Fun with Telemarketers

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Rating: +6

Fast Eddie - 21 Jun 2007

EXCELLENT!! Poor stupid Telemarketer. Upstaged by a customer.
Here is a ploy that I use when they call. I act all interested and stuff, and ask them to hold on one moment, while I go get a pencil and paper. Then I set the phone down, walk away, and go back to watching TV, Reading, or just watching the traffic out the window go by. All the while, the Telemarketer, thinking he or she has just got another sale, waits and waits and waits for you to come back to the phone to continue the conversation. Works like a Charm!!

Rating: +1

Cush - 29 Nov 2007

I do that too only about every 6 or 7 minutes I get back on the phone and ask them to hold on for just another second... heehee

Rating: +1

VAHuntress - 19 Feb 2008

Yep - that definitely works but please try - coming back to the phone only to say I have paper but no pencil hold on I'll be right back - then come back acting like your writing and the pencil breaks; hold on

Only if you have the time - they will sulre yput you on their do no call list - their pranksters

Rating: +5

Billdozer - 15 Dec 2007

I use this one also. They usally ask for someone spicific and I ask them to hold while I find them. Then I continue to do what ever it was I was doing when they called. Then I pick up the phone and tell them to hold on I'm still looking without giving them a chance to say anything. I've had them hold like 3 times. Eventually I tell the caller I couldn't find them, and have a nice day.

The other one I use with telemarketers is by asking who they are again. Then I tell them I am on the Do Not Call list and I have informed them of that before when they called. They will say they have not called before. I again ask who they are, and pretend I am going through a list I keep of marketers that have called. As they try to talk, I tell them hold it, hold it, yes I see you on my list, who did you say you are again? Yes, Yes I see you called me on a previous date, and since you are calling me again after I have ask you not to, I can sue you for $1,200.00. Then I start asking them questions so that my lawer can get in touch with them and acting all happy and telling them what I'm going to do with the money. Have Fun!!!

Rating: +2

jett - 7 Jan 2008

This is funny. I put the number 1(800)943-3022 in my search and
then was allowed to complain about them. I think if we all did this
is would end up costing them more than it's worth.
The fine, if you are on the "No Not Call" list is $11,000 if they call you
and you've already told them to stop. Funny video!!! Good job. I love how dancing leads to teen pregnancy comment!
caller unknown 1 (800)943-3022
came in at:
01/07/2008 at 10:10am
01/04/2008 at 10:03 am
01/03/2008 at 10:10 am
And these are just the phone records my phone has recently
stored. This does not indicate the TOTAL calls and interruptions
I've had from this caller.
I'm on the do not call list as well.
So much for that. How do you pursue and follow up on the abuse of the
callers? I sure would like conformation.
I also like your validation code-how'd you do that?

Rating: 0

Ken Conrad - 12 Sep 2008

As if the telemarketer gives a hoot about being fined!
Come on, you're only fooling yourself.

Rating: +1

fred - 17 Feb 2008

sorry they will just call you back. Ask them to put you on the do not call list and don't give your number out anymore to catalogs and companies that do telemarketing.

Rating: +2

Hope - 29 Mar 2008

I have never given my number to any company. I got this number when I moved here in July and didn't have a land line previously. I don't use catalogs and I don't do any business by phone. My number is on the DNC list. What is being done is shady and illegal and it is so for a reason. Recordings are not supposed to be making unsolicited calls and when asked to not be called, and this applies to all businesses, they are not legally supposed to call you.
The people blaming those who are just sitting in their homes to support those who are breaking the law are pathetic.

Rating: 0

David - 6 Mar 2008

That's what I do, and it works fabulously! Just sound excited, say "Oh, can you hang on a sec?" and put the phone down on the table without hanging up. I've even managed to come back more than 10 minutes later, say "Are you still there?" and get a "Yes" response! I then just said, "OK, great, can you hold on for just another minute?" and I put the phone down again and went back to cooking or whatever. After a while, he hung up. Poor sod. NOT!

(It helps that both my wife and I have difficult last names to pronounce, so when we get calls asking for some incorrect pronunciation, we know it's someone who doesn't know us. And in case you're wondering, we're in Canada, where people can keep their original last names when they get married.)

Rating: 0

Another Dave - 30 Mar 2008

We also have unusual names and can spot a telemarketer by the way they try to pronounce the name.

Rating: 0

itsjustme - 30 Jun 2007

I have fun with the women by asking them what color panties they have.
Funny they don't want to talk after that.

With the men - most of them are not born here, speak good English type people. I ask them to please speak English because I can't understand the language they are talking.

Sometimes I just play deaf and keep making them repeat themselves.

Most of the time I tell them to send me the information in the mail because I do not do any buisness over the phone and if you have my number then you must have my address - see ya later bye.

Rating: +7

Jim - 4 Oct 2007

"With the men - most of them are not born here, speak good English type people."

Is that English?

Rating: 0

Rev - 8 Jan 2008

no, but its at least understandable.... friggin "you buy now!" jeez, thats like the only thing i understand. the rest is all jibberish to me, and im semi literate in japanese... but wow... lol

Rating: +3

pilarlllorona - 6 Jul 2007

that was brilliant, i can't believe the telemarketer stayed on the phone, i wonder if he quit his job after that. despite the silliness of what the guy said, there was a fine moral lesson, about thinking for yourself, and just b/c something may be doing good it could also support a lot that is not.

Rating: -1

David C.B. - 7 Jul 2007

Superb. We'll never know what the telemarketer did after the call ended--perhaps he did quit. More likely, he hung up, cursed like Hell, and then told his boss that he could not find any wording on his script to answer the callee.

Rating: +3

Busy - 10 Jul 2007

I tell these jerks to give me their number & i will call them back, i'm BUSY having sex. Works like a charm and they hang up.

Rating: -1

nobodyz - 13 Jul 2007

GREAT video! Great job with the telemarketer too. Hey, a little more info for fun and education:

American Association of State Troopers
http://www.statetroopers.org/index.php?do=telemarketing.php

"This page is currently under construction."

Rating: +6

nobodyz - 13 Jul 2007

Sorry to be back so quick, but just read this:
"29 Jun 2007

Today the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation has passed S. 704, a bill that would make it a crime to spoof caller ID. Dubbed the "Truth in Caller ID Act of 2007," the bill would outlaw causing "any caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information" via "any telecommunications service or IP-enabled voice service." Law enforcement is exempted from the rule."

It's one of the links on this page to the right. Problem is, "law enforcement" i.e. "American Association of State Troopers" is exempt. Why would it be exempt to having to abide the law and not SPOOF ID? Seems like they'd be the first to obey that law.

Rating: +4

Rob Smalls - 17 Jul 2007

Law enforcement would be exempt for investigative purposes, like stings, drug busts, informants, etc. The "American Association of State Troopers" is not a law enforcement agency, just a fraternal order, so the rule wouldn't apply. It would be like saying the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is another branch of the military.

Rating: 0

Chip Pidwinkle - 13 Jul 2007

Brilliant!

I rarely get calls at home, usually I just get some recording leaving the last half of a message on the voice mail. that's no fun. can't mess with anyone. I get more people coming to the door than calling. I just don't go to the door. I'm thinking of mounting a camera and doing goofy things to them.

son of a... just got another call from those idiots at 3052283727

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