[Lijahsbubbe]

I always hang up on total strangers who can't pronounce my name but try to make me think they "care" by asking, "How are you today?"

I like to tell them they have the wrong number.

[Texas Federalist]

An Andy Roony suggestion was that the best thing to do for telemarketers is to tell them to "hold on a second . . .", then place the receiver of the phone on the table and continue about your day. When you hear the beeping sound coming from your phone, you know the telemarketer has given up on you and hung up. This certainly takes more of their time than merely hanging up on them and, if we all did this, would increase the cost of telemarketing tenfold as a one second hangup would take at least 10-15 seconds. He also suggested sending your junk mail back to the company that sent it to you in the postage paid envelope provided.