When telemarketers call

How do you respond to them?

I hate being an asshole to them so I usually just give them my best pathetic little girl voice and tell them "Mommy's not home". It works really well.

 

I hang up

 

i just put down the phone and walk away and let them talk

 

I talk to them, asking them about their life, their family, their goals, and ambitions... changing the topic everytime they try to talk about the product they are selling.

 

They always ask me if my mom or dad are home too and I just go with it.

 

I interrupt and ask what they are selling and if they come clean I apologize and tell them they are wasting their as well as my time. If their aim is to get me in a good mood to loosen my wallet strings (usually telling me I've won some wonderful prize) then as far as I'm concerned they are trying to scam me and time permitting, I string them along, acting excited and waste as much of their time as possible... playing along; ordering the magazines or agreeing to the time share or whatever... then when they go to close the deal and get credit card info I say no, just send me a bill and I'll mail them a check. Pisses them off every time.

 

Depends on the call, what type...

I usually just hang up. Sometimes I'll get a case of the ass and bitch.

 

I detail the benefits of being a Jehovah Witness.

 

I have not gotten a call from a telemarketer for over six years. When I used to get them though I would be nice and polite but let them know I didn't wanna waste their time and the answer was a no..... if they went to rebuttal, I'd let them and just say "no thanks" again and then say I had to go. (I know a lot of places people have to rebuttal to keep their jobs and everyone's gotta eat)

 

I do understand the need to put food on one's table- that is why I'm very polite to legitimate telemarketers. It's the scammers who operate by first trying to jerk a good mood out of me by pretending I've won something-- appealing to a presumed greed facet when I go into waste-their-time mode.

It has been a few years for telemarketers though I do seem to get repeated calls from people taking marketing surveys. For now they get a polite if abrupt cut off.

 

How?

 

"no thank you please take me of fyour phone list"

sometimes with a 'better luck next time" if theyre nice/polite. and sometimes ruder when they keept rying to push afer ive said no and tak me off your list

 

https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx

 

Lace... well, first I got on the national do not call list. (yeah that^) Some people say it didn't work for them but it worked for me. *shrugs* Then I got rid of my landline for just a cell phone so that's another reason....

Stinkfoot... Oh yeah, I know the type of telemarketers you are talking about. That's really annoying and shady there.

 

so...


...want to have phone sex?

 

Interesting, Anna--for some reason I thought the do not call list was only for cell phones! I guess I hadn't given it much thought. I'm going to that site right now and signing my land line up (thanks for the link Posthumous).

 

http://howtoprankatelemarketer.ytmnd.com/

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It may not work as well for a landline, but I've given up on landlines completely and only use a cellphone. I hardly ever get a telemarketer, but I hang up on any that do.

 

I've handled it numerous ways. A few times (if they let me) I've kinda just gave them a break by bullshitting with them about music, movies, etc. etc. I've done all kinds of pranks, but I've been on the 'no call list' for a few years so I can't remember any of them.

The only one I can remember is......When they ask the usual :

"Hi Mr/Ms. So and so, how are you doing today?"
"Well since you asked...terrible. ABSOLUTELY terrible. When I woke up this morning my dog was dead on my porch, slaughtered. There was a note saying that I'm next if I don't leave $10,000 dollars in my mail box next tuesday. I am severely deppressed and the last living family member I have died a week ago. I don't have any friends, my body is covered in worts and I can't even reach my penis because my arms are so short."

lol, I don't think it went exactly like that but you get the point.....just keep going on and on about how miserable your life is.

 

^Hehe, that's pretty good.