When receiving unsoliciting phone calls by telemarketers, many people consistently hung up, don’t bait, and don’t interact. So why don’t telemarketers delete from their databases such phone numbers that don’t lead to any sales or other business benefits?
Maybe the cost of keeping the numbers is so low telemarketers just don’t bother. Or keeping track of what numbers to delete may actually have a cost. Or perhaps telemarketers hope those people will eventually pick up the calls.
Any insight?
Okay. But if a robocaller doesn’t lead to results, it may be programmed to give up on unpromising numbers.
They are going by volume, so the overall successes matter and the reason for why the rest are unsuccessful doesn’t matter.
Phone numbers get reused all the time, so if they pull the number from the pool they miss a possible future opportunity. This is important when lack of success would massively shrink their pool of numbers at no real cost savings to them since they are going for volume anyway.
Basically you are asking from a logical and well intended point of view, but telemarketers are approaching it from a maliciously logical volume method that benefits from stumbling across enough gullible people to make the rest of the volume worth it.
Sure it can be, what I’m trying to say is that there is no financial incentive for it to be though. Programming takes time and money, and there is literally no profit to be had for doing it.
That sounds like it would take effort.
If it calls 30k numbers a day they don’t care about raw volume, just that they still get a return. Leaving them in allows re-engagement or the number possibly going to a new person. If the point is spam all they ever care about is call call call