Posted on 08/04/2012 1:49:34 PM PDT by grundle
"Oh listen... Can you hold on just a sec? I'll be right back." Then put the phone down and hang it up later.
I had one years ago who wanted to “axe” me. I axed to speak to her supervisor and threatened to call the authorities.
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."
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.
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.
I hope it works for them too.
A burglar can take advantage of you without your permission. I'd love to meet the telemarketer that talented.
Telemarketers take advantage of you through deception.
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.
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."
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.
what’s so hard about just hanging up?
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.
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.
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