Yea, shut up.
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Yea, shut up.
I usually just pick the phone up and scream into the reciever, then hang up.
Caller ID rules.
they usually call during dinner so then i stay on the line and chew my food really loud on the phone. Every time i hear thier phone pick up after mine i hang up before they even get a word out. The absolute worst is when you pick up your phone and they aren't even there because they dial 4 numbers at once and talk to whomever answers first. I'd say 65% of my telemarketer calls are hang-ups like that.
I like the foghorn idea.
That would be so F'ing funny.
I usually just don't pick up my phone.
wow - i didn't know that. I wonder if thats why my house always gets these seemingly "prank" phone calls. Sometimes they'd come in too frequently, and I thought to myself, who the hell has this much time on their hands to do something like this. Shit we're not enemies with anyone. Heh...I guess it was just the absent telemarketers all along. :lol:Quote:
Originally posted by stormy
they usually call during dinner so then i stay on the line and chew my food really loud on the phone. Every time i hear thier phone pick up after mine i hang up before they even get a word out. The absolute worst is when you pick up your phone and they aren't even there because they dial 4 numbers at once and talk to whomever answers first. I'd say 65% of my telemarketer calls are hang-ups like that.
At a recent point in time, my dad moved before the rest of us did. Whenever my mother got a phone call from a telemarketer asking for (his name), she would say "I'm sorry, but he's not with us anymore". They'd get depressed, say something along the lines of "Oh... I'm sorry", and hang up.
Here's one trick I use:
I will pretend not to be myself. They'll say "May I speak to Steve please?". I generally say "He's not here right now, may I take a message?". :lol: Kyah, hah, hah...FOOL!
I've not had to do this too much lately with Privacy Manager on my phone line.
One exception- at one time, I asked the lady on the other end "Are you one of those damn telemarketers? :mad: ". She said "uhhh... yes, sorta". What did I do next? CLICK.
I am surprised at the direction this is taking. You don't know the other person, so what makes you think you are justified in being an ass to him?
I come from the Big City, and, believe me, there a heck of a lot shadier work out there than being a telemarketing rep. The rejection they must get is bad enough, why must it have a rich venomous icing on top?
You don't want to talk to strangers? Screen your calls. Having a phone is like walking out in the street: you're bound to interact with people you neither know nor want to know. That's part of the deal.
Ask to be taken off the list. At least then you are taking some kind of action aimed at lessening the volume of calls. Maybe the guy on the other end just wants to raise a couple of hundred extra dollars to buy Mario, Star Fox, and Metroid Prime. Or maybe it's Despair trying to raise some Sin & Punishment funds.