Is it just me or have telemarketers..........

[Zip]

...............been getting more and more angryer over the past few weeks

 

[benjo plz.]

Theres a scheme you can signup to that has you removed from the telemarket lists.

Clicky

 

[peter_hutson]

Had a good one recently. Telemarketer wanted me to move to Scottish Gas for my gas supply. Spoke to them for about 10 minutes about prices and then asked them when scottish gas would come to lay the pipline........"silence"

The gimps were not even aware that the closest domestic gas supply line is 2 miles away.

You can also get a service that blocks people phoning you that withhold their number, which most marketers do. Think it's about a fiver a quarter though.

 

[Sequoia]

.... and then asked them when scottish gas would come to lay the pipline........"silence"

Superb.

 

[Mickey_D]

Heh, I love stringing the AT&T folks along.

I have QWest for my long distance provider. They offered a package for two months a while ago that I jumped on - unlimited long distance for a flat fee of $25.00 a month. Since I live four states away from family and my best friend who I do a lot of gaming with, I jumped at it. QWest has been made sorry for ever offering it to me!!

AT&T calls up and says they can beat any and all competitors' prices for long distance. I tell them about the plan I have and they're speechless for a second. I even had one of them tell me it wasn't possible to have that plan. So I put him on three-way as I called QWest and asked them to verify my long distance plan. Needless to say, I haven't gotten a call from AT&T for quite a while!!

 

[AJUK]

I hate them. I have registered with TPS that filters out legitimate companies leaving only those that deserve my rudeness. I consider it my civic duty to be as obnoxious as possible to these morons.

 

[Mundu]

Heh, I love stringing the AT&T folks along.

I have QWest for my long distance provider. They offered a package for two months a while ago that I jumped on - unlimited long distance for a flat fee of $25.00 a month. Since I live four states away from family and my best friend who I do a lot of gaming with, I jumped at it. QWest has been made sorry for ever offering it to me!!

AT&T calls up and says they can beat any and all competitors' prices for long distance. I tell them about the plan I have and they're speechless for a second. I even had one of them tell me it wasn't possible to have that plan. So I put him on three-way as I called QWest and asked them to verify my long distance plan. Needless to say, I haven't gotten a call from AT&T for quite a while!!

Great! I just opt for the "I'm going out can't talk" although I wonder why I don't just put the phone down on them it's not as if I have to justify not talking to them.

 

[Burbleflop]

I always interrupt their sales talk, say that I'm not interested, thank them for their time and then hang up.

I don't feel the need to be rude to these people, they're only trying to earn a living.

 

[kitten_caboodle]

Just answer your phone with "Hola!'
or 'Bonjour' then if it's not someone you want to talk to, follow up with 'Lo siento mucho, or desole, je ne comprends pas'
(I'm very sorry & sorry I don't understand)

 

[Beansprout]

Last time I got a telemarketing call I said "sorry, this is a business line" - and they said "ok, sorry, bye"

Has to be the way forward

 

[gord]

If they ring my old man and ask for "Da Boss". He simply says, "hold on i'll go find him". He then goes off to look, and continue his actual work. 30 minutes he will go back to the phone.. often of which the sales guy is still there! My old man will then tell them "Sorry cant find him".

Otherwise he answers with "Hawwww... Hong... Kong... Hairport!". Im just glad all of his customers know him quite well.

My old man is the boss.

 

[AJUK]

If they ring my old man and ask for "Da Boss". He simply says, "hold on i'll go find him". He then goes off to look, and continue his actual work. 30 minutes he will go back to the phone.. often of which the sales guy is still there! My old man will then tell them "Sorry cant find him".

Otherwise he answers with "Hawwww... Hong... Kong... Hairport!". Im just glad all of his customers know him quite well.

My old man is the boss.

LOL. I used to work for someone a quite a few years ago who used to answer the phone an a John Cleese type funny voice with

"Battersea Dogs Home, Napolean speaking"

Cracked me up every time.

 

[GravyMonster]

I was bored at home one saturday. The missus was out shopping. The phone rings, its a conservatory salesman.

So i string him along for a good 20 minutes, talking prices and basically suggesting i'd be after the top of the line, mac daddy, tinted windows, most bling conservatory they had going.

"Although there may be a problem with my neighbours' garden. I live in a first floor flat"...*silence*.... *click, brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr*

hehehe i hate cold callers.

 

[iv-tecman]

I was bored at home one saturday. The missus was out shopping. The phone rings, its a conservatory salesman.

So i string him along for a good 20 minutes, talking prices and basically suggesting i'd be after the top of the line, mac daddy, tinted windows, most bling conservatory they had going.

"Although there may be a problem with my neighbours' garden. I live in a first floor flat"...*silence*.... *click, brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr*

hehehe i hate cold callers.

OMG, I did the extact same thing to a cold caller once. Strung them along, and then said I was living in a flat.. Funny.....!!!!!!!

 

[Alchemy]

Has anyone here ever done any telemarketing?

I doubt anyone would admit to it though.

 

[qwerty]

I think I converted a telemarketer from Orange yesterday. He asked me all the typical questions like "Do you have a mobile phone?" "Have you heard of Orange?" etc. then moved on to the fun stuff like "How many free minutes do you get?". Obviously I said 10,000, how many texts? 7 billion! It went on like this for a while.

This poor Indian chap was actually believeing me, the poor guy. At the end I said I was quite happy with my current network and he said "Yes sir, maybe you stick with Vodafone".

It's always quite fun if they call when you're bored.

 

[Burbleflop]

I had a telemarketer call me on Monday whilst I was rushing about Frankfurt airport trying find the car rental desk. The call was from someone at Orange who told me that they could reduce the amount I pay per month for my mobile phone.

I let them talk for a few minutes than I pointed out that my company pay my mobile bill so if he was going to reduce the amount of money it cost me then we would need to discuss just how much they were going to pay me to switch my mobile from Vodafone to Orange.

 

[Dinomania]

I keep getting calls from Orange asking what I'm planning to do when my current contract runs out - but I'm not even with Orange, I'm on T-Mobile.

Maybe I should play along and get me a free phone...

 

[Mellownatts]

It's awful but i can't bring myself to hang up on them..lol

After about 20 minutes of them waffling on, i just say no thanks, i think that annoys them even more though..

 

[Joe T]

LOL. I used to work for someone a quite a few years ago who used to answer the phone an a John Cleese type funny voice with

"Battersea Dogs Home, Napolean speaking"

Cracked me up every time.

My Dad used to do almost exactly the same thing!

Is it from some tv/radio show do you think?