What do you do when a telemarketer calls?
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Lead them on for at least 10 minutes, come up with an excuse to end the call when I get board (like a military recruiter, tell them I have diabetes). Then I tell them to put me on the no call list
I used to get these letters from Columbia house video club (I bought a few from them once) but it got to the point of harassment from them so I called them up once and told them that I had died and their constant letters were bringing up horrible memories. No more letters from them.
Another time I mailed 3 pounds of gravel to a credit card company who foolishly provided a pre-paid envelope with their junk mail. Luckily the post office has to deliver whatever has postage on it, needless to say I was taken off their mailing list. I couldn't find a cinder block so I had to take what was handy.
As for telemarketers, I just give them to my 7 year old daughter to talk to if she's around when they call
Another time I mailed 3 pounds of gravel to a credit card company who foolishly provided a pre-paid envelope with their junk mail. Luckily the post office has to deliver whatever has postage on it, needless to say I was taken off their mailing list. I couldn't find a cinder block so I had to take what was handy.
As for telemarketers, I just give them to my 7 year old daughter to talk to if she's around when they call
Option A: I pretend I'm mentally insaine.
Option B: I speak in a worse accent than them (If they sound like they are in an indian call center)
Option 3 (I realise this is a 3): I pretend there is a retarded fight going on, and I am an underpaid farmworker missing 2 teeth, and making up several odd scenarios
Option Q: I just stay completely silent, and I never break.
Option B: I speak in a worse accent than them (If they sound like they are in an indian call center)
Option 3 (I realise this is a 3): I pretend there is a retarded fight going on, and I am an underpaid farmworker missing 2 teeth, and making up several odd scenarios
Option Q: I just stay completely silent, and I never break.
As someone that used to be a telemarketer (we all do things we don't enjoy for money...)
1. I wouldn't stay on the line with someone if they were wasting my time, I could and would hang up on you.
2. Rude people were called back, often.
3. Adding your number to the DNC list made it easier for us to weed out those who weren't smart enough to NOT buy anything.
4. I flirt back
5. While you put me on speaker phone I'd jump off the script and start trying to sell you my shoes and hang up when you wouldn't buy them
We're not all evil people, we just need money.
1. I wouldn't stay on the line with someone if they were wasting my time, I could and would hang up on you.
2. Rude people were called back, often.
3. Adding your number to the DNC list made it easier for us to weed out those who weren't smart enough to NOT buy anything.
4. I flirt back
5. While you put me on speaker phone I'd jump off the script and start trying to sell you my shoes and hang up when you wouldn't buy them
We're not all evil people, we just need money.
I've rick-rolled them, I've copied everything that they've said, I've popped balloons to make it sound like I've been shot, my friend and I made it seem like I was holding someone hostage and he happened to attempt escape when the telemarketer called, I've written down their phone number and solicited them off-and-on for three days, I've attempted to order fast-food from them, I've pretended to be a worker in a fast-food restaurant who has no idea that he's being solicited,I'e yelled in a bizarre accident "give me back my daughter!", and I've pretended to be a worker in a psychiatric hotline. Also, one of my friends pretended to be a phone sex operator.
I'd also say that people who fight back against that aren't evil either. They just hated being called. If enough employees hate the job and quit, perhaps the company will stop wasting time and money on something that is driving people away.NonyaZ said:
Also, did anyone ever buy anything from you then? Because most everyone I know claims not to have bought anything from a telemarketer, and also claims they never will.
Again, the job itself being crappy and the fact that you need the money does not make you immune to criticism, critique, or negative response from people. Nor is the phrase "I'm only doing my job".somonels said:
Yes, if a person calls you up and offers you something, saying ?Go f*** yourself? is a bit rude. But it is justified, in my mind, if said person persists after you politely say ?No?. Which almost all the telemarketers I have dealt with do.
2 things
Either I respond to their questions... in latin. If they don't hang up I say "Nullam tempus euismod" and hang up
Or I make it sound like a answering machine recording saying "Hello you've reached the (any uncommon last name) residence, please leave a message after the click" Then I hang up.
Either I respond to their questions... in latin. If they don't hang up I say "Nullam tempus euismod" and hang up
Or I make it sound like a answering machine recording saying "Hello you've reached the (any uncommon last name) residence, please leave a message after the click" Then I hang up.
Relatively simple for me:
Pick up phone.
Listen to see who's on the other end.
If it's someone I don't know or care about, immediately hang up and go back to my life.
I'll tell some people they have the wrong number once, afterwards I just click my phone (open it about halfway then let it shut). It works, they do stop calling you eventually.
Pick up phone.
Listen to see who's on the other end.
If it's someone I don't know or care about, immediately hang up and go back to my life.
I'll tell some people they have the wrong number once, afterwards I just click my phone (open it about halfway then let it shut). It works, they do stop calling you eventually.
I go one of two routes:
1ne : Listen, I'm having dinner. Can you give me your number and I'll call you back?
2wo : You call again, and I'll sue your ass.
1ne : Listen, I'm having dinner. Can you give me your number and I'll call you back?
2wo : You call again, and I'll sue your ass.
I just say "hold on a minute," then put the phone down. they usualy catch on after about 5 minutes.
They never call back.
They never call back.
People pick up the phone for telemarketers? I see the 1-800 on the caller id and just ignore it.
You deserve a medal for your actions.redisforever said:
On topic;
Usually say I'm not interested, or slam the phone down if I'm annoyed. More often now I just don't bother answering the phone. I work nights and can't be bothered now running down the stairs half asleep in the middle of the day to answer the phone to some telemarketer trying to sell a BT phone line or whatever. However reading this thread is giving me some ideas, I look forawrd to the next call so I can have some fun of my own
I've been in their position (sadly) so I tend to not be a total dick to them as I've had it all myself. Usually I say I'm busy or in the middle of something and hang up.
Usually the person calling doesn't want to speak to me that much either but a job is a job and it's what they have to do.
Usually the person calling doesn't want to speak to me that much either but a job is a job and it's what they have to do.