Telemarketers (1 Viewer)

[Mr. Ected]

Apologize if this is a Honda, can't search real well.

Are people rude to telemarketers?

Just got a call from someone doing a survey about something, who started the conversation with "Is the lady of the house present?" I hung up.

I despise telemarketing. I put our number on a block soliciting calls list when we first got it, and still receive calls.

The only calls I am polite to are those that are obviously 501©(3) type organizations, like the Vets asking for clothes donations. I listen to their schtick and tell them "Not at this time," because with kids I usually have extra clothes to donate.

 

[Jack White]

I solved this problem on my own: no land line, and I don't answer calls on my cell from numbers I don't recognize.

 

[shadyridr]

I don't answer the phone if i dont recognize the number. If by some strange reason i do, i just hang up without saying anything.

 

[Bucky86]

I solved this problem on my own: no land line, and I don't answer calls on my cell from numbers I don't recognize.

 

[Mr. Ected]

I solved this problem on my own: no land line, and I don't answer calls on my cell from numbers I don't recognize.

Would like this solution, but need land line for my alarm system; and I have younger kids, need to supply them with a phone (until I cave to get them iPhones!).

 

[Jack White]

I solved this problem on my own: no land line, and I don't answer calls on my cell from numbers I don't recognize.

Would like this solution, but need land line for my alarm system; and I have younger kids, need to supply them with a phone (until I cave to get them iPhones!).

In that case, a simple "No thanks" and a quick hangup should do the trick.

 

[Bucky86]

I solved this problem on my own: no land line, and I don't answer calls on my cell from numbers I don't recognize.

Would like this solution, but need land line for my alarm system; and I have younger kids, need to supply them with a phone (until I cave to get them iPhones!).

In that case, a simple "No thanks" and a quick hangup should do the trick.

If I'm ever caught off-guard I'll flip on my old asian lady voice.

 

[ChiefD]

I usually talk to them. The political ones are the best.

Had one politics group try to call time after time. After about the third time, I asked for the girls name and direct phone number. I then told her:

I have written down your organizations name and telephone number. If you ever call me again, I'm sending this information to my state's attorney general.

Never heard from them again. Had another group call over and over, but when you would answer, nothing. So I called the number back, and someone answered. Got the name and phone number, told them the same schtick. Never called again.

 

[Jack White]

I usually talk to them.

I used to do this to sales reps when I had a land line.

I'd throw her three objections just to see if she would not give up. If she kept trying, I'd say, "Sound good. Let me go get my credit card."

Then I'd set the phone down and never come back.

Fun times.

 

[General Tso]

There was a classic thread in here about 10 years ago about a telephone solicitation gone bad. Some telemarketer called a guy who I guess rudely told him not to call him anymore. Apparently the telemarketer was a psycho and proceeded to harass him for months. I think they guy actually changed his phone number to an an unpublished number, and the telemarketer somehow got the new number. The guy couldn't track down the telemarketer or where he was calling from. It was a crazy story. I think the guy had to get the police involved and even they couldn't help. Not sure how it ended but it scared the #### out of a lot of us.

 

[MC Gas Money]

I just hang up. No reason to be mean. They are just trying to make a living.

 

[Cliff Clavin]

Apologize if this is a Honda, can't search real well.

Are people rude to telemarketers?

Just got a call from someone doing a survey about something, who started the conversation with "Is the lady of the house present?" I hung up.

I despise telemarketing. I put our number on a block soliciting calls list when we first got it, and still receive calls.

The only calls I am polite to are those that are obviously 501©(3) type organizations, like the Vets asking for clothes donations. I listen to their schtick and tell them "Not at this time," because with kids I usually have extra clothes to donate.

Say you'll go get her and put them on hold. See how long they'll wait till hanging up.

 

[chauncey]

I just answer the phone by saying Bueno! If they ask for Mr Chauncey I respond with "no hablo ingles". I repeat this until they hang up.

 

[Flying V]

I just hang up. No reason to be mean. They are just trying to make a living.

Telemarketers are trained to prey on the weak; the folks who are too unassertive, passive, or submissive to say "no". It's a lousy way to make a living and they are only one step above the con man.

So yeah, when they start applying the hard sell, I can get pretty rude with them.

 

[MC Gas Money]

I just hang up. No reason to be mean. They are just trying to make a living.

Telemarketers are trained to prey on the weak; the folks who are too unassertive, passive, or submissive to say "no". It's a lousy way to make a living and they are only one step above the con man.So yeah, when they start applying the hard sell, I can get pretty rude with them.

The company yes.

I wont be nasty to the employees anymore than I will get nasty with walgreens clerk asking to donate a dollar to the national hemmorhoid relief fund everytime I pick up a few bottles of DXM syrup

 

[(HULK)]

My uncle used to talk to them for a few minutes, slowly lowering his voice until the caller would ask him to speak up a few times. Then he'd blow an air horn into the reciever and hang up.

