how do you deal with telemarketers man?

lolz, when they try to sell me stuff i just kinda go along with it, my brother did it the best one time though hes all like yeah sure guy ill buy (i forget what) just let me talk with my girl, ya im pretty whipped, etc and he just carried on llike that. it was funny. either that or i tell them that their work means nothing to the world except to wake me up before im late for dinner...

 

As Soon As They Identify Their Mission, I Hang Up.

If They Call Again, I Ask To Speak To Their Supervisor, And Demand They

Remove My Number From Their Computer Records.

Nearly All Comply With My Polite Request...



Cheers Glen.

 

If I have time to fuck with them I'll just set the phone down and say "yeah" or "okay" every 10 seconds or so until they give up. Or I'll tell them to hold on a minute and make sex noises.

Some funny excuses to hang up immediately include telling them you're at your wife and child's funeral. Or you're hiding in your closet cause your husband/wife/parent is drunk and trying beat you up.

I look forward to telemarketers calling, the possibilities are endless, although lately it's mostly been bill collectors

 

I can't remember which comedian it was, but his advice was to ask them a lot of personal questions and make it to where they don't have a chance to even tell you about what they are selling.

Did you have a good day?
How are your kids?
What did you have for lunch?
....

hahaha fuck 'em

 

I don't answer the phone when I see the 1-800 numbers...

 

I put my phone number on a do no call register. End game.

 

say "you're call is in a que, and will be dealt with shortly", put some muzak on for them to listen to...... then go and watch a movie

 

I must say I usually cut em off before they get the first sentence out and typically just say something like 'no, sorry, not interested, see ya', ..and hang up before they can get another word in.

Sometimes they ring up and ask for me by name (obv lifted off databases somewhere) and I just tell them nope, Ivana's not home/ she does not live here anymore, ... stuff like that. Sometimes I use the she is not home one when bill companies are hassling me and I cant be bothered with them right that min.

The one that floored me most tho, was a telemarketer who did get a min of my time asking if I could give them a handful of my friends phone numbers so they could try their crap on them instead. I was like WTF?, you have gotta be joking! Not happening!

 

I answer the phone, and prentend I have bad connetion. or I answer and keep them on the phone without saying anything, I wait till they get fed up and hang the phone up

 

I send my messenger pigeon to their home when they are eating their dinner, with a note that reads:

I HAVE JUST BOUGHT UR SILENCE, ENJOY MY WRATH.

the pigeon then begins to peck his eyes and throat clean out.

 

I just hang up. Unless I'm recording the convo, or have the call on speaker phone I'm not going to sit and listen to his proposition. Not only am I wasting his time, but mine as well.

Fuck that.

 

Legitimate calls get a polite but abrupt end- sketchy calls-- telling me I won something or somesuch to get me to sign up for something get fucked with.... I've placed hundreds of dollars in magazine subscriptions while faking excitement with the time share I had just "won" and when the time came to harvest my credit card information I said, "no, just bill me... I'll pay by cashier's check".

You could hear the excitement drain out of the voice on the other end.

 

I am usually polite for the first few times saying, no thank you, I am not interested, no thank you but eventually I just hang up as they don't stop.