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Here’s the best method for handling a telemarketer
wordpress.com ^ | August 4, 2012 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

Posted on 08/04/2012 1:49:34 PM PDT by grundle

Lots of YouTube videos claim to be the “best” way to handle a telemarketer – but this one really does deserve that label. This is, by far, the best one that I have ever seen:

Here’s the best method for handling a telemarketer

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To: R. Scott
I just ask them to wait a minute, then I put the phone down and start banging pots and pans around if I am in the kitchen. If I am in my bedroom I talk to my dogs. If I am in my studio I turn up Rush, or Hannity or Michael Berry. I never go back to the phone and they get tired of waiting and hang up. Sometimes they get furious and call me right back and hang up on me. Makes me laugh. I have put both my numbers on do-not-call list repeatedly so I think they should know that.
41 posted on 08/04/2012 6:05:06 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: grundle
My method wastes (for me) the least amount of time.

"Oh listen... Can you hold on just a sec? I'll be right back." Then put the phone down and hang it up later.

42 posted on 08/04/2012 6:08:00 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: grundle

I had one years ago who wanted to “axe” me. I axed to speak to her supervisor and threatened to call the authorities.


43 posted on 08/04/2012 6:11:07 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: grundle

Phone: "Hi. Would you be interested in switching over to TMI Long Distance service?"
Seinfeld: "Oh, gee, I can't talk right now. Why don't you give me your home number and I'll call you later."
Phone: "Uh, sorry, we're not allowed to do that."
Seinfeld: "Oh, I guess you don't want people calling you at home."
Phone: "No."
Seinfeld: "Well, now you know how I feel."

44 posted on 08/04/2012 6:19:15 PM PDT by workerbee (June 28, 2012 -- 9/11 From Within)
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To: Sacajaweau
You don't owe them an explanation.
The best way is just hang up.
45 posted on 08/04/2012 6:33:03 PM PDT by Salman
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To: Lorianne

Set the recever on the table and walk away, go about your business.
***That is a very poor idea. They can prove they were on the phone with you for a long time. They charge you for some service, give you the runaround, etc.


46 posted on 08/04/2012 8:28:46 PM PDT by Kevmo ( FRINAGOPWIASS: Free Republic Is Not A GOP Website. It's A Socon Site.)
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To: grundle

One thing I do is preach the gospel of Christ to them. They invariably ask, “what does this have to do with AluminumSiding/Insurance/AirFilters/whatever”? I say, “Well, obviously, that’s important to you. But probably not important to me. Your eternal soul is important to you, me, and God, so it’s more important than ___fillintheblank___. “ It often works, and my time is not wasted.

For those telemarketers who claim to be christian already, I offer to pray with them right there that God will give them a better job than telemarketing. They appreciate it.


47 posted on 08/04/2012 8:31:57 PM PDT by Kevmo ( FRINAGOPWIASS: Free Republic Is Not A GOP Website. It's A Socon Site.)
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To: Kevmo
For those telemarketers who claim to be christian already, I offer to pray with them right there that God will give them a better job than telemarketing. They appreciate it.

I hope it works for them too.

48 posted on 08/04/2012 10:19:58 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle
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49 posted on 08/04/2012 11:17:00 PM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (Nothing so vexes me as a Democrat above ground. Enforce the Bill of Rights.)
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To: Revolting cat!
Wow, who knew? On second thought, that's what burglars do as well!

A burglar can take advantage of you without your permission. I'd love to meet the telemarketer that talented.

50 posted on 08/05/2012 3:29:50 PM PDT by stevem
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To: stevem

Telemarketers take advantage of you through deception.


51 posted on 08/05/2012 3:38:02 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: grundle
Anyone who calls you and tells you that you won a free satellite dish is not trying to earn an honest living - they are a con artist.

Such folks have yet to convince me to buy anything. When you find folks that want something for nothing, send them my way. I have vacation land with a view I am willing to let go cheap...it's on Europa.

When someone can convince me that aggressively marketing a legal product isn't honorable work, I'll be ready to vote for for Obama.

Bill Clinton wanted to protect people from telemarketers. Yikes! It's hard to believe the clinton Presidency wasn't the stuff of Lincoln.

52 posted on 08/05/2012 3:42:31 PM PDT by stevem
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To: Revolting cat!
Telemarketers take advantage of you through deception.

All sales people do. In my business law class it was called "fluff." I'm getting old so don't remember everything of my youth. I remember that, even though I studied it roughly forty years ago.

When selling things starts to be illegal, we can kiss the free world, "Goodbye."

53 posted on 08/05/2012 3:50:24 PM PDT by stevem
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To: class8601_nuke
isn’t falsely representing yourself as a law enforcement officer a crime? (maybe felony?)

Never heard Tom Mabe before? LOL. A telemarketer calls and the person acts like a homicide detective at the seen of a death. Starts asking them guy questions and ask if he was the deceased gay lover. Ask where he's at then tells yells hey get {name of city homicide} on the phone.

54 posted on 08/05/2012 4:06:11 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: grundle

what’s so hard about just hanging up?


55 posted on 08/05/2012 4:12:46 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (the mature Christian is almost impossible to offend)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

We have a whistle, I don’t use it though, hub has. I just tell them I’m dirt poor and never buy anything, ever, and probably can’t pay property tax and will lose the house and don’t have credit cards.

End of conversation usually.


56 posted on 08/05/2012 4:26:43 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: InvisibleChurch

If you hang up - even if you first ask them to please stop calling - they continue calling anyway. When the same company calls dozens of times, they deserve to be toyed with.


57 posted on 08/05/2012 9:04:23 PM PDT by grundle
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