Doing me a favor…

May 30, 2003

<ring!>

<ring!>

_Hello?_

Hi! I’m with Blah-Blah Roofing, and we’re going to be in your area…

_Did you say “Blah-Blah Roofing?”_

Yes. And due to the recent storms, we’re going to be in your area…

_What’s the phone number there at Blah Blah?_

XXX-XXX-XXXX… As I was saying, we’re going to be in your area and we’d like to come out and…

_You do realize you’re calling a number on the Texas No-Call list, correct?_

I don’t understand.

_I paid a couple of bucks to the State of Texas so I don’t get calls like this. Me and Blah Blah, we don’t have an existing business relationship, so you can’t call._

Oh, we’re not trying to _sell_ anything—we want to give you a free roofing insp…

_It applies to gathering information that will or may be used for later sales, also. If you’re going to be making a lot of calls today, you might want to get that straight—it could be just a bit expensive for you._

Listen, we’re trying to do you a favor here…

_Tell you what. I’m just finishing filling out the online complaint form—would you like to give me your name so I can put it in here?_

_That way, when they come out to fine you for the violation, they can make sure to talk to you personally and you can explain why they’re wrong._