{"id":24761,"date":"2018-10-12T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T01:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=24761"},"modified":"2018-10-12T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T01:31:08","slug":"solar-telemarketer-pests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-telemarketer-pests\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Deal With Solar And Battery Telemarketer Pests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sick of unwanted solar phone calls? Then read our handy guide to dealing with this scourge of modern Australia.<\/p><\/div>\n

Have you ever settled down to enjoy a particularly intense episode of My Little Pony<\/a>1<\/a><\/sup> when you were rudely interrupted by a cold-hearted cold caller trying to sell you a potentially shoddy and possibly overpriced solar power system?\u00a0 If so, you are not alone.\u00a0 Lots of grown men watch My Little Pony.\u00a0 Also, plenty of people get\u00a0called by dodgy solar marketers.<\/p>\n

Solar telemarketers have managed to become real pests.\u00a0 And I’m not just talking about them performing acts that are annoying but legal, like coitus with my first wife.\u00a0 It’s worse than that as many have engaged in illegal activities such as contacting those on the Do Not Call Register or straight out scamming people.\u00a0 So far this year the Australian Communications and Media Authority, or ACMA<\/a>, has received 3,000 complaints about solar cold callers out of a total of 40,000 complaints.\u00a0 That makes them Australia’s number one group for annoying the crap out of people over the phone.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, with the South Australian battery subsidy<\/a> about to get underway, the Victorian solar subsidy<\/a> now in place, and potentially a Victorian battery subsidy starting next year, the number of cold callers flogging solar and\/or battery systems<\/a> seems likely to increase.<\/p>\n

To help people cope with solar cold callers frigid phoning them, in this article I’ll cover:<\/p>\n