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"[A] guide to the shifty, shady shadow land on the edge of American capitalism." - Chicago Reader "Stevenson offers an insider's view of the organization of fraud, the duality of marks--those doing the phoning and those on the other end of the receiver--and the staging, manipulation, and concealment devices used by those putting up the store. This is a fine contribution to the sociology of deviance, occupations, and fieldwork." - Robert R. Faulkner, author of The Social Organization of Conspiracy Review from Earlier Edition "Here is an uncommon work of independent scholarship... [It] has won academic praise for its rare investigation of disreputable phone sales shops... [Stevenson's] intense research has opened vistas into a fascinating netherworld of telephone pitchmen." - Gary Grass, Wisconsin Lawyer
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Sure to make you think twice before responding to the next telephone sales call you receive, this volume explores why telephone boiler rooms and other scams thrive and how fraudulent techniques and deception migrate to and from conventional businesses. "The Boiler Room and Other Telephone Sales Scams" is grounded in the nine years Robert Stevenson spent working covertly as a 'participant-observer' in telephone rooms (the ethical implications of which he discusses in an epilogue). As Stevenson details boiler room hierarchy, you'll learn why all boilers are telephone salesmen but not all telephone salesmen are boilers.You'll read about the 'heat' rising in rooms where experienced pitchmen use tried-and-true manipulative techniques to overcome objections to sales. And you'll marvel at Stevenson's insider knowledge of product houses, service shops, and other aspects of a major industry in which both employees and customers are in daily peril - the former of losing their jobs and the latter of losing their money. "The Boiler Room and Other Telephone Sales Scams" is required reading for anyone who's ever picked up a telephone and been asked to buy a product or a service. It's also an invaluable study of a widespread form of deviance and occupational crime, essential reading for students of criminology and the sociology of occupations.
"[A] guide to the shifty, shady shadow land on the edge of American capitalism." - Chicago Reader "Stevenson offers an insider's view of the organization of fraud, the duality of marks--those doing the phoning and those on the other end of the receiver--and the staging, manipulation, and concealment devices used by those putting up the store. This is a fine contribution to the sociology of deviance, occupations, and fieldwork." - Robert R. Faulkner, author of The Social Organization of Conspiracy Review from Earlier Edition "Here is an uncommon work of independent scholarship... [It] has won academic praise for its rare investigation of disreputable phone sales shops... [Stevenson's] intense research has opened vistas into a fascinating netherworld of telephone pitchmen." - Gary Grass, Wisconsin Lawyer
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Sure to make you think twice before responding to the next telephone sales call you receive, this volume explores why telephone boiler rooms and other scams thrive and how fraudulent techniques and deception migrate to and from conventional businesses. "The Boiler Room and Other Telephone Sales Scams" is grounded in the nine years Robert Stevenson spent working covertly as a 'participant-observer' in telephone rooms (the ethical implications of which he discusses in an epilogue). As Stevenson details boiler room hierarchy, you'll learn why all boilers are telephone salesmen but not all telephone salesmen are boilers.You'll read about the 'heat' rising in rooms where experienced pitchmen use tried-and-true manipulative techniques to overcome objections to sales. And you'll marvel at Stevenson's insider knowledge of product houses, service shops, and other aspects of a major industry in which both employees and customers are in daily peril - the former of losing their jobs and the latter of losing their money. "The Boiler Room and Other Telephone Sales Scams" is required reading for anyone who's ever picked up a telephone and been asked to buy a product or a service. It's also an invaluable study of a widespread form of deviance and occupational crime, essential reading for students of criminology and the sociology of occupations.
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