 

[leftcoastguy7]

I would ignore phone calls where I'd don't recognize the number BUT

typically the telemarketers will leave a voice mail. Then I have to go through the pain of calling up voice mail and then deleting the message. Seems easier just to answer the call then hang up.

Is there a better way I may not be seeing?

 

[Leroy Hoard]

My uncle used to talk to them for a few minutes, slowly lowering his voice until the caller would ask him to speak up a few times. Then he'd blow an air horn into the reciever and hang up.

I think your uncle & I would get along pretty well.

 

[=Smackdown=]

Answer phone and ask them to hold

Put phone down and walk away

 

[HughHoney]

I just hang up. No reason to be mean. They are just trying to make a living.

Telemarketers are trained to prey on the weak; the folks who are too unassertive, passive, or submissive to say "no". It's a lousy way to make a living and they are only one step above the con man.

None of that is true. I worked as a telemarketer for over a year. Never trained to prey on the weak. There's no con at all. We were offering a product. Take it or leave it. There was no scam.

 

[Flying V]

I just hang up. No reason to be mean. They are just trying to make a living.

Telemarketers are trained to prey on the weak; the folks who are too unassertive, passive, or submissive to say "no". It's a lousy way to make a living and they are only one step above the con man.

None of that is true. I worked as a telemarketer for over a year. Never trained to prey on the weak. There's no con at all. We were offering a product. Take it or leave it. There was no scam.

You must have really sucked at it then. Never take NO for an answer!!!

 

[MC Gas Money]

I just hang up. No reason to be mean. They are just trying to make a living.

Telemarketers are trained to prey on the weak; the folks who are too unassertive, passive, or submissive to say "no". It's a lousy way to make a living and they are only one step above the con man.

None of that is true. I worked as a telemarketer for over a year. Never trained to prey on the weak. There's no con at all. We were offering a product. Take it or leave it. There was no scam.

What is the longest you waited in silence before hanging up?

 

[HughHoney]

I just hang up. No reason to be mean. They are just trying to make a living.

Telemarketers are trained to prey on the weak; the folks who are too unassertive, passive, or submissive to say "no". It's a lousy way to make a living and they are only one step above the con man.

None of that is true. I worked as a telemarketer for over a year. Never trained to prey on the weak. There's no con at all. We were offering a product. Take it or leave it. There was no scam.

You must have really sucked at it then. Never take NO for an answer!!!

I was one of the top sellers my man.

 

[HughHoney]

I just hang up. No reason to be mean. They are just trying to make a living.

Telemarketers are trained to prey on the weak; the folks who are too unassertive, passive, or submissive to say "no". It's a lousy way to make a living and they are only one step above the con man.

None of that is true. I worked as a telemarketer for over a year. Never trained to prey on the weak. There's no con at all. We were offering a product. Take it or leave it. There was no scam.

What is the longest you waited in silence before hanging up?

One time I waited around 5 minutes, muted my side and talked to the guy next to me. When the person came back and found out I waited that long they weren't happy.

 

[MC Gas Money]

I just hang up. No reason to be mean. They are just trying to make a living.

Telemarketers are trained to prey on the weak; the folks who are too unassertive, passive, or submissive to say "no". It's a lousy way to make a living and they are only one step above the con man.

None of that is true. I worked as a telemarketer for over a year. Never trained to prey on the weak. There's no con at all. We were offering a product. Take it or leave it. There was no scam.

What is the longest you waited in silence before hanging up?

One time I waited around 5 minutes, muted my side and talked to the guy next to me. When the person came back and found out I waited that long they weren't happy.

Did they buy?

 

[HughHoney]

I just hang up. No reason to be mean. They are just trying to make a living.

Telemarketers are trained to prey on the weak; the folks who are too unassertive, passive, or submissive to say "no". It's a lousy way to make a living and they are only one step above the con man.

None of that is true. I worked as a telemarketer for over a year. Never trained to prey on the weak. There's no con at all. We were offering a product. Take it or leave it. There was no scam.

What is the longest you waited in silence before hanging up?

One time I waited around 5 minutes, muted my side and talked to the guy next to me. When the person came back and found out I waited that long they weren't happy.

Did they buy?

No they did not.

 

[Hilts]

No land line, but I always answer my cell. Usually just hang up with a quick no. Once I had some spammers constantly calling me telling me I needed to update windows and it was being exposed to some security threat. Zero idea how they were able to make this scam work, but one day they called as I was taking a walk around a nearby lake. I decided to play along because I was bored. The first telemarketer got so incredibly excited someone was biting he transferred me to his 'superior' who would walk me through updating my system. Before his boss came onto the phone, I got the really stupid idea to pretend I was mentally slow. When the boss came on, he tried walking me through updating my system, but I had him repeat himself 3-4 times for each step. He had a very thick middle eastern accent, and I'd either pretend I didn't understand his directions (which would require him to give even more simple instructions helping me get to the next point) or couldn't quite understand him. It was really childish crap, but I was just taking a long walk and didn't have much else to do.

