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How do you handle telemarketers?
Posted on 2/1/15 at 10:16 pm
Posted on 2/1/15 at 10:16 pm
If I'm in a pinch for time, I give them the old "no call list" line.
If it's the weekend and I'm just blowing time I try to take up as much time as possible all while building their hopes that I'm going to buy whatever they're peddling. Had some offer for a $59 cruise yesterday while I was twiddling my thumbs....the guy wound up running four different card numbers and listening to my sob story about my wife leaving me for my brother (all fiction).
What are your go-to strategies?
If it's the weekend and I'm just blowing time I try to take up as much time as possible all while building their hopes that I'm going to buy whatever they're peddling. Had some offer for a $59 cruise yesterday while I was twiddling my thumbs....the guy wound up running four different card numbers and listening to my sob story about my wife leaving me for my brother (all fiction).
What are your go-to strategies?
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Posted on 2/1/15 at 10:18 pm to Upperaltiger06
I typically am courteous and listen for a bit...then tell them that they might as well be spending time on someone that actually might buy what they are selling...
Posted on 2/1/15 at 10:21 pm to Upperaltiger06
I like to say that I'm an old man and could they speak louder, then keep saying "what was that?" or something of that nature. Most catch on quickly and end the call.
Posted on 2/1/15 at 10:22 pm to Upperaltiger06
Hang up.
Posted on 2/1/15 at 10:23 pm to Upperaltiger06
If I am home I will continue with what I was doing, but tell the telemarketer to hang on. Then check in every 30 minutes or so to see if they are still there.
Posted on 2/1/15 at 10:24 pm to Upperaltiger06
I pretend I'm a lonely old lady who needs someone to talk to.
Posted on 2/1/15 at 10:26 pm to NYNolaguy1
If it is a woman I usually make over the top sexual advances towards her. If it's a guy I come up with something but it also usually ends up something sexual in nature.
Posted on 2/1/15 at 10:27 pm to WalkingTurtles
Awkward sexual advances. I like. Going to add that to my recipe.
Posted on 2/1/15 at 10:28 pm to Upperaltiger06
I never answer a call from a number I don't recognize. If it's important they'll leave a message.
As a result of this, I rarely answer our house phone.
As a result of this, I rarely answer our house phone.
Posted on 2/1/15 at 10:28 pm to Upperaltiger06
I was fricking with a guy trying to "give me a government grant but all he needed was my bank account number." By the end, he cursed me out and hung up on me. I wasn't even Rude to him.
Posted on 2/1/15 at 10:30 pm to Upperaltiger06
By getting rid of my landline. They haven't found my cell # yet.
Posted on 2/1/15 at 10:33 pm to Spankum
Just hang up the phone. I'm sure they hate their jobs as much as you hate getting calls from them
Posted on 2/1/15 at 10:40 pm to Upperaltiger06
I speak gibberish and continue incessantly until they hang up. They can't get a word in. 
Posted on 2/1/15 at 10:44 pm to Spankum
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Spankum
How do you handle telemarketers?
I typically am courteous and listen for a bit...then tell them that they might as well be spending time on someone that actually might buy what they are selling...
I'm the same way, they are doing their job whether you like it or not. There are lots of people doing jobs that I dislike much more than telemarketers.
Posted on 2/1/15 at 10:46 pm to Upperaltiger06
Air Horn
Posted on 2/1/15 at 11:01 pm to Upperaltiger06
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What are your go-to strategies?
Get a decent VoIP phone carrier with telemarketer block features and you won't get the calls to begin with.
Posted on 2/1/15 at 11:02 pm to Upperaltiger06
I have no landline, I don't answer numbers I don't have saved in my contacts. If they leave a voicemail, I'll call back, otherwise, nada.
Posted on 2/1/15 at 11:04 pm to Layabout
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VoIP phone carrier
I haven't really understood this. I thought the only real reason for a land line is that the phone lines will often still work if power goes out. With VoIP you lose this, so why not just use a cell?
Posted on 2/1/15 at 11:12 pm to Boats n Hose
"Let me explain to you Skip (or Loretta) what I think you can help me with today. I have found that I really like to put whole raw cucumbers into my anus while I talk to someone on the phone who doesn't know I'm doing it. It makes me very randy to do so. I'm presently naked, I have a cucumber handy and already have a raging erection and, with your permission would like to sing to you my Anal Penetration Lullaby, an original composition which I wrote while I was in prison."
"Your permission to begin singing to you?"
"Your permission to begin singing to you?"
This post was edited on 2/1/15 at 11:13 pm
Posted on 2/1/15 at 11:32 pm to Upperaltiger06
I say no thank you and hang up.
Why would you dick around somebody who already has a shitty job?
Why would you dick around somebody who already has a shitty job?
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