2007-01-21 16:06:31 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
When they ask how I am I use them for free therapy. If they interrupt me I tell them it was rude and start all over again.
2007-01-21 16:11:30 · answer #1 · answered by shadouse 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, There was this one time that this telemarketer called offering some sort of carpet cleaner, and this was about the 20th telemarketer to call, so I was already mad, and I took on the most pitiful voice I could and told them I lived in a house with dirt floors... lol, It was hilarious. Just say stuff like that. Actually, they haven't called back.... Hmmm, I wonder if it was something I said? :) Well, Have an awesome day! :)
2007-01-21 16:18:35 · answer #2 · answered by Emilie C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put yourself on the National Do Not Call List
Telemarketers only have to screen their call lists once every 30 days and take off registered numbers, so it can take up to a month, but it does work
2007-01-21 16:12:27 · answer #3 · answered by Me 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I pretend to be eighty, and a bit slow, but deeply interested in whatever they are selling. I let them believe they have made a sale, but keep them explaining details for as long as I can play the slightly senile old man (or lady). After ten to twenty minutes of this I say I'm interested but have to talk it over with my partner and would they give me their home number so I can call them tomorrow at meal time. Then I laugh and hang up. They rarely call back.
2016-05-24 13:14:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I cried and told the guy I wanted to kill myself. Then I fired a little 22 pistol out the window (I live in the country - no neighbors). The guy screamed and hung up. I didn't get any telemarketer calls for a long time after that. Now I am on the "do not call" list and they don't call anymore. Kinda miss messing with them.
2007-01-21 16:11:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I like to act like I'm someone else. Maybe another telemarketer, Pizza Hut guy, or some kind of canvassing religious trying to convert the guys that call you.
2007-01-21 16:12:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I go along with it. Then when they start asking about the specifices for payment,ect I tell them that I dont have a debet card because I just went bankrupt. Or if its for something travel related I tell them Im on parol and cant leave town. Basically I try to make them waist a lot of time selling me and then tell them sorry but I cant buy it. Once I said that I was my brother and that I was dead.
2007-01-21 16:11:23 · answer #7 · answered by bradnick2000 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I tried the whole wise cracks and being a smartass but really I think that made them want to call me more just to hear what I had to say that day,now if they call I just ask to be removed from the call list,once you ask they have to remove you,now I only get calls now and then rather than a few times daily!!
2007-01-21 16:10:26 · answer #8 · answered by molliehollie 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I know someone who answered and started talking like they were interested. Their friend popped balloons in the backgroung to make it sound like gun shots. She screamed, and cut off the line. Ends up, the call was traced, and the cops showed up. Real story. I've never tried it though.
2007-01-21 16:12:15 · answer #9 · answered by ARMY Babe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like what Jerry did in that one Seinfeld episode. When he received such a call he said something like...."Oh, well, this isn't a good time for me. How about you give me your number and I'll call you later this evening?.... Oh, you'll be at home and you don't want to be disturbed?....Then you'll understand this. " Click! Of course, I'm misremembering it to some degree. The original was pretty clever, though.
2007-01-21 16:10:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Get on the National Do Not Call List!!!
2007-01-21 16:09:56 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