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Dealing with Telemarketers
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Dealing with Telemarketers
It'd take you a long time to blow up or shoot all the sheep in this country, but one diseased banana...could kill 'em all.
I didn't even know sheep ate bananas.
I didn't even know sheep ate bananas.
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drew
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Personally I'm always polite with telemarketers.
I let them go through their entire pitch; and then politly tell them that though whatever it is they are selling sounds great that I'm not interested at this time, but perhaps another time.
I hope that the poor slave on the other end of the line appriciates it.
I let them go through their entire pitch; and then politly tell them that though whatever it is they are selling sounds great that I'm not interested at this time, but perhaps another time.
I hope that the poor slave on the other end of the line appriciates it.
I thought you were a ripe grape
a cabernet sauvignon
a bottle in the cellar
the kind you keep for a really long time
a cabernet sauvignon
a bottle in the cellar
the kind you keep for a really long time
I always try to be polite like that in person, but for me, I hate phones. You call me, I'm going to mess with you. I try not to be a dick, but I'll mess with you.drew wrote:Personally I'm always polite with telemarketers.
I let them go through their entire pitch; and then politly tell them that though whatever it is they are selling sounds great that I'm not interested at this time, but perhaps another time.
I hope that the poor slave on the other end of the line appriciates it.
Avatar wrote:But then, the answers provided by your imagination are not only sometimes best, but have the added advantage of being unable to be wrong.
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Sunbaneglasses
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I act like I am mentally challenged and ask dumb questions. Example: During one political race I got a call, "have you ever heard of Roy Moore", I replied in a voice somewhat Forrest Gumpish "don't he work down at the chicken plant?", when asked if I voted I replied "sometimes they take me down there and let me pull that lever". I have also found out that this approach will always get you out of jury duty, just misspell most of the words on the questionaire, use poor grammer,(even worse than usual) and tell personal bits like, "I dont much know if my car will make it ther my transmison has bin slippin and I aint got no money to fix it. Its not relly a good time for me to do this cause I just started a new job and all, and since my transmison has bin slippin I been late a few days, I don't need to get fired on account my wife has to go to the methadone clinic and all."
I don't have a home phone so I don't get pestered by telemarketers. However, I did play a prank on one who called my mum's place when I was there...I just said, "Hold please"...and muffled the phone for the next five minutes!! 
Guess who hung up?
Guess who hung up? 
"Right away would be good. Right now would be better"
-- Nick Succorso
OK, so what's the speed of dark?- Larry the Cable Guy
My number is unlisted so I'm spared from the scourge. On a completely different note - I had a psycho girlfriend who kept calling - I told her to hold on a little bit - then I proceeded to have dinner, watch a bit of TV...and then I went back to the phone...she was STILL on the other side and somewhat spitting. You would have thought she got the message THEN but OH NO!!!
Anyway - back to topic
Anyway - back to topic
She would have made a fabulous telemarketer.Vain wrote:My number is unlisted so I'm spared from the scourge. On a completely different note - I had a psycho girlfriend who kept calling - I told her to hold on a little bit - then I proceeded to have dinner, watch a bit of TV...and then I went back to the phone...she was STILL on the other side and somewhat spitting. You would have thought she got the message THEN but OH NO!!!
I'm jus' sayin'.
It'd take you a long time to blow up or shoot all the sheep in this country, but one diseased banana...could kill 'em all.
I didn't even know sheep ate bananas.
I didn't even know sheep ate bananas.
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TheUnbelievingDLH
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Got rid of my landline, so not an issue anymore.
But....
-Tell 'em you're in the bathtub.
-Ask if their parents are proud of their child's career choice.
-Ask them if they've found Jesus (in a southern twang).
-Tell them you're so glad they called 'cause you're so lonely.
-Start screaming and throwing stuff around as though you're being robbed/beaten/killed.
-Start talking dirty to them and request that they do the same to you.
But....
-Tell 'em you're in the bathtub.
-Ask if their parents are proud of their child's career choice.
-Ask them if they've found Jesus (in a southern twang).
-Tell them you're so glad they called 'cause you're so lonely.
-Start screaming and throwing stuff around as though you're being robbed/beaten/killed.
-Start talking dirty to them and request that they do the same to you.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Have you hugged your arghule today?
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"For millions of years
mankind lived just like the animals.
Then something happened
that unleashed the power of our imagination -
we learned to talk."
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If PRO and CON are opposites,
then the opposite of PROgress must be...
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It's 4:19...
gotta minute?
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"For millions of years
mankind lived just like the animals.
Then something happened
that unleashed the power of our imagination -
we learned to talk."
________________________________________
If PRO and CON are opposites,
then the opposite of PROgress must be...
_______________________________________
It's 4:19...
gotta minute?
Probably.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
_____________
"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
_____________
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
_____________
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Cameraman Jenn
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I have at least five and sometimes up to fifteen telemarketers a day calling the shop and mispronouncing my bosses name. Once, long ago I had sympathy for telemarketers, now I just have no patience left for them. Keep in mind also that this is on top of the two or three autodial calls we get as well. The ones that you pick up the phone and an automated machine tells you to hold for a very important message. GAH!
Now if I could just find a way to wear live bees as jewelry all the time.....
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While I am not personally attacking the poor buggers who have to work as telemarketers, I wish the heck whoever came up with the idea of bombarding people with unwanted phone calls had thought long and hard & completely REJECTED that idea as a marketing tool... 
"Right away would be good. Right now would be better"
-- Nick Succorso
OK, so what's the speed of dark?- Larry the Cable Guy
I don't get many, but when I do they always call at the worst possible time, such as while you're in the middle of eating.
Plus I could never figure out what part of the word "no" they don't understand. I used to be polite to them, but I found this got me nowhere so now I just tell them that they have the wrong number and hang up.
Every now and again, my name is mispronounced or (worse) they seem to think I'm a deep-voiced woman and call me "Mrs". I detest that. They should do their research before intruding on people's free time for their hardcore sales pitches.
If I wish to purchase something, I'll initiate the contact. In other wards, "Don't call me, I'll call you!"
Sorry for the rant, but that's my 10 cents worth!
Plus I could never figure out what part of the word "no" they don't understand. I used to be polite to them, but I found this got me nowhere so now I just tell them that they have the wrong number and hang up.
Every now and again, my name is mispronounced or (worse) they seem to think I'm a deep-voiced woman and call me "Mrs". I detest that. They should do their research before intruding on people's free time for their hardcore sales pitches.
If I wish to purchase something, I'll initiate the contact. In other wards, "Don't call me, I'll call you!"
Sorry for the rant, but that's my 10 cents worth!
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