I'm impressed, the best I've done is about 25 minutes...
I’ll never forget the time a telemarketer called a co-worker of mine (who had a great sense of wit) and asked if he would like to sign up for a super duper credit card. He replied “Yes, that’s great, my wife just left me and cleaned out our bank account. I need money!” The caller slammed the phone down and never called again.
Shucking the land line over a year ago was one of the best things we’ve ever done since 95% of the calls were telemarketers or robo scams.
If AT&T wanted robocalls stopped completely they could do it tomorrow.
But every seven digit number issued and used represents revenue. And so, like the BP gas station offering an EV charge facility, talk about successful blocking is PR hackery for the consumption by the gullible - including the Weekly Standard writer.
The federal alphabet agencies’ policies and laws are weak and outdated. These are the same agencies, mind you, that we were promised would be benevolent omnipotent cops enforcing ‘net neutrality.’
Hazing telemarketers may be amusing and occasionally effective but until and unless the telcos get serious about the misuse of their networks no large scale change will happen.
Bkmk
Maybe people should just use this method: HANG UP THE PHONE.
I love to do this with the guys from “Windows Support.” My best is 35 minutes. I was pushed up the line three times. Each person I spoke to on the way up, amazingly, spoke better Engrish than the person before. Their final comment to me was, “You waste me time, goodbye.”
I had one call for some kind of Medicare item almost all paid for. He was oriental and hard to understand. I kept him on for about 20 minutes so I could locate my card number and I finally told him I would search for it some more and he agreed to call me the next day which he did and I continued to waste his time 2 more days. The next day my wife grabbed the phone and yelled at him, “This a hospice home and all of them are dying very soon and stop calling the patients!”
End of that story.
My friend holds the record. Someone called him to sell him vitamins. He was watching a game and it wasn’t very good, so he played with them. Asked detailed questions, figured out a plan for him and started giving them the credit card number.... only just about 4 numbers when he would have another question! They would chase down a supervisor and find the answer. He’d do that again.... and again....
They finally hung up on him.... after 2 hours!
‘Hello, This Is Lenny’
http://www.tormentingtelemarketers.com/2015/05/telemarketers-probably-dont-like-lenny/