What's the most craziest thing you've ever done or said to a telemarketer?

Question

Before I put myself on the do not call list I would get calls from telemarketers telling me to take surveys over and over and when they called again I blasted music very loud and put the phone on the speaker to make me sound like I was at a party and I kept yelling out What! What! I cant hear you until they finally hung up. Lol.

What have you done?

Answer 1

I told them I would have to go down in the basement and find my Mommy because she stays there and never comes up but sometimes the neighbor man goes down to see her and he was down there now , while I talked like a little kid. My husband told a man that was trying to sell him a product for our septic tank that was made of organic yeast that would keep the tank clean and my husband told him that we didn't need a product because his wife always had yeast infections so that would work in the septic tank too. It was funny because I was on the extension and I could hear the other telemarketers laughing !

Answer 2

First, telemarketers use a dialer that calls 4 numbers at once. The first one that gets answered is the one the telemarketer talks to. I wait until my phone rings at least 3 times and by then the telemarketer has usually gotten another sucker who answered quicker.

But one time I told the telemarketer I was a consultant. My fee was $250.00 an hour for phone consulting and I needed a valid credit card number before I would talk to him, and my minimum fee was $120.00. When he tried to argue I said just a minute, I can probably bill your phone number. He disconnected pretty quick at that.

Answer 3

I had one magazine telemarketer going for about 10 minutes...asking for details on each magazine...all in very broken incomprehensible English.

I finally hung up after I suddenly remembered that "I can't read English."

Now I give the calls to my kids and God knows what they do to them...but I don't particularly care.

Answer 4

Before i got on the do not call list I would say, hold on , I need to get someone who speaks your language. Then I'd set the phone down and walk away, usually within 5 minutes they'd hang up.

Answer 5

Ask them for their home phone and you'll call them back later when you have more time or tell them just a minute and you'll the the person that they want and put the phone down and go about whatever you were doing before.

Answer 6

I started to have phone sex with this lady telemarketer I asked what she was wearing She never ever called back

Answer 7

my who is a telemarketer heard this one. "i'm doing a crossword, what is the state that the potatoes come from?" telemarketer "idaho" you "Well I da pimp so get back to work". It is silly but I thought it was a good laugh.

Answer 8

I haven't done this but one of my friends does.
When a telemarketer calls, they answer the phone and then say "dude, you just inerupted sex." The common response is to say their sorry and to hang up.
It is funny.
....After my mom died we kept getting these telemarkers who would say is your mom home blah blah blah, whatever. I would tell them that she was dead and to stop calling and reminding us. They very quickly stopped asking for her.

Answer 9

The very last day before I emigrated to America I told a window sales guy that I was emigrating - tomorrow! I'm sure he didn't believe me, but never a truer word spoken!

Answer 10

I give them a false name (usually somebody I work with) then proceed on and sign up for as much stuff as possible all the while giving my co-workers phone number, e-mail, address, etc..

I think its hilarious but would hate it if somebody did it to me. hahaha