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9/9/2008 12:55:30 AM
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What do YOU do to telemarketers? ACTUAL TELEMARKETER STORY AVAILABLE!!
i pretend im 6 and i claim to believe they are my grandma!
and if she asks where my parents are, i tell them they in the bedroom playing the drums
now you dont even have to have done this, just come up with great ways to do it
EDIT: I missed it a while ago.... BUT 2000 REPLIES!!!!!! WOOO!!
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WOOOO!!!! I finally actually got a telemarketer to call me in ages! Here's the story:
A guy with a very strong east indian accent called and my senses kicked in immediately. He offered to do a free estimate for new gutters on my house, (my gutters are brand spanking new so I wasn't losing anything) so I told him that I needed to make sure that the gutters would stay sturdy if at least 150 pounds were hung off of them because the neighbors kids use my gutters to hang off of to sneak out of their house and they are always breaking. After some explaining and interrupting his sales pitch, he finally spoke to a manager and told me that it would hold the weight. ( I doubt it )
The guy spent twenty minutes and started getting aggravated with me trying to tell me that an expert would be at my house tomorrow to give me an estimate, but I kept telling him that I would like to come in and take a look at the gutters to see them hold the weight because I was busy with the court system going through a divorce (he thought I was my dad so.....) so I wouldn't be home much and it would be a waste of my time had the estimator come and told me "-blam!- no, it can't hold that." (and also see that my house isn't actually broken)
So the guy spent a good two minutes trying to convince me to let the guy come give me an estimate, all the while I kept telling him: "Look, there is no point in giving me an estimate if I don't see that it can hold 150 pounds! The rest of the gutters are brand new! it's just the once part that keeps breaking! I don't care how much it costs, I would just like to come in and see if it can hold the weight I need it to hold. There is no point for me to get your gutters if they are going to break again next week! I need to see them successfully hold 150 pounds first before anything else!"
that lasted for about 10 minutes. When he finally got the idea that I wanted to come see their gutters demonstrated, I was telling them that they were wasting my time with this and that I'll stick to what I can see in the stores. I could very much hear the agony in his hard to understand accent when he told me, "ok sir, thank you and sorry for your time."
[Edited on 07.20.2011 3:47 PM PDT]
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this....this is what i do [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwrzYrpCHz0]so annoyed[/url]
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Ask them their name. if they ask why, say "you know mine" then ask them their full name then ask for their home phone number they ask why, I say, "well you have mine" etc and if they refuse, threaten to sue them for calling me when I'm on the "no call list"
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[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj2oXMdZ4sk]This[/url]
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The crackslam.
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Ask for their name and, if you get it, when they start talking, say "Hey (name)!, Hey! (name)! HEY (name)!!! HEY!!!(name)!!!!!!!!!" and just keep going on and on until you get to the point where you're running out of breath, then once they lose their cool and say "WHAAATTT??!!!!", sing the 'do you like pancakes?' song, then laugh and hang up. I did it once and almost killed myself laughing. Happened a few months ago. OR you say" Hello? Hello? HELLO? HELLO!!??? IS ANYONE THERE!?!?!?!?!?!" and act like you can't hear anyone. For teh lolz. [Edited on 12.08.2010 9:35 PM PST]
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Here's what I do: guy: Is this the man of the house Me: No, this is me. (hang up)
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I say i refuse to grow a 2 foot mustache and put the phone outside for an hour then scream into the phone. It makes me happy
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I either play my drums or say"hello who's this" when they answer say ok so I have a special offer for you I have some (the company name they said when you asked whos there) and just for you it's buy one get one free I won't take no for an answer free p&p and try and get them to hang up first
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A good one I have heard is to always respond to whatever they say with "yes." "Are you interested in buying this product?" "yes" "would you like premium shipping?" "yes" "are you interested in more deals in the future?" "yes" "can I get your credit card number?" "yes" "Great, so what is that number?" "yes" . . . And so it continues until either you get bored or they hang up.
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Gary? Gary hey man i got that video of the Asian chick and the horse ready for you. I sent it over e-mail.
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i say stuff like "pass the bong man" and "dude this is some trippy w33d u got"
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Sir Isaac3012 telemarketer: Oh hi would you like to buy our new produc- Me:Oh, jeez sorry i'm a bit busy could i get your number (Telemarketers almost always say that they either: cannot do that or just pause and say 'ummmm') telemarketer:I don't think i'm actually allowed to do that... Me: oh, I geuss you don't want people bothering you at home. telemarketer:uh, yes, exactly Me:Now you know how i feel. HANG UP![/quote] SEINFELD :D
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I sell things to them. Its fun when you answer try to sell them something and see how they like it
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telemarketer: Oh hi would you like to buy our new produc- Me:Oh, jeez sorry i'm a bit busy could i get your number (Telemarketers almost always say that they either: cannot do that or just pause and say 'ummmm') telemarketer:I don't think i'm actually allowed to do that... Me: oh, I geuss you don't want people bothering you at home. telemarketer:uh, yes, exactly Me:Now you know how i feel. HANG UP!
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i act like i am getting killed or sometimes i rick roll them...
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I drop ice cubes into my toilet and moan loudly as he/she is speaking.
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Give them a LOOOOOOOONG list of what you've done today, and what you're going to do, and then give them a LOOOOOONG list of things you want for christmas(everything must be made of cheese) All this with a bad australian accent. Then, call them back and chat with them about their social life.
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I pretend im interested in what they are selling and then when they ant my credit card number that I dont have, then i hang up the phone . They call back '' Sorry it sounded you hung up on me'' my response '' did it sound something like this'' hang up the phone, this makes for angry telemarketer.
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i pretend i think its a -blam!- hotline.
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I love you!
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Load some pr0nz and put the mic part next to my speaker.
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i say if they call me again i will personallly go to all of theyre offices and shove their phones up all thier asses
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] dahuterschuter Ask them what they're wearing. Change my accent every other sentence. Try to sell them things. Ask about AirMiles after everything they offer.[/quote] the exact same thing.
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I say some thing like do you know jesus? then hang up or i pretend like I am another telemarketer and try and sell them something else
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very funny forum.
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My sister ( Who's like in 5th grade) screamed YO MAMA! Once so I did it to a telemarketer.. and he threatened to kill me and commit suicide. Then he cried and I ate some cookies.
