How to deal with telemarketers

Here, download and print a copy of this and keep it by the phone:

anti-telemarketing EGBG counterscript


"But you called me...."

 

I love it, great idea that.

 

Or............

YouTube - The Greatest Prank Call Ever

 

I read an email about several ways you can be annoying-I tried one once. The phone rang and the caller ID said it was a telemarketer. Perchance, I was watching a porno at the time. I just picked up the receiver and left it near the TV. A couple of minutes later I picked it up and listened. The telemarketer was listening in. I just hung up, leaving the telemarketer thinkingthe phone had been knocked off the hook and then just hung up.

I'm not sure which of us was the biggest pervert.

 

Orrrrrrr, you can do what I did and that was to tape the sound of artillery gunfire from several COMBAT episodes and when I get one of those callers, I turn on the recorder with volume on high and let the fun begin. Needless to say, they don't stay online long ;-))

 

I used to work for a company where we frequently rang people about various issues (no, not telemarketing, we always had a legitimate reason to call and it was in the customers interest to listen, still not saying what it was because I'll loose what little respect I had obtained on here). To be honest the best way to annoy our guys and gals was to be very rude, then again, with the job I was doing that generally resulted in a big man appearing at your house and taking your stuff

That said, last time I got a call from a telemarketing person (some phone scam as it turned out) I happenned to be on the range so above the sound of HE rounds going down and COAX ripping up a Yorkshire hillside I explained I was a little busy. He didn't stay on the line either.

 

Thanks that was funny......It reminds me of this

http://www.ww2f.com/279687-post27.html

Seinfeld was brilliant

 

Stefan ya damm bill collector LOL.. I did some telemarketing for 2 days in college... I HATED it.... ROFLMAO.. sold some crazy ass time share condo nonsense... No way could i do it again... id rather go to iraq LOL

 

When my kids were toddlers, I've give the phone to one of them and let the telemarketer talk to them. There were some real interesting conversations that I heard one side of......

tom

 

From 1983 to 1985, while I was in the reserve, I also had a full time job, and a part time job. I would sleep, and sleep hard from 2 a.m. to 10 a.m. I woke up one morning at 8 because somebody was shouting at me through the phone. I then realized that over an unknown span of time I had been talking to some telemarketer in my sleep. Apparently, I had promised him something and he was ticked because I hadn't sent him money.

 

I wasn't a bill collector, I was a reposession agent, there is a difference!

 

I personally just hang up on them. I have no time or patience with telemarketers.

 

Well here in Aussie we get a bucket load of telemarketers calling from India, it is funny when you get an Indian accent and they call themselves Roy, Ralph and Justin.

But my answer to this is once you have established it is an Indian accent, resond in one, i have a very good Indian accent and talk back in one and they quickly hang up.

It's fun.

v.R

 

Aaah yeah, I too get my share of Indians.

I hang up on them too. Nothing personal, just can't stand telemarketers.

 

We get romanian and North African accents. I usually hang up on them, especially because on the phone directory it says I do not want telemarketers to call me and they are worse than spammers. They will ask for the name of the person on the directory even if you are the relative. They ask personnal questions and don't want to talk to you but to him or /her.... not to mention that sometimes the partner has recently died, so their lack of tact really pisses me off.

 

Stefan, heh heh, at least you have access to the real thing regarding the sounds of artillery fire and barrages. I have to settle for Hollywood ;-(

 

I give these people short shrift as well. However, I'm going to try the script. I'll let you know how long I can keep them talking!

Steve W.