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Seattle Times telemarketer gets punked

Posted by Cory Bergman on June 18, 2007

Blogger and technologist Chris Pirillo hosts a live internet talk show here in Seattle. So imagine Chris’ delight when a Seattle Times telemarketer unknowingly called the show trying to sell a subscription to the dead tree version of the newspaper (which happens to come bundled with an “e-edition”). As the kids say these days, hilarity ensued…

  • http://discreet_chaos.livejournal.com discreet_chaos

    That was painful to watch/hear and not once did the idiot point-out that 4 x .99 is less than $5, just as 52 x .99 is less than $60.

  • Don Day

    “This is better than Google. It’s the complete newspaper.”

    Better than Google????? Sign me up!!!!

  • http://www.ktvz.com Barney Lerten

    Thanks for the laughs AND for letting me know Chris is still esconced in Seattle and is actually live at this very moment, at the same chair, the same PC, livevideo-chatting, and I got to tell him LR picked up YT’s pickup of his funny skewering of the Times telemarketer lady;-)

  • http://www.lostremote.com Cory

    Cool. I also posted it on CitizenRain.com for Seattleites to read.

  • Rob

    Wow. The complete newspaper anytime you want, without abbreviations and BETTER THAN GOOGLE.

    The Seattle Times is good … but it’s not that good.

    I guess The Seattle Times has outsourced its telemarketers to Puyallup, huh?

  • Amanda

    pu-what-up??

    (sorry I used to live there)

  • Anonymous

    Funny stuff, but you know Washington is a two-party consent state, right? That means recording someone’s voice without them knowing is against the law….

  • Bo

    Funny stuff, but you know Washington is a two-party consent state, right? That means recording someone’s voice without them knowing is against the law….

  • Swift Loris

    Why does he keep saying “American Online”? Is that just part of his act to lead on the telemarketer, or what?

  • http://www.lostremote.com Cory

    Bo, I thought about that, too. But she’s the one that placed the call, and there’s no way he could’ve screened it beforehand, because she dialed a live call-in number — just like calling a radio station. I think he would win hands-down in court, especially if he asked for a jury trial.

  • Don Day

    And was he technically recording it at the time of the call? I get the impression (from reading the comments scrolling in the video), that a fan recorded this. The comments are actually quite funny (kudos to the person who pointed out that 99 cents a week doesn’t add up to four dollars a month…)

  • http://chris.pirillo.com/ Chris Pirillo

    No, no… you missed it…

    This one isn\’t Seattle-related, but it\’s even funnier (and a lot more NSFW):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jft39qmKAcE

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