When a telemarketer calls I _______ (fill in the blank?

Question

i do one of three things don't answer (i have caller ID)
Answer and when they ask for me hang up
Answer and ask before they even talk to be removed from the list
What do you do?
My mother in law is old and she pretends to answer like she is asleep and "falls asleep on the phone" she fake snores and stuff. They whisper on the other end their coworkers what should i do she is asleep? Really funny

Answer 1

I pick up and yell "leave me the **** alone" and hang up.

Once in a while, I will allow them to go through their 10 minutes of bsing and then say "wow, this is a really pathetic job you have" and then hang up.

Answer 2

I jack with them all the time. I tell them she's not available right now or out of the country. I also pretend I'm a kid (I have a very kid voice) that's been left alone and can't answer their questions. I also carry on a make believe conversation about someone needing to get back in their cage before I beat them while I am talking with the telemarketer. It's sooooooo fun!!

Answer 3

I hang up before they say anything. I worked my way through college as a telemarketer (they pay AWESOME!!) and I learned the little trick that no one tells you about. Because it is an automated dialing system, it takes about 4 or 5 seconds after you answer for it to connect to the telemarketer. If you answer the phone, say hello, and hear silence for a few seconds, you can bet it is a telemarketer. Hang up immediately!!

Answer 4

When the telemarketer takes a breath or turns page on script I tell them to put us on "do not call list".
I am only employee at work and get tired of answering phone and finding it is telemarketer...saying...
"can I speak to the person that makes telecommunications decisions for your company?"

I tried telemarketing years ago...
It was horrible.
It was one of those outfits that leases you a freezer and them supplies the meat to go in freezer.
Boss handed me a couple of phonebooks for Lancaster Country PA.....which is like Amish country....They don't even have phones
(at least not in 1970'ish).
Lasted two days at that.

Haven't heard from QWEST in a while.
They were usually good for every third day.

Telemarketers are a pain in the ***.
Kinda irks me to be hit with advertising everywhere I go.

Answer 5

Go to this web site and register your phone numbers on the National Do-Not-Call Registry. Within 30 days, most of your telemarketer phone calls will disappear. If they do call again, you can file a complaint and they are subject to a $500 fine

Answer 6

My mom and I say "Sorry we don't speak english" then hang up immediately. Once this girl yelled back saying "If you don't understand English then don't come to Canada, we speak english here" So i obviously bitched back at her in english.

Sometimes when you pick up, theres a pause then you know its a telemarketer cause they are forwarding your call to them when you pick up. When that happens you hang up before they pick up.

Also my math teacher told me that sometimes a machine calls your house to see who will pick up at certain times and how long you would stay on the phone for, so when that happens, press the pound key 5-6 times and you will automatically call the machine so your number will be taken off.

Answer 7

The thing to remember is that these people have to take the telemarketer jobs to pay the rent and buy food. They deserve to be treated with respect as much as you.

Keeping that in mind, politely say "No, thank you, and please remove this number from your list."
Then, hang up and get online to
http://DoNotCall.gov

Put your numbers down there, and all calls should stop after that.
If they don't, you can prosecute.

:)

Answer 8

I've never done this but I've heard a few good ones:

To blow a whistle real loud in their ear.

To keep saying "I love You, will you marry me?" over and over and over again until THEY hang up.

Act like you don't speak English, and make up jibberish where they can't tell where you're from.

Right away fake cry and say "I just ran over my dog"

Or keep answering there questions with a question.

Answer 9

We bought a telephone that has a hold button. We tell the telemarketer that we are interested but ask them to hold on for one second. We put them on hold and go back to what we were doing and see how long that little red light flashes...lol.

Answer 10

I love what your mother-in-law does! That's hilarious!

I usually just don't answer, and if I do answer, I just say, "No, I'm not interested" and hang up before they can say anything else.

Anymore, all I get are charities asking for donations. I just tell them the truth. I say, "I'm sorry. I'm poor." And then I hang up.

Answer 11

I got this from Seinfeld...
I tell them now is a bad time, but if they give me their home number I will call them back later. Then they say something like no we can't do that. I tell them "Is it because you don't like people calling you at home, they say yes and I hang up the phone.