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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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I tell them they better sleep with their eyes open Or I pretend to be a telemarketer myself.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] AshleyXD next time one calls i am gonna say, "in soviet russia, s**t sell YOU"[/quote] Fixed
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Offer to sell [i] them [/i] something (AKA "The Old Switcheroo")
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Pick up the phone and say, "Your Mom is so stupid she tried to wake up a sleeping bag! "
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I would pull a Jerry Seinfeld on them. Me: Oh, now isn't a good time, could you give me your home number so I could call you back? Marketer: Well, I rather wouldn't. Me: I guess you would'nt want random people calling you at your house, right? Marketer: Yes. Me: Well, now you know how I feel. *hang up*
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No i will not yell garble. I will....do a barrel roll!
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] AshleyXD next time one calls i am gonna say, "in soviet russia, the people sell toy YOU"[/quote]Umm, I don't think that's how the saying goes...
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"My ass would like to talk to you" *Fart loudy hang up* Lul'Z
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next time one calls i am gonna say, "in soviet russia, the people sell toy YOU"
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I yell garble into the receiver. /-win
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I keep asking them "What?"
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Ask how to cook Kraft Mac 'n' Cheese and when they say they can't answer that ask for their supervidor. I got to the supervisor's supervisor once and he walked me through it if I'd listen to the pitch. I hung up after he got to mixing the cheese with the pasta.
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I try to sell [i]them[/i] something.
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i usually speak a little spanish to them and see if they understand. one time this guy even told that he wasnt allowed to speak spanish on tis call.
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Telemarketers are not enemies. If you encounter a Paracell telemarketer, please be polite if you are not interested in one of our fine products, such as the Z-Disc player, or Gene Sequence upgrades.
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When i they call i answer... Mr. .....??? died last night do you have any connections with him... then freak him out until he hangs up.
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I can do a John F. Kennedy accent. lulz ensured. [Edited on 06.12.2009 1:22 AM PDT]
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"Your call is very important to us, but-" IF MY CALL WAS IMPORTANT TO YOU, YOU'D ANSWER ME DAMN IT! Or the occasional, "DO you want to buy a fine set of new cuttlery?" No thanks, but do you have Battletoads? [Edited on 06.11.2009 3:57 PM PDT]
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Last time I was with my friend I pretended I was a chicken on the phone. The other time I started pretending I was a Jehovas witness or whatever they are, and I asked if they want to hear about Jesus.
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I usually ask them "what are you wearing?" in a creepy Spanish accent.
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I start singing Kiss Me Through The Phone. Usually it makes them hang up first. =P
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i make a loud obnoxious walrus noise and then hang up
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play the song "I wanna F'ck a dog in the ass" By blink182
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I asked them if they can help me with my Math equations LOL
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i heard of one guy that acted like a detective and accused the telemarketer of the crime for calling the phone at a "crime scene"
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] iownedu720 Noone's going to read this but I like confusing them: "I'm sorry." "Can I ask you some questions?" "About....?" "Cleaning Products..." "What else?" "That's all." "Alrighty then Bye!" "Hello!" "Hey Buuuuudy." "Hello Sir, may I ask you some questions?" "Umm...What?" "Questions." "Sure?" "When was the last time you checked your furnace?" "Oh just last night." "Ok." "I mean last year! I get those confused!" "Well did you know that dirt starts blah blah blah blah?" "Did you know that On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day...?" "No..." "Can I have a second please?" "1."[/quote]lol
