Why I Like Telemarketing Calls?

Question

1. I get to hang up on them.
2. Sometimes I stay on the line and tell them huge exagerations.
3. Sometimes I give them random questions back, like Do you like Cherrios or Why are you so ugly? It throws the telemarketer way off his script.

What do you do when they call you?

Answer 1

They don't call me any more, but when they did, I would let them give their sales pitch and then ask what they were wearing.

Answer 2

I was on my own calling from home not monitered. I was working for a labratory booking tests for well water for bacteria. One morning i had a wing nut tell me she and her husband had developed complete immunity to all bacteria.God help me i couldnt let that one pass. I told her how impressed i was and told her of the great opportunity she and her husband before them. She showed great intrest and asked for more information. So i explained with a mind set like you have i can set up a very big money making deal. How do we do this well i have a friend with an airplane i have a video machine i am suggesting you get a mind set on jumping out of the airplane without a parachute. Can you imagine how famous you will be one way or the other.

Answer 3

I ask them their date of birth, home address and mother's maiden name together with their annual income. They always refuse so I say 'But yet you expect me to give those details to you, a perfect stranger?'

Or I say "Never mind all that. I bet you're on commission for your sales, aren't you? Well you may not be aware but that's not part of pensionable income and securing security for your retirement is far more important than generating short term income now. How would it be if I were to come round to see you so that I can arrange a pension plan for you. I am a fully qualified financial advisor under the Financial Services Act 1985. When would be a convenient time to visit you?

Or "Does it matter that I'm filing for bankruptcy next week?"

Or "Oh it's THAT Mr Smith (or whatever your name is) you want. Sorry, he died last week. We've just got back from the funeral."

Or "Don't you think it's more important to introduce you to The Lord? Aren't you concerned about the situation in the world right now? What about the poverty in Africa? What's your opinuion of the Middle East situation? Have you considered global warming? These are all signs predicted in the Bible in the Book of Revelations. Now's the time to make peace with God. I can help you there. Can I invite you to come to my church next Sunday or would you prefer a home visit? Where do you live? If it's not near here I can arrange for one of the brothers living near you to visit."

Or "Entshuldigen Sie bitte. Ich spreche kein Englisch."

Answer 4

i hang up. but my husband gets all into it. he'll be like "REALLY! NO WAY! i can win a FREE trip! OH MAN!"

i used to work for nielsen media though and i know how hard it is to make those calls even when your not selling anything so i feel somewhat bad for them. and at nielsen if all you got was a "hello" and hang up with out any other words being said by the other party, then it wasn't considered a "deny" and didn't count against you. so i just hang up incase their policy is the same. but in order to keep them from calling again you have to specifically say "take me off your list".

Answer 5

If I have the time, I'll ask questions about their product. I will go on and on until they realize that there is no end and that they are wasting their time. At that point, they are trying to get off the line but have a hard time hanging up on a person who is asking relevant questions regarding their business. I make them feel like they would be impolite to hang up on me so that I can further my personal goal of amusing myself.

Doesn't that sound like what they do to us?

Answer 6

I keep them on the phone as long as possible. The more time of theirs you waste, the less productive their company is. If EVERYONE did this, telemarketing would eventually come to an end.

Answer 7

Depends on the product. Usually I get the call for a newspaper. I like telling them that I don't know how to read and don't appreciate them calling me and rubbing it in. Or for better effect you tell them that your blind.

If it's for a long distance provider, tell them you don't own a phone. There's always a confused silence after that.

For home refinance, tell them you just filed for bancruptcy and lost your house. "I'm packing everything I own into boxes right now... I don't know where I'm going to live!" Crying helps.

Answer 8

I tell them wait a while, and put down the horn next to the phone, than if they are still there after half an hour, I say, sorry to make you wait and hang up the phone.

Answer 9

I keep asking them questions and going into ridiculously fine detail. Then I tell them, after a lengthy period of time wasting:
"I'm actually not that interested. So, how about that new ecumenical movement?"
There is usually an odd silence and they hang up. But by then you have their name and company and you can call back and complain to their supervisor.

I can really only commit to this when I'm extremely bored though.

Answer 10

if im bored i keep them on the line as long as possible. you see telemarketing is a numbers game. i used to do it myself. the more people you call the more you actually get to buy something or sign up for something. like one in five hundred actually do. so if i take up their time making them think im interested their working for free basically since they all make on commision. then at the end i tell them how retarded they are and laugh. they hang up on me then.

Answer 11

My favorite was to tell them that I own a similar company.