Fun with Telemarketers

funny - I wish I could lead one of those telemarketers around and waste their time as good as he did!

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!!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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

Here's one for you guys... My son use to beat me to the phone / especially seeing the ID and it being a Telemarketer. Well when he was about 12 my son kept a telemarketer on the phone for over an hour, the guy was trying to convince him to purchase a vacation package; and my son told him, the only way he could afford to buy the vacation package that was being offered is if he sold enough magazines that week to pay the $99 dollars. This telemarketer was so stupid, not realizing it was an 12 year old boy and my son convinced the caller to buy 10 magazines from him; including but not limited to  "Womens Magazines" "Golf" "Parenting Magazines" and a made up magazine name called "Phone Calls For Idoits!" I kept the recording for years' and we had huge laughs over it -- of course, now my son is 18 and have defined his telemarketing call skills... My son has made a hobby of making telemarketers completely crazy...

I observed an associate handle a telemarketer thusly,

"Didn't we talk about this yesterday?"

TM: "Uh - no ma'am I didn't call you yesterday"

"So are you calling me a liar?"

TM: Click

The associate says it works every time.

I don't get many calls anymore, but my favorite is saying 'hang on' and setting the phone down next to the tv for 10 minutes, then picking it back up and saying 'are you still there?  oh, good, hang on' and setting it back down.  They are getting less patient, but they used to be told not to hang up on a customer, and would 'hold on' for 30 minutes before disconnecting.

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.

A dandy little computer program called the "Telecrapper 2000" is making the rounds:

http://www.pagerealm.com/tc2k/

This program is hilarious.  It causes your computer to answer the phone and carry on a virtual conversation with an unsuspecting telemarketer.

It uses the computer's sound card to engage the telemarketer in useless conversation, and it can be quite entertaining to see just how long a telemarketer will talk to your machine before they finally figure out they are getting absolutely nowhere.  

There is a list of zipped .wav files on his site.  If you just wanna hear how some of these conversations go, you can download and play a few.

They left me in stitches.

This the work of  comic Jim Florentine (of Howard Stern fame), he rolls this chick back and forth like a tape recorder. Good stuff and clean! I have used variations of this and it works so damn well it makes me want to wet my pants.

http://www.jimflorentine.com/mp3s/no-no.mp3