> If it didn't work, people wouldn't still be doing it.

The same can be said for all sorts of activities, from the illegal and unethical to the mundane.

Although, to be fair, you're right. Which is why I actively make it my goal to make doing cold sales outreach more costly to the companies doing it than if they had done nothing at all. A BDR cold emailing me is a pretty good way to make sure your software does not get considered by my organization, and I'm very likely going to cost their privacy/compliance team more time than they spent contacting me unwantedly in the first place.

I wish BDR's and AE's could just answer the important questions I have for them in the first call. I have wasted countless hours of my life sitting in sales meetings, when my wallet is already open.

It really shouldn't be that hard, I even would do the work of "hey this is our expected usage, I have already adjusted for an overage buffer, how much?".

> I'm very likely going to cost their privacy/compliance team…time

What might this look like for you?

(I don’t cold email except thanks or say questions btw, but I am curious!)