Fucking Telemarkerters

[aaron697]

How do you handle them?

I tend to hang up while they are in mid sentence.

 

[Wizard]

I tell them I'm not intrested and hang up before they can say anymore............

 

[Willing and Unsure]

if they're offering me a credit card, I tell them my religion doesnt allow me to believe in plastic. if they're trying to get me to enter a contest or do something with paper, I tell them I dont believe in paper. The responses you get are hysterically funny cuz they never seem to get it.

 

[AzureAngel]

I always tell them that the person they're calling for isn't here.

 

[Lust Engine]

With the dolts that call, I'll let them finish their spiel then hit them with my well practiced "I'm-sorry-not-interested-please-take-my-name-off-of-your-calling-list-NOW!" and promptly hang up. I guess legally they have to remove your name from their list.

Not sure if anyone else here gets these faxed newsletters stating that you've won fabulous vacations or great stock tips, but for those they usually have a fax number & you're supposed to fax them back with your number in order to have your number removed. Well, since it's also a 1-800 number to call them back, I've made a continuous ribbon with a request to stop faxing me their crap and send it thru for about half an hour or so late at night.

Since those bastards are wasting my fax paper, I figured I'd return the favor -in spades and make them pay for the phone call too.

 

[Lasher]

Caller ID. If I don't know who's on the line I don't answer the phone.

 

[RudeNastyAssBitch]

After I Answer The Phone

"Freddie's Fish Fry!, May I Help You?"

They Usually Apologize For Having The Wrong Number

Otherwise, I Normally Listen To What They Have Ta Say! People Are Way Too Ready To Be An Asshole To Some Poor Shmuck Making A Dime, And I Used Ta Do It Myself, So I Try To Be Pleasant, Funny And Short.

Get The Fuck Over It And Be Nice Motherfucker! LOL

 

[aaron697]

I knew it

There would be an ex-telemarketer here. I am never rude....never.

A

 

[Tantanah]

I have privacy director and caller ID. Works very well.

 

[RudeNastyAssBitch]

Re: I knew it

There would be an ex-telemarketer here. I am never rude....never.

A

I'm Happy That You Are Not Rude From The Mouth Of The Rude! LOL

 

[aaron697]

Nicest Motherfucker

"Hand me my wallet"

"How do I know which is yours?"

"Its the one that says Nice MuthaFucka on it Motherfucker"

 

[takingchances42]

Not sure if anyone else here gets these faxed newsletters stating that you've won fabulous vacations or great stock tips, but for those they usually have a fax number & you're supposed to fax them back with your number in order to have your number removed. Well, since it's also a 1-800 number to call them back, I've made a continuous ribbon with a request to stop faxing me their crap and send it thru for about half an hour or so late at night.

Since those bastards are wasting my fax paper, I figured I'd return the favor -in spades and make them pay for the phone call too.

Oh Shit! Stop before it is too late!

I get those too. Mostly because I faxed one of those place's 800 numbers to get off their list. They not only didn't remove me, they promptly sold my number to every other fax spammer they could find...

Bastards is way too kind -- they are scum of the earth.

 

[intrigued]

Its called an answering machine and caller ID.

 

[takingchances42]

Re: After I Answer The Phone

Otherwise, I Normally Listen To What They Have Ta Say! People Are Way Too Ready To Be An Asshole To Some Poor Shmuck Making A Dime, And I Used Ta Do It Myself, So I Try To Be Pleasant, Funny And Short.

Get The Fuck Over It And Be Nice Motherfucker! LOL

Being a Telemarketer means being paid to be a Professional Asshole. Annoying other people for a living. Interrupting their lives, making them drop what they are doing to answer the phone or check the caller ID. I am nice to people in general. Professional Assholes, who chose to get paid to annoy me and attempt to get at my wallet deserve no ordinary human courtesy.

Actually the nicest thing you can do to one is hang up with hardly a word. That way they are not wasting their time, and can move on to trying to make their sales quota with the next poor schmuck they harrass.

Glad to hear you have moved up being pond scum to being a rude, nasty ass bitch, shows there is hope for all of us...

 

[HeavyStick]

I put the cordless away and just let them talk on the corded phone that is nicely placed in between the cushions... I check it about every 2-5 minutes

 

[intrigued]

My God, aaron, your av! Thats it! I am on my way to your thread this moment!

 

[TallOne]

I just screen calls with the answering machine, no point in paying for caller id and such. My fiancee likes to answer them though. She always ends up asking them what color panties they're wearing. It's hilarious.

 

[DéjàNu]

I always say that I already have it (sometime I dont even know what they sold)... they hang up real fast *lol*

 

[deuce]

i used to do it, but never selling over the phone. market research was my area. i dont like selling over the phone, because i dont know who i am speaking to. i did door to door for a while, and i was terible at that, because if someone said no, i was " ok, no problem. Thanks for your time" i just dont have the killer instinct i guess. but if they arnt selling, be nice, the are earning a living. if they are selling, be firm.

 

[LukkyKnight]

How do you handle them?

I tend to hang up while they are in mid sentence.

Fucking's just going to encourage them, aaron, you really need to find a more aversive response. I don't usually give them as much grief as I used to, but I do find the practice objectionable.

 

[Guest]

i tell them the purson that they are calling is ded he or she died last week t.u. and hang up