2006-10-18 04:34:56 · 34 answers · asked by ashhedgie 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Take your own pad of paper. As soon as they start with you, smile, take out your paper and a pen, and commence quizzing them about what brand of underwear they favour, and what colours? If they object, just tell them they surely don't take exception to a little market research, it will only take 5 minutes!
Let me know how you get on!
2006-10-18 04:38:10 · answer #1 · answered by PhD 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If avoiding eye contact and pretending to be on your phone don't work, put on an American or Australian accent and say "Sorry, I don't live here so I don't think I'm of any use to you."
And re: what Ya'at'eeh said about telemarketing- please don't say that. You do realise it's not an individual sitting there dialling your number for selfish reasons? The company buys your information, the computers dial the numbers in it, the guy is sitting there at work being paid to talk- it is a perfectly legitimate job and he has done nothing personally wrong. If it wasn't him, it would be someone else, it's the company calling not the individual- and so no it's not the same as you calling him at home. Save that line for whoever invented telemarketing, but I assure you it's not the guy on the phone who should be expected to answer for the fact his job exists.
2006-10-18 05:43:31 · answer #2 · answered by - 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two very effective techniques can be used:
1) Walking towards them with a disgruntled-postal-worker look on your face, and a .45 caliber pistol in your belt.
2) Walking towards them in a 3 piece suit, a bible in one hand, and Jehova's Witness (Watch Tower) literature on the other hand. There is no doubt that the second technique might be more effect than a gun......brrrr, it's scary just thinking about it!
Best of Luck!
2006-10-18 04:50:38 · answer #3 · answered by Ralph 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just hold up my hand to their face, with plenty of force. Works everytime, and I don't even have to open my mouth. I just think the words f**f off instead. There should be a law against these people, I swear they are so irritating and what do you get anyway? a crisp or a chewing gum!!! wow amazing!!!!!!!!!
2006-10-18 04:58:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know how to get them off the phone really fast. I have my phone number placed on the national Do Not Call list, but I still get calls from "researches" they say they are not telemarketers. Last night I got a call and I asked the person for his home phone number and I would call him back with the info he was looking for. He told me he cannot give me his home phone number. I told him "Well you called me at my home, let me call you at your home." He got mad and hung up. Had he not hung up so soon I would have asked him his age, his annual income his type of work, etc....you know...the kind of questions they ask you, I just thought I'd turn the tables a bit.
2006-10-18 04:43:17 · answer #5 · answered by Ya'at'eeh 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Invest in a good sniper rifle, and just pick them off from long distance!!!!
If they phone you, I've found a good deterrent -
When asked if you are Mr or Mrs Bloggs, just say, "No, this is Detective Superintendent Jones. How exactly did you know the deceased???"
Worked a treat, put the wind right up him!!!!!!!!
2006-10-18 04:51:37 · answer #6 · answered by moomin papa 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just avoid eye contact
2006-10-18 04:36:34 · answer #7 · answered by dunc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stay away from town centres.
2006-10-18 04:38:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just walk past and say firmly but politely "No thank you I am not interested". I don't make any excuses to them as I find it none of their business why I don't want to buy whatever they are selling.
2006-10-18 04:38:20 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just walk on by, or tell them No understand English
2006-10-18 04:36:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