Posted on 01/17/2016 7:53:02 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
For most of us, the National Do Not Call Registry is a blessing we could scarcely live without. After all, it keeps us from getting annoying calls at all hours of the day.
However, for this gentleman, you can tell that a telemarketing call isn’t just an annoyance, it's an opportunity!
Or you can do what I do. I pick up the phone and when they say who they are I say “can you hold on a minute?” They say yes and I put the phone down and walk away. After a few minutes they hang up. After a while they quit calling your number.
(After a minute or two of listening to their spiel), “Ohhh...you’re trying to SELL me something! I thought you were just another collection agency.”
Most phone calls eventually go thru a digital network. The bandwidth is about 300-4000 HZ and the peak volume is also limited when the analog voice is digitized. The end result is that the high pitch (frequency) and loudness are a lot less than you think.
But if it works - go for it.
Oh yes, Rachel, she is still calling me. What did you do to make them stop calling?
Yeah, I’ve blocked that probably 40 times but they always find a new number to call from.
That’s great. Who knows, it might even cause someone to reflect on their eternity and eventually accept Jesus Christ as Savior.
Once I told the Card Services guy that I thought Rachel was hot, and asked for her phone number.
To my amazement, he gave me a number (which I have long since forgotten).
I translated the numbers into letters, and came up with a well-known seven-letter obscene expression.
No, I never called that number.
Me too :)
Me three. It works for me. I have thought about doing some heavy breathing but haven't tried that yet.
Do Not Call registry is a joke. Doesn’t work, doesn’t stop telemarketers. (And may are calling from off-shore or mexico, therefore they have nothing to fear from calling. . .and they spoof numbers so there is no way to discover who they are without answering the phone, and even then, they will lie.
Solution, turn off the ringer and the next step—for me—is to drop the land-line. (The land-line I have is connected to my alarm). You would think phone companies would be working this issue hard and a solution found by now.
No one prosecutes violators. . .they simply don’t care.
Like the TSA, it is all kabuki theater to make it seem like something is done.
A loud whistle by the phone works to blow out telemarketer ears—very painful.
Here is a funny way to deal with them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7OgWcwgB50&feature=iv&src_vid=mkdoogjic4I&annotation_id=annotation_420523
Priceless.
“However it is another human being on the other side of the line trying to make an honest living. Just hang up and move on.”
I used to believe that but not anymore.
They are intrusive, ever-present, annoying and they are intruding unwanted into my life at all hours. Why should I have to answer their calls and then hang up? Especially when the call is done by computer and they ignore the Do Not Call registry.
They are violating the law and should be prosecuted. They are frauds, scum.
“but I have angered a couple enough so that they call me back on a non-spoofed number, which I then forward to the Attorney General’s office.”
But has the Attny Gen ever done anything?
By answering you validate your number as “active” and the telemarketers sell your number to the next telemarketers/scammers.
They spoof their number and they will not give out their details. So the Do Not Call registry does not work. . .doesn’t help that the FTC doesn’t prosecute them, either.
An former coworker of mine would just wait until the guy had made his spiel and say:
“I’m naked. What are you wearing?”
They usually hung up right after that.
I'd add for the men:
1. Have you stopped beating your wife yet?
2. Have you stopped beating your girlfriend yet? (if not married)
3. Did your mother breastfeed you until you were 10 or something?
4. The other kids picked on you a lot didn't they?
5. Tell me, what kind of college degree does it take to do your job?
6. Were you sexually molested by an uncle or something? 7. How do you keep your 1974 Ford Pinto hatchback running on your salary?
8. What lies do you tell girls at McDonalds when trying to pick them up?
9. How is it someone like you on the sex offenders list can be a telemarketer? 10. Do you know Laz?
For women telemarketers:
1. When's the last time you did a breast self exam?
2. Did it feel good?
3. Doesn't your boyfriend/husband check for you?
4. So, what's it feel like to be 4'3", 300 pounds and no sex life anyway?
5. When's the last time you took a shower because I can smell you from here.
6. Someone wasn't popular with the other girls now were they?
7. Maybe the convent would've been a better choice for you?
8. Your parents didn't love you did they?
9. Have you procreated? Please tell me you haven't!
10. Do you know Laz?
And then of course, there’s always the “Danny Devito” approach in “Ruthless People.”
“I love wrong numbers.”
I like the decreased one. I’ve also used the one where, when you pick it up you say: “Hold on...someone’s at the door.” and just leave the phone on the counter. I’ve checked it about a minute later and they’re never still on the line.
I asked one how many “last chance last calls” I get since it was the fourth one.
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