Harassed by a telemarketer - need advise

[mudrinner4ever]

Get one of those air power horns. The type they use a sporting events and such. Small spray can type with a horn on the end where the paint would come out if it were spray paint. They make a crazy loud sound. Set it by the phone. When they call back tell them to hold on, make em wait for about a minute, then hold air horn to phone and hit full blast. Repeat as necessary.

This is by far the funniest thing I've heard to do to telemarketers. Time to get an air horn :twisted:

 

[rik]

Do what i do. Harrass them. Guy or girl, it doesn't matter. Ask what they are wearing? Ask their opinion on reach arounds from giraffes. Just get them going. Wired disgusting questions. While you are doing that. Put some porn on the tv, and slowly raise the volume. Keep raising it till you can't here them speak. They will hang up.

OR tell them its a bad time and ask for their home phone number. Their reply will be no of course. To which you should reply with something like " why? Because you don't want complete strangers calling your house?" 9 times out of 10 they will reply yes. They say, "welcome to the fawking club"

I almost always use the first method. That always works. The second usually gives them a laugh and they leave me alone for a while. Then I hit them with the first method.

I don't see telemarketers as an annoyance, but rather free entertainment. You know you're bad when they tell you to hold so they can get their supervisor. Then give them the same treatment.

The Wifey keeps tellig me to record myself when they call and I pick up. Ive had some good ones.

 

[microgoat]

Before I ditched the land line, I had a few tricks that worked pretty well.

Answer the phone in your retard voice. Ask if they have puppies. I like puppies. I like ice cream, too.

Is this the suicide hotline? I was just going to call you. Things have been really rotten lately and I'm about to hang myself. If they go on with their pitch, kick a chair over and make gargling sounds.

Start telling them about the enormous shit you just dropped. Swear to god it's as long as my arm.

Thank them for calling 976-COME and let them know it's still only $4.99/minute.

God damn it, Johnny, where have you been? We've gotta get this damn body out of here right now!

Obviously, you have to be in the right mood for it. If you're not in the mood, put the phone down. They'll hang up eventually.

 

[korn_2956]

Just hang up or don't answer in the first place.

 

[Crawlernoobie]

Before they start to babble on, ask them if you could put them on hold for a minute to get something. Turn on the radio / tv and put the phone in front of the speaker and walk off. come back in 30min to see if they are there. If so put them on hold again, rinse and repeat as necessary . Or just buy a phone that can block calls.

 

[mrmagoo]

We pass it around to the kids and they have blast saying stupid stuff to them.

 

[EddieO]

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Takes care of it every time.

Later EddieO

 

[Turn'Nburn]

I got rid of my "land line" 10+ years ago do to telemarketers.

Needless to say, I ask for a supervisor and it ends shortly.

Unfortunately this isn't an option and I talked to the supervisor, she was just as bad.

Just hang up or don't answer in the first place.

Well, we tried ignoring them until they started call at weird times. It's hard to enjoy my time off when there is some moron calling and interrupting it.

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Takes care of it every time.

Later EddieO

Good one Eddie, Tom Mabe rules. One of my all time favorites!




The biggest problem is that these people calling are from a different country and these individuals obviously have no regard for our customs or professionalism. They call us after normal business hours and on weekends, on Sunday even. Then they say "you people are so rude, no wonder why everyone hates your country" after refusing their pitch, only to say they will call back every day. How cool is that. I'm not trying to hate but they are making it very hard. I also have a hard time letting things go, especially when I feel they are threatening my family by harassment. I would love nothing more than to see these fawkers getting water boarded.

 

[BJoe]

A friend of my sister would get these calls from time to time, her mom finally got fed up with it and finally told one that she wasn't available because thay had her commited the month before:ror:

 

[TwistedXT]

who the heck still has home phones? you guys all rock it old school.

 

[Benzbuildr]

Let Seal Team 6 handle it.

 

[Del Montess]

My mom used to blow a whistle into the phone speaker thing, kind of like the airhorn trick. They would never call back.

 

[OSRC]

hmm...you may have to have the phone company block the prefix if possible. I've noticed that when the pond scum call us, the last 4 digits are always different as we are getting calls from people at difference extensions or desks or whatever. Make it very difficult to block since each time the number is different.

We had Visa - VISA - calling us all hours of the day - we tried not answering, but the calls came every 20-30 minutes on my wife's cell phone, 7 am through 11 pm or so - got to be too much. Same deal, would not take no for an answer, wanted to sell us a rewards program, blah blah blah. Called my bank and visa and filed formal complaints and the calls eventually stopped.

 

[MudboyNJ]

Just hang up or don't answer in the first place.

boring

 

[Meatwad]

My response to them depends on how busy I am at the moment they call. Like was said, say hold on and put the phone down if busy never to come back. If not so busy, entertain oneself however seems fun at the time. Doing the repeater is the quick go to till you can decipher their accent then insult them according to the traditions of their national origin. Good luck "thumbsup"

 

[Natedog]

My response to them depends on how busy I am at the moment they call. Like was said, say hold on and put the phone down if busy never to come back. If not so busy, entertain oneself however seems fun at the time. Doing the repeater is the quick go to till you can decipher their accent then insult them according to the traditions of their national origin. Good luck "thumbsup"

I like it!

Before I ditched the land line, I had a few tricks that worked pretty well.

Answer the phone in your retard voice. Ask if they have puppies. I like puppies. I like ice cream, too.

Is this the suicide hotline? I was just going to call you. Things have been really rotten lately and I'm about to hang myself. If they go on with their pitch, kick a chair over and make gargling sounds.

Start telling them about the enormous shit you just dropped. Swear to god it's as long as my arm.

Thank them for calling 976-COME and let them know it's still only $4.99/minute.

God damn it, Johnny, where have you been? We've gotta get this damn body out of here right now!

Obviously, you have to be in the right mood for it. If you're not in the mood, put the phone down. They'll hang up eventually.

If I don't know who it is I'll answer in a weird voice or a fake foreign accent of my choice (depends on my mood at the time....lol), then I pretend like I don't understand, ask lots of questions, pretend like I'm hard of hearing and yell into the phone while asking them if they said xyz....whatever weird, obnoxious, etc. thing that they might have said....LOL....you gotta not laugh though. That always takes care of them...might call back once or twice tops....usually not more than once. I play with them and then laugh my fawkin azz off after I hang up....LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lot of great ideas in this thread.

 

[Duuuuuuuude]

who the heck still has home phones? you guys all rock it old school.

Just you wait until the alien overlords blow our communications satellites out of orbit...then you'll be wishin' you had a land line.

 

[BFGcrawler418]

Only reason I have a landline at my house is because theres no cell coverage where I live, if I had cell service I wouldnt have a landline.