At some point, after almost 10 minutes of him walking me through simple things like how to turn on my computer, how to find the 'any' key, and other nonsense, our game finally came to an end when he demanded to know what it said on my screen after typing a command. Realizing the jig was up and being tired of the conversation, I stopped speaking slowly and just told him "I have no idea, but I'm not buying into your scam." He just asked me "what?" then I told him to go eff himself. At that point he started to realize I was jerking him around, because then he yelled at me "Are you not on a computer right now!!?!?!!" When I told him no, I was just walking around the lake, he let loose an impressive string of obscenities, told me I was a terrible person, then hung up. They haven't called back since.

 

[MC Gas Money]

I just hang up. No reason to be mean. They are just trying to make a living.

Telemarketers are trained to prey on the weak; the folks who are too unassertive, passive, or submissive to say "no". It's a lousy way to make a living and they are only one step above the con man.

None of that is true. I worked as a telemarketer for over a year. Never trained to prey on the weak. There's no con at all. We were offering a product. Take it or leave it. There was no scam.

What is the longest you waited in silence before hanging up?

One time I waited around 5 minutes, muted my side and talked to the guy next to me. When the person came back and found out I waited that long they weren't happy.

Did they buy?

No they did not.

What were you selling?

 

[HughHoney]

I just hang up. No reason to be mean. They are just trying to make a living.

Telemarketers are trained to prey on the weak; the folks who are too unassertive, passive, or submissive to say "no". It's a lousy way to make a living and they are only one step above the con man.

None of that is true. I worked as a telemarketer for over a year. Never trained to prey on the weak. There's no con at all. We were offering a product. Take it or leave it. There was no scam.

What is the longest you waited in silence before hanging up?

One time I waited around 5 minutes, muted my side and talked to the guy next to me. When the person came back and found out I waited that long they weren't happy.

Did they buy?

No they did not.

What were you selling?

I sold magazines subscription renewals, calling people who already had the magazine and just making sure they re upped. Also sold credit cards, that was a little more difficult, and called people trying get them to switch telephone service providers, which was near impossible.

 

[JHuber77]

Give the phone to your toddler that only babbles. After talking to someone who only speaks gibberish, they won't call again. It also keeps the kid occupied for a few minutes. Win/win

 

[MC Gas Money]

I think once over ten years ago I answered and it was a phonomarketer.

I said "there is someone here who would like to speak to you"

I farted in to the phone and hung up.

I was a teenager

 

[Da Guru]

I just hang up. No reason to be mean. They are just trying to make a living.

I always give a quick "No thanks" and hang up.

 

[Courtjester]

I love the I am from Windows Security Agency people that tell me they have received a signal my computer is infected. I get one of these a week it seems--all seem to be calling from Korea. The first one was great, I pretended to start crying hysterically and went on and on about that I was just going to throw my computer away. I threw like an old phonebook in the trashcan really loudly and the guy on the other end in his broken English was imploring me not to throw it away.

The next one I used the technique mentioned on here where I told him I don't have a computer. I don't believe in technology. The guy finally hung up.

 

[Despyzer]

Telemarketers are an opportunity for joy in your life.

 

[gethugefast1]

To bad 'Call Intercept' is not available to new customers anymore...

Nearly 900,000 consumers have the Verizon service that works in
conjunction with Caller ID. If no phone number appears on a Caller ID
display, Call Intercept intercepts the call and gives callers an opportunity
to record their name. About 85 percent of the time, callers hang up when they
hear the Call Intercept announcement and that means the phone never rings, so
the Call Intercept customer is not disturbed. If the caller does record their
name, the phone rings and the recording is played for the customer, who can
then decide whether to take the call.

With Call Intercept, calls that appear as "anonymous," "private," "out of
area" or "unavailable" on Caller ID units will be intercepted before the phone
rings. Callers hear a message informing them that the subscriber does not
accept unidentified calls and requests that they identify themselves by name
or organization. After callers record a message Call Intercept rings the
subscriber's phone, plays the message identifying the caller and provides
several options for managing the call. The subscriber may accept or decline
the call or send it to voice mail.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/verizons-call-intercept-blocks-millions-of-unwanted-calls-75774142.html

 

[Christo]

I solved this problem on my own: no land line, and I don't answer calls on my cell from numbers I don't recognize.

Would like this solution, but need land line for my alarm system; and I have younger kids, need to supply them with a phone (until I cave to get them iPhones!).

You still don't have to answer it.

 

[ROCKET]

When you own a business that is based out of your home the calls are relentless. I'm at the point where I'm considering getting rid of the business land line even if it costs me business. It would be tough to do all my business thru a cell phone but I'm considering it.

Absolutely brutal, tens of calls every day/night with many who call for months. If you answer half of the time no one is on the line, just recorded messages.

 

[Mr. Ected]

I solved this problem on my own: no land line, and I don't answer calls on my cell from numbers I don't recognize.

Would like this solution, but need land line for my alarm system; and I have younger kids, need to supply them with a phone (until I cave to get them iPhones!).

You still don't have to answer it.

Correct, but you either have to hear the rings or run to the phone to silence them. Both annoying.