most brilliant social engineering I have ever seen.
Thanks! That is very kind.
This the best thing I’ve ever heard of. I couldn’t stop laughing about the bee!!
All the best with it.
Thank you! It was just something dumb to say to fill some time and it works great.
Was introduced to JollyRoger through a Yahoo! article and cannot wait to try it. Hope you have as much fun making up the conversations as I have had listening to those Youtube recordings of telemarkter conversations with your bot.
These spam telemarketers have no shame. One purporting to sell Windows support and security called someone I know–called him on the office phone at a US senator’s office. It was the fastest hangup he’s ever had.
I’m looking forward to getting the Windows support calls to the robot. Thanks for your kind words and I hope this thing turns the annoying calls into entertainment.