Modifying a wrong listing phone number

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Q. I am the licensor of many companies. I was adding their business information to the Business Listings in Google. One licensee gave me a phone number they WANTED, not had. I placed that number on the listing and would like to now have that listing removed. I had marked verify by letter, but this seems to confuse my Licensee when the letter comes. I've learned to keep control by placing my MAIN business number for each listing and hence can modify anything in the listing and have it verified by the VERIFYING MACHINE GUY over the phone line. I place their phone number as an Alternate number. Hence when the Potential clients call, I get it, and can refer them to the alternate number. Pretty slick, if I do say so myself. But this isn't my problem.

A. I'm EXACTLY the same way, at least when it comes to people trying to sell something or solicit a donation. Though if it's an organization I would otherwise support, they get one free call. During which I say, "I'm sorry, I don't conduct this sort of business by phone. Please send me something in the mail." Then I hang up. The *second* phone call gets them crossed off my donee list forevermore. However, I don't really object to surveys, nor to getting this sort of call from someone I actually know to remind me about something I already intended to do which originally came by mail. So by getting the name of the school and the subject of the call out there right away, Sarah wouldn't annoy me too much. Of course, I'd still rather they called me at *work*. I'm inured to annoying phone calls at work (and therefore never give my home phone number to anyone I don't have a personal relationship with), but at home when the phone rings I'm really disappointed and irritated when it's not someone I'd actually enjoy speaking to. While this will work for the original poster, it doesn't work for "telemarketers". I'm assuming here that the original poster dials the phone for these calls. Telemarketers do not dial the phones. They have a computer automated dialer. It dials several houses at once. It (the dialer) will send out call signals constantly. If all representatives are currently taking calls, the dialer pauses. (Did your phone ever ring twice, then stop without you picking up or your answering machine picking up? It was probably a telemarketer dialer signal). Anyway, the dialer is ringing houses, and once a person answers, only then is the pertinent information displayed on the screen of the terminal in front of the telemarketer. So, they *can't* practice the names ahead of time. This is also why when you pick up the phone and say "hello", there often is that pause before they say anything.

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