FOR RELEASE
Aug. 12, 2015
Hasslein Books to Publish
Messing With Telemarketers
Messing With Telemarketers
Written by Haven Riney, the book will feature hundreds of actual
phone calls hilariously turning the tables on intrusive nuisances,
fighting fire not with fire but with illogic, idiocy and insanity.
NEW YORK, Aug. 12,
2015—Let's face it… it's annoying when telemarketers call your home. Even telemarketers hate getting calls from
telemarketers. Whether the callers hail from legitimate businesses, pollsters, or
unscrupulous scam artists, one fact is universal: when telemarketers waste your
time by repeatedly calling your house at all hours, day and night, it can be
maddening. Getting mad does no good, though. Hasslein Books' latest publication,
Messing With Telemarketers, shows why
it's better to get even.
After a friend played a horrible prank on author Haven
Riney—signing him up for every "Go back to school!" college
recruiting form they could find—he realized that the best way to deal with
pesky callers who wouldn't leave him alone was to waste their time instead. The
recruiters sold Riney's information to two companies, and they sold it to two companies, and so on, and so on, and so on...
Riney began receiving between fifty and a hundred phone
calls a day. "I put my number on the Do Not Call List. Still got the calls,"
he recalls. "I told them to put me on their Do Not Call List. Still get
the calls. I yelled, I screamed, I begged, I pleaded... all to no avail.
Finally, I lost it, and just started screwing with them to see how far I could
get."
The answer, he discovered, was often "quite
far." Due to a combination of language barriers and indifference on the
callers' part, Riney noticed that the calls became increasingly entertaining, leaving friends and family members laughing hysterically as they listened to the exchanges. He
posted new entries from time to time on Facebook (facebook.com/messingwithtelemarketers),
amassing a tremendous following, then realized that the next step was to collect
them all in one place for readers to enjoy. Messing
With Telemarketers (tinyurl.com/Hasslein-MWT) is that place.
Riney's lightning-quick wit, sharp comedic timing and
seemingly endless patience culminated in a vast, hilariously off-beat collection
of transcripts. Every call is real, and each is funnier than the last. Messing With Telemarketers is slated for
publication later this year, and will actually make you look forward to your
next telemarketing call so you can practice messing with them, too.
ABOUT HASSLEIN BOOKS
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(hassleinbooks.com) is an independent New York-based publisher co-founded by
Rich Handley and Paul C. Giachetti. The company produces unauthorized
genre-based reference books, including Timeline
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and Total Immersion: The Comprehensive
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