How do you get rid of Telemarketers...?

Question

I feel bad saying no.

Answer 1

there is a national "do not call" list and one for my state as well. i am on both lists, and the penalty for calling me is $25,000 per call. my states AG is VERY aggressive in pursuing violators. in fact, he has bankrupted two companies (no joke). i tell them that, and if that doesn't do it, i have what is billed as the world's loudest police whistle by the phone. 5 seconds of that usually does it. they are rude for calling, i have no compunctions about being rude in return.

Answer 2

There is pretty much always a time period of a couple seconds between when you pick up and when the telemarketer speaks because it's switching from the autodialer to a real person. If you press the pound key incessantly during this couple of seconds, the system will think it's hit an invalid or disconnected number and kick it out of the system. You don't have to deal with the telemarketer then, and that particular one won't call again.

Just don't tell them something like, "I'm sorry, she's deceased." I did that when I was in Jr. High when a telemarketer asked for my mother. Turns out it was her credit card company trying to get her to do an upgrade for something or other. They cancelled her card.

Answer 3

I ask them if they can offer me something really unrealistic; if it's a phone company calling I ask for free long distance with no monthly fee and no service charges. Then I say that if they can't offer me that then I'm not interested in continuing the conversation. Thank you very much! (I actually did get a really good long distance plan using this tactic.)

I don't like to abruptly say no and hang up either. It is rude for them to call you and interrupt what ever you're in the middle of, but I think it is also rude for me to just hang up. I mean, they have a very unfortunate and unpleasant job, I don't want to make it worse for them.... they're people too.

Answer 4

I hang up on them. I use to deal with at least five to ten telemarkters a day at work every day. It just got to be too much. Too annoying. I read some email that gave one hundred suggestions in dealing with telemarkters. I always wanted to use one of those suggestions, but I didn't have the nerve. I just hung up on them instead. So I didn't have to deal with them.

Answer 5

30-06

Answer 6

I just tell them hang on a minute. I put the phone down and walk away. I like to play with them.

Answer 7

Tell them you are not interested, and then ask them if they have ever heard the word of god as spoken by Joseph Smith, with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Works every time.

Answer 8

i either start talking dirty to them or i ask for their number at home telling them im busy right now or i just keep interrupting them and saying not interested and being very aggressively mean and telling them this is a cell phone and im getting charged minutes so if u call here again i will press charges and i hang up...THEY WON'T CALL BACK

Answer 9

Buy an answering machine. I work in an office and have to answer phones all day at work. I seldom use my home phone, except to order food for dinner and check my bank balance!

Answer 10

I hang up on them. Telemarketers are between toe jam and shower scum on the evolutionary scale.