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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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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Batzter I tell them that I'm not interested. They're only doing their jobs so there is no need to be rude. There are some things that annoy me a little though and that is when they just start talking without introducing themselves first or when they talk like I've known them my entire life.[/quote] I love you. Oh yeah i'm a telemarketer, and we play some mean games too, tell us off and we'll put your number on redial and juggle you around between us or sign you up anyways. Be nice like us.
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I tell them I'm the lawn boy.
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give them false information so they can bug my buddy :)
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on my old phone when you put people on hold it plays realy annoying music, like the kinda thing you find in lifts sometimes, and i put them on hold and leave the phone somewhere, then find the phone half an hour later, wonder why it is on hold, remember, then hang up.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Gpgpg13r "Is your mom home?" "My mom died in a car accident..." AWKWARD SILENCE *BEEP BEEP BEEP*[/quote] thats messed up ok so heres how it goes TM:hello i am, Me: *jigsaw voice* hello Chris, i want to play a game. TM:um my name is Marvin. Me:...........*in backround* If you made arangments for this strainger to call than.....oh no TM:Sir? Me :*jigsaw voice* never mind *click* *BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP*
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I usually say the Liam Nelson phone speech from Taken.
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"Is your mom home?" "My mom died in a car accident..." AWKWARD SILENCE *BEEP BEEP BEEP*
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Fridge Gnome Lol next time this telemarketer calls me I am going to screw with him.[/quote] it's not some sort of all powerful entity
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Lol next time this telemarketer calls me I am going to screw with him.
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freepost envelopes and raw meat the possibilities aren't quite endless, nor are they pleasant
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] LordCrotchpants I don't pick up the phone unless I know who it is.[/quote]why cant you just return my calls?!?!?!
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[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr0gdl4c0v4]This Too[/url]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] doogoon 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 [/quote] [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pby8_xrnAN0]I Watch VideoJug[/url]
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i jut keep talking when they are trying to talk.and then they are like are your parents home. and i say no now dont call agen.
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Two words-tactical nuke.
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I make noises like men do when they " Finish " followed by a " Ahhh... Thank you " Then hang up
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I once asked a telemarketer if they would be interested in joining a national socialist party. Just the other day I told the caller I'd be with them in just a second and played an adult film as an 'on hold' soundtrack. [Edited on 11.09.2010 2:36 AM PST]
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Ask them where their parents are! And if they ask for my phone number, i give them the number address for Telstra.
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I say hello and hello until they stop with there mission of world annoyance.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Batzter I tell them that I'm not interested. They're only doing their jobs so there is no need to be rude. There are some things that annoy me a little though and that is when they just start talking without introducing themselves first or when they talk like I've known them my entire life.[/quote] thank you, you are one of the few kind people on this forum
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I'm on the do not call list. W00t.
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Recently I have started saying "Thank you for calling the National Terrorist Hotline for all your terrorizing suicide bombing and car bombing needs!! How may I be of service t oyou today?" All said in a sorta indian accent like Apu kinda
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Warning- STRONG LANGUAGE [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63lYBalGx7M]This[/url]
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I pretend to mistake that they're a fellow cult member and hastily pass on the "Meeting Plans" to them....Got some funny reactions out of that one.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] doogoon i pretend im 6 and i claim to believe they are my grandma! I tell them I need to talk to my Mum!
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I screw with them by saying my name is Yoshio Nakamura and then I say "Hory Mory I ruv rice" (I'm Asian so I really don't give a crap about stereotypes) and then I hang up.
