VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

[ccpetersen]

We are looking for actors with Southern and Midwest/Neutral accents to audition for recurring, short, web based videos. We have a network of national and international resellers that choose, from our actor pool, who they would like to have representing their client's companies. We record videos of live people walking off a website. For more information, please contact us. Need great personality and clear speech.

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Just curious how you film people walking off a website?

Also saw this one today, too:

Connecticut producer is searching for people experienced in alien encounters for television project...
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[ConnieTerwilliger]

[ccpetersen]

[ConnieTerwilliger]

I do a little tappy dancing - started it last spring - very fun.
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[ccpetersen]

[scottnilsen]

You should keep track of those and report them...that's supposed to be an $11,000 fine every time that happens.
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[ccpetersen]

[Jeffrey Kafer]

you have to jump through a fair amount of hoops. you have to get the person's name, the address, the company and you have to make sure they know you no longer want to be called, etc etc. and it has to happen more than once. As well, I don't believe it's $11,000, but closer to $1000.

All of that with the caveat of "I'm not a lawyer, but...."
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[davidmonteath]

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[Frank F]

Contact the National Do Not Call List and sign-up NOW on the internet. Although this takes a week or so to activate, once you are on the list - you may inform solicitation callers of such and they may not call again (period).

You do have rights, and the first thing I would ask for when receiving solicitation calls is for the callers name and employee number, the company this person represents, the company which employs this person, and the company telephone number.

Then say: "Thank-you" I choose not to accept your calls at this time or any time in the future, should you or your company call this telephone number again I shall begin legal proceedings against you and your company. This number is on the National Do Not Call Registry. Goodbye. And, Hang up. Write down the time, date and general information about the telephone solicitation call.

The NSNC Registry requires 31 days to activate. You may still receive solicitation calls until this requirment is met. Inform additional callers of the information stated above and that you have previously received calls from them. Then report the abuse to the NDNC list.

Now you have ammunition for an attorney.

Please be aware; political calls and calls from charities are exempt from this list. If you "opt-in" for solicitation calls, your protection is lost. Also, as stated earlier: IF you are a present customer of a company, they may have the right to call you - if allowed by you under your agreement. Be careful what you sign.

(No, I am not a lawyer, no do I play one on TV or radio. I AM someone who has been bothered by incessant calls before however.)

Toodles

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[ccpetersen]

Frank,

Yes, we've been on that list for several years and are very pro-active about uninvited callers. However, we found out about the "pre-existing customer" loophole last year and it is legal for them to call. Last night was the last straw for these folks. I had to get pretty tough this time and put some menace into my voice. The woman backed down and told me they'd put me on their DNC list, even though, as she reminded me, we were an existing customer. That's when I said, "Not any more."

Not to completely thread-jack my own thread but a few years ago our little two-person company's toll-free number was swamped with calls from people who couldn't spell. There was an ad campaign running for a fat-busting drug called Meridia. The company would run the number 1-888-MERIDIA on the screen and leave it up for about 1.2 seconds. Viewers would spell it MERRIDIA or MERRIDDIA , and we'd get the calls. One of the misspellings was one digit off from our number and of course people didn't write it down correctly. In a week we had more than a thousand calls from people who were desperate for the drug, and WE were having to pay outrageous incoming toll-free number fees.

We finally got through to the company that made the drug and they agreed to pay our phone bills on the 888 line essentially, for a few months. It got so bad we had to stop answering our company phone line and let an answering machine take the calls. We recorded a message explaining to people how to spell Meridia and asking them to be more careful in dialing the number. That worked mostly, and luckily our usual clients took the whole thing in good stride. But, we got more than a few nasty messages on our answering machine, swearing at us for NOT helping them get Meridia.

I wish I had a few bucks for every time I DID answer the phone, only to be yelled at by somebody who'd just seen the ad on daytime TV and called up looking for the drug. The whole episode shook my faith in people's innate ability to admit a mistake, and it made both of us almost anal retentive about getting unwanted calls.

To be fair to the company that made and sold the drug, they DID make good on paying for our phone bills, and in the ultimate stroke of irony, for Christmas that year they sent us the most expensive Harry and David tower in the catalog -- chock full of candy, nuts, cookies, and fruit!

Okay, back to our regularly scheduled chat about Craig's List ads.
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[Frank F]

If at first you don't succeed... demand a Supervisor. If that does not work, get angry, and if that doesn't work... hit them in the --- pocketbook.

Someday I will relate my experience with my soon-to-be-former cell phone carrier. To sum it up... I followed my own advice and now they owe me money... I liked that part.

Toodles

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[mcm]

CC, you tell the best stories!!!!

[ccpetersen]