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Fuckin TELEMARKETERS

once upon a time I had a landline and I stopped answering it due to 8 telemarketing calls a day selling construction services
I established a second landline to use regularly only to have that one inundated with those shitty people again after a year- its as bad as the original phone which I still have

I tried being nice. I tried telling them I am a contractor. Finally I told them to go to a residence my family moved from in 1968.
I would give them the info and then the telemarketer would have a supervisor call back 30 mins later to confirm and even more call to set the meeting up again and the sucker contractor would call when he was on his way. He would call when he was outfront and call again when people not their or people not know anything about the appt.

Finally I would clue him in and tell him to not accept addresses and phone numbers from his sources as I had a policy of messing around with them

some were very angry driving 45 mins for a bogus apt- I simply told him my new policy and if he wanted to have a repeat performance please do call to sell me stuff.

Other companies called the next day and I did the same

Now some have my phone number linked w the wrong address when b 4 they had my phone and address

Now I tell them my policy to start with and 1 month later I will remember the voice & they call again. Frequently they start with a story that they called a year ago and we talked about projects- very frustrating

I am on the do not call list- I worked a few days telemarketing and telling them to take me off their co list does not work and numbers are all over many times over and literally thousands of slip of paper with lists- the lowly worker could not do it if he wanted

The owner of the company might be able to remove from the cpu system those who use them.

Those trainees not on a computer calling use the fuckin paper lists. I frequently would call someone only to be told someone called an hour earlier.


ITS DRIVING ME BANANNAS and I am fukkin mad as hell
 
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xfire

@ChrisFreemanX
I have Caller ID, if I get an incoming call from an unfamiliar number I look at it as an opportunity to practice telephone trolling. For example, I got a call from an Unidentified Caller from the 817 area code a few weeks ago. About an hour later I got a call from the same number, but it Identified as Fort Worth, TX. I picked up the phone and said, "Blue Moon Investigations". The telemarketer asked for me by name. I replied, "This is an investigations service", to which she promptly hung up. I lol'd and shared it on my facebook page. Another time I picked up the phone and said, "This is a toll call, press 1 to continue or hang up to avoid charges." Don't look at it as an inconvenience, it's an opportunity!
 

tvstrip

Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
Bronze Member
We think alike xfire. A couple gems I like to use:
- ##th precinct, fraud division, how may I help you?
- anal fetish hotline, what is your fantasy?
- answer in another language. If you don't know any, just make one up, it doesn't matter.
- when you get to the point where they ask you for a credit card, tell them to hold for a second while you get it.... and see how long they wait. It helps if you have a landline for this one. (My record is 30 minutes, but they usually don't last 10 minutes.
- if the caller is a woman or has an accent, act intolerably sexist/racist and see how far you can go before they hang up

But I'm going to have to try that toll call line, especially in conjunction with #2. Should be fun.
 

ban-one

Works for panties
 

xfire

@ChrisFreemanX
We think alike xfire. A couple gems I like to use:
- ##th precinct, fraud division, how may I help you?
- anal fetish hotline, what is your fantasy?
- answer in another language. If you don't know any, just make one up, it doesn't matter.
- when you get to the point where they ask you for a credit card, tell them to hold for a second while you get it.... and see how long they wait. It helps if you have a landline for this one. (My record is 30 minutes, but they usually don't last 10 minutes.
- if the caller is a woman or has an accent, act intolerably sexist/racist and see how far you can go before they hang up

But I'm going to have to try that toll call line, especially in conjunction with #2. Should be fun.

I'm going to research if I can actually charge people for calling me. I don't see why not, my fucking time is valuable.
 
I do not want to pay for caller id but it has its place

I do answer and remain quiet for a while and they ask if I am there

some people ask them to repeat it often after a long statement and claim your heard of hearing
 
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