Fun with Telemarketers

Fun with telemarketers is ok. BUT to get off the call list is easy. When they call just ask in a nice way to be removed from the list. . BUT if you are an a** they can punch one of several keys to

1. call back at a certain time. Such as 11 pm or some other odd hour as cust is day sleeper.
2.call back per customer
3. remove  you from list.
and several others they can use to annoy you with. I just tell them  that they called at a very bad time as we are having a wake for them now.
You will be removed .
It takes about 12 weeks to be removed from the  call list.

My bf calls telemarketers that call us multiple times and tie up their phone lines over and over with bull. Sometimes he pretends he's interested, sometimes he just demands a do not call policy. Its a good way to find out how many people are running these baloney places and getting names. I think anyone who gets calls like this call back several times and spam them!

Yeah when I worked as a telemarketer, if I was talking to a jerk I would just schedule them to get a phone call at 11:00 pm.  Or I would schedule them to get called again in 15 minutes.  I love playing with all the people that try to give me crap.  I would give it right back to the customer and then we would all laugh about it in our office.  Same thing if somebody would leave me on the line for a while.  Just schedule them to get a callback in 15 minutes.

I got phone calls from an infamous number: 866-463-3021. Went through many pangs to stop them, waiting endlessly on hold with chase to put my name on the "no contact" list, registered with every no call agency--no results.  Until finally, when they called the last time, I got DEMONIC on the phone. Used a frightening voice and yelled in a psychotic fashion repeating "Who do you represent?" in the most disturbing voice I could make. I even scared myself. They never called back. Its good for them they didn't because my next tactic would be pornographic suggestions, no matter the gender of the caller on the other side--man, woman, animal, mineral. I'm ready to suggest mutual participation in some seriously disgusting activities to these phone spammers to get them to stop calling me. But it looks as if demonic voices work fine. I guess you just need to know how to get your number on the REAL no call list.

is there a way to block these calls Im getting this call 2 to 3 times a day 1-800-331-6527 or can everyone call it if it cost them mony. thanks a really mad mom

I just tell them I spent all my money on the last telemarketer and ask them if they want to talk about it it always leaves them speechless.....lol

i pretend i speak another language and keep talking jibberish like ja do isha ma see dae no? and pretend like im very interested and try to keep them on the phone as long as i can till they go nuts especially when it sounds like some illegal immigrant who doesnt have the decency to learn the english language before calling me

Great UTube video and lesson on how to deal with these people, if you have some extra time. I had a telemarketer for "Girls Gone Wild" call me and say they got my name because I dealt with them, which was a lie. So, I got mad on a subsequent call (there were many, many calls and ignoring them did  not help). My conversation was a loooooong story about how I had been in prison (lie) for many years and then had decided to change my life around and not watch porn. This went on for awhile and at the end I told him that my new job was as a Catholic Priest.  Click!  He was gone and I wasted ten minutes or more of his time.

This works if you have the time.  By the way, the owner (multi-millionair of the company producing "Girls Gone Wild" is in prison, the last I heard. Looks like he cannot prove that the girls were all consenting to the photography and were over eighteen years of age.

Anybody besides me find it ironic that someone claiming to be Peter Frampton, (who has the smallest willy in rock and roll according to some of the more famous groupies of the era) is trying to call you out about unsuccessful hookups?  Sounds like the voice of experience to me.

Telemarketers are valid members of any company's sales force.  If any of you knew anything about business you would already be aware of this.  Every single company with a clue has people making outbound calls, even residential if the that's what their selling.  You're not 'hurting' the company at all by screwing with a telemarketer, you're just giving some working person a hard time to no effect.  Why don't you give the drive-thru person at McDonald's a hard time the next time they ask if you want to Super Size it?  In your minds I guess this would mean sticking it to McDonald's.  The Do Not Call List is a complete joke.  There are several ways such as going to specific web sites sponsored by companies that will automatically put you back on their call list even if you requested to be removed.  Sounds to me like a bunch of nobodies want to 'get even' with large corporations by futily giving working people like themselves the run around.

Whenever I see a telemarketer or "unknown" on caller ID. I just click the answer button on the cordless phone and set it right in front of the stereo speaker, so whether it's jazz, or classical, or dance, or rock, or TV that's on the stereo at that time, that's what the caller hears.  

Like eternal music-on-hold!  

Usually when I check back in 5-10 minutes, they've hung up and there's a dail tone or dead line on the other end.

Best thing to do when they call you at dinner is to say:

I know how important this call is to you so give my your home phone number so I can call you back at home during dinner and talk to you."

They hang up every time.

I'm 53, the head of the house. They always ask for "mr. plonker" I say "S**t, you must want my dad. I'll go get him". I leave the phone off the hook and go away shouting dad! Dad! decreasing the volume of my shouts the further i get from the phone. Then I "shout" in a deeper voice "who the furk is it son?" and i stomp back to the phone, breathing hard, and say "Who shall I say is calling?" They tell me and I shout their name. But by now, "dad" has gone out to the garden to start doing yard work. A very faint yell of "what the furk do they want?" then a lot of stomping back to the phone and I breathlessly ask "what is it you would like to speak to him about?"....
and on it goes..
the longest i had one waiting was 45 minutes.. i even took one of my dogs for a walk while i was looking for my dad.. the neighbors thought I had gone crazy walking down the sidewalk "shouting" dad where are you in my cordless phone.. until I explained.
the challenge is on .. can you beat 45 minutes?