Here's an evil way to get rid of telemarketers from calling you!

[Raineyrocks]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5z4Vs26-TI

[K. Darien Freeheart]

I've seen that before. It is quite possibly the world's best prank.

On the flip side, it shows just how cowed people are when it comes to the police. The guy is unaware and just keeps talking.

[Raineyrocks]

I've seen that before. It is quite possibly the world's best prank.

On the flip side, it shows just how cowed people are when it comes to the police. The guy is unaware and just keeps talking.

I think a lot of people are conditioned to fear authority, your right. The more and more I learn about what suckers the majority of people are, (including myself), the more I am hating authority and seeing it for what it is.

I have read several books explaining how the "few" can control the "masses" and it's really quite simple for "them".   The only thing we, (masses), have to do is realize their strategy which as I said is simple and I believe we could easily beat them at their own game.

[AnarcSyn]

Angry telemarketer calls man back and berates him for hanging up on her (w/video containing audio transcript of call)

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8916483

[grasshopper]

  I record the calls and tell them to stop calling, if they call again, I tell them the committed a felony by calling.  That usually does it.
  Oh by the way, are any of you guys getting calls from New Brunswik telling you that your car warrantee is almost up and they want to get information to get it extended?  I get them 7-8 times a week, they keep calling and I keep screaming at them.  I'll get a call at around 12:30 during the day and at night around 8.  I hate them and wished bad stuff on them, real bad stuff and I'm not usually like that.

[doobie]

  I record the calls and tell them to stop calling, if they call again, I tell them the committed a felony by calling.  That usually does it.
  Oh by the way, are any of you guys getting calls from New Brunswik telling you that your car warrantee is almost up and they want to get information to get it extended?  I get them 7-8 times a week, they keep calling and I keep screaming at them.  I'll get a call at around 12:30 during the day and at night around 8.  I hate them and wished bad stuff on them, real bad stuff and I'm not usually like that.

I hate those extended warranty people.  I usually keep the telemarketers going for as long as they'll let me without giving them any information.

[margomaps]

Just insist on ordering a pizza from the telemarketer.   Whatever they say, respond with a pizza-ordering phrase, such as...

"Do your anchovies taste really fishy?" or...
"No no no, I only want sausage on half the pizza.  The left half, not the right half like last time -- that was gross." or...
"My friend told me that the word 'pizza' is Italian for 'pie made with love?'  What do you think about that?"

They hate this sort of thing.

[KBCraig]

When we had a household landline phone, our unwanted calls dropped to zero after signing up for do-not-call. (Not that I support the government running such a list.)

These days, we have nothing but cell phones, and one landline that is a business phone. We don't have a telemarketing problem with that phone, although the merchant services people hammered us pretty hard at first.

[Pat K]

Some time when folks cant take no for
an answer, I will talk to them for a long time
about what ever their selling.

One time on a lazy afternoon watching a ball game
some guy insisted on getting me a home equity loan.
Well we had a nice chat about the loan for about 45
minutes, as the ball game was over, I asked him
If I had to tell the landlord I was taking out the
home loan. He was very upset, said what are you crazy
you cant take out a loan on some one Else's home.
I said hey you called me.

[Lloyd Danforth]

A friend of mine, now deceased, would tell people up front that he wasn't interested in whatever they had to offer. Then he would let them drone on until they realized he's let them waste their own time.

[grasshopper]

  I hate them. ( not really but it is fun saying it).

[Lloyd Danforth]

Almost every time the Verison phone in the other room rings it is some recording for something.  Doesn't happen on the VOIP.  Call our friend. Perhaps he is taking new customers.

[KBCraig]

"Way back when", when I had no cell phone, just a landline without caller ID, it got so bad that I would tell them I'd love to hear more, then set the phone down while they droned on and on, reading their script. When I'd hear the inevitable "Hello? Hello?" from the handset, I'd pick it up and say, "Oh, I'm so sorry, the baby was crying and I had to run to the next room. Can you tell me about that again?"

They usually caught on after a couple of rounds of that. If not... hey, at least it kept the phone tied up so no other telemarketers could call.

[ali-cat]

btw, you could actually get yourselves in a lot of trouble if you don't tell them the call is being recorded. highly illegal. not that i think anyone here really cares about that