# Haranguing on the telephone

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/1998/10/10/haranguing-telephone/
- Published: 1998-10-10T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Some people don’t like receiving fundraising appeals via telephone. Some people 
object to any sales message being delivered in the privacy of their own home. And
some of these people are sharing their dislike in a rather practical way. They have
set up [The Anti Telemarketer’s Source ](http://www.antitelemarketer.com), a Web
site dedicated to spreading best practice in “telemarketer tormenting techniques”.
You can even play a game that awards points for every minute that you keep a telemarketer
on the ‘phone, asking them inane questions.

With any luck your donors won’t come across the site, but it might just be sensible
to bone up on what your telemarketers could be faced with on this evening’s call
session.

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