Credit Card Telemarketers

[Mosh]

I have had at least 20 calls this week tryig to "save you money" on my CC processing fees. I am starting to get mad. I am going to Punjab the next one that calls me.

I talk like Punjab from India and see how long I can keep them on them line...

 

[tsgstl]

I don't even say a word anymore. If there is a long pause before anyone speaks I just hang up.
Or if they say "hello" like they are the ones answering the phone.

 

[Mosh]

Will do Pat....

 

[gabagoo]

I get the duct cleaning jerk offs calling my house at least once a month...Now i just start quacking at them and then hang up....


If we all forced these companies to set up appointments to see us and then stiff them, the calls would stop

 

[tsgstl]

its simple economics, there is obviously enough people that respond to the calls that it is worth having the calls made

 

[Guerilla Signs]

I have started having fun with them seeing how long they will put up with me before hanging up. The longest so far has been just over two minutes.

I started out telling them that I don't have any credit cards so take me off their list and that did not work. So I decided that since they are that stupid then I would mess with them and have a little fun.

 

[Pat Whatley]

I love it when they call and tell the they're going to have a salesperson in my area in the next couple of days and want to know if he can stop by. I'll always agree and tell them to send him over, when they do I tell them just to leave their best offer on the counter and I'll look at it later. When they ask (and the always ask) to see my current statement I just tell them they don't need that info in order to make me their BEST offer. Most of them have to call the office, stand around in the parking lot on the phone smoking cigarettes, then eventually just get in the car and leave.

I figure I can waste a little of their time as well.

 

[ChicagoGraphics]

I get a lot of calls for either investments or health insurance, for the health insurance I tell them I'm waiting for my Obama care to kick in then all I hear is click, lol
The investments I always ask if there that good why you calling me, dump all of your own money into it and be a billionaire over night, click

 

[anotherdog]

don't forget the nice guys from Microsoft telling you your apple has a virus.

I had one guy telling me he can detect viruses on all platforms and if I'll just type the following into my browser...

My second favourite is booking the guy from the duct cleaning company to go to a fake address then denying all knowledge when the salesman calls from 50 miles away...I do feel a little guilty about that...just a little.

 

[TheSnowman]

I'm going to have to use that quack technique. That's a good idea there.

Whenever I say hello and it takes 2 seconds, or like said before, they say "Hello" as if they were the ones answering, it's bye bye. I used to listen to them to make them not feel like they get beat up by everyone, but seemed like no one could understand the words "no thanks" so I just started slamming the phone. The best is not actually making contact and just beating the handset against the phone pad for a while before the "click".

 

[d fleming]

If I see it is a sales call on caller id I answer it "Domino's, will this be for takeout or delivery". They hang up and don't call back.

 

[SightLine]

I get several a week as well from the CC ones. Very annoying, their latest game is trying to push to have an appointment in person. "We will have a manager in the area next tuesday" blah blah blah. Always fun to mess with them in various ways. Ask them what they are wearing, can you email a picture of your calves, etc. you can tell pretty quick when you really get bizarre that they are suddenly uncomfortable and their pushiness just dies off.

 

[gabagoo]

Now at work I get a weekly call from of all places...GOOGLE!!! at the end of the pre recorded sales call it says to have this message stop calling press 5 and then next week they call again.... I don't think this type of marketing is very smart for high profile companies to be using...but as was said, somebody...and a lot of somebodies seem to be biting.

Nothing worse than being alone in the shop and in the middle of applying something and the damn phone rings.....thinking it could be the client you have been waiting for to pick up something you make an attempt to stop and get the phone so he doesn't think you scoffed off early, only to be greeted with the ship whistle recording!!!! OH I hate that.

 

[Caitlin]

I usually just tell them to call back and ask for Mike though there is no mike.

 

[Fred Weiss]

If I see it is a sales call on caller id I answer it "Domino's, will this be for takeout or delivery". They hang up and don't call back.

I do similar except I just answer "Order Department" and ask how I may be of service when they start pitching.

 

[ucmj22]

They usually ask me to speak to the owner, or the person in charge of payments, so I tell them sure, just a sec. Then I put them on hold until they drop off.
if you're gonna waste my time, I'm gonna waste yours.

 

[Joe Diaz]

You know, I just recently signed us up on the "do not call" registry, skeptical of the results of course, but I've been pleasantly surprised at the decreased number of telemarketers we have to deal with now.

 

[SignManiac]

Do not call list is a huge help. I've been signed up for the past five years and get very few nuisance calls.

However??? I just had a bright idea. I'm going to buy an air horn, and when they refuse to stop delivering their sales pitch after I've been kind enough to say no thanks, I'm going to blast the horn right up to the phone and shatter their ear drums. Yeah that should do the trick.

 

[fixtureman]

Just give them the address of the police station

 

[ChicagoGraphics]

I use to get the one with the ship horn to, Googles been calling me every day to make something current, i just hang up on them. It's the hindu's that are fun to mess with saying there from Chicago when in fact there not, there's no ocean here

 

[Mike Paul]

Do not call list helps a little but if they violate it you need to report them so they get fined.
Whistle, air horn, or tell them to go **** their dead mother when the noise maker isn't in arms reach...

 

[slappy]

i've been constantly telling them that i just switched and we're locked into a contract and satisfied with how it is (click)... i believe it's working cause it's been a awhile since we have had a call.

When i was a telemarketer a long time ago, a good cheat to be deleted from feeds is to say " sorry, my husband/wife/spouse works for the same company your calling from and we already have it, thanks" (click)


when they ask for the business owner, i tell them i haven't seen him for months and if you find him, he owes me a lot of money... (click)

donotcall.gov i don't even bother with anymore

 

[Mosh]

"THE Google, on WHAT, THE GOOGLE??" is what I say..when they ask for my e-mail I give them my street address...I tell them my wife must have signed me up....they get lost soon after I lay the phone down and Punjab pretends to beat his wife (while I beat on the phone and scream). I am taping the next call for sure!!!

Here is the result of one telemarketer's call...http://us.justdial.com/NE/Nebraska_City/Punjab_Snack_Shak/near_s_13th_st_2nd_corso/0014365889

BTW that is my phone so don't call me unless you want to talk to Punjab!!!