November 28, 2007
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On an average, how many junk email do you get a day?Creative ways to deal with telemarketers
- Answer the phone. As soon as you realize it is a Telemarketer, set the receiver down, shout or scream, “Oh No!!!” and then hang up.
- Tell the Telemarketer you are busy at the moment and ask him/her if he/she will give you his/her HOME phone number so you can call him/her back. When the Telemarketer explains that telemarketers cannot give out their HOME numbers you say “I guess you don’t want anyone bothering you at home, right?” The Telemarketer will agree and you say, “Me, either!” Hang up.
- Ask them to repeat everything they say, several times.
- Tell them it is dinner time, BUT ask if they would please hold. Put them on your speaker phone while you continue to eat at your leisure. Smack your food loudly and continue with your dinner conversation.
- Tell the Telemarketer you are on “home incarceration” and ask if they could bring you a pizza.
- Ask them to fax the information to you, and make up a number.- Insist that the caller is really your buddy Leon, playing a joke. “Come on Leon, cut it out! Seriously, Leon, how’s your mom?”
- Tell them you are hard of hearing and that they need to speak up… louder… louder…louder…
- Tell them to talk VERY SLOWLY, because you want to write EVERY WORD down.
Or put them on hold.
Quotes from Winston Churchill.A fanatic is one who …who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject
A joke is a very …serious thing.
Attitude is a little thing that …makes a big difference.
Comments (21)
The thing about MOST telemarketers is that when you tell them NO they don’t let GO.
In fact, MOST of them get MORE aggressive when you try to get rid of them nicely!!!!
They are tough cookies.
I can get up to 300 a day at my one yahoo account, most get snagged by the filter there.
I usually tell them that I’m not intersted and just hang up…. must really suck to have that as a job
You INSPIRED me, I just put up a new post about Telephone Solicitors and BTW, I linked here to YOUR post (hope you don’t mind!)
I had to hang up on 3 telemarketers yesterday… they just wouldn’t take no for an answer! I hate that they are allowed to call with their numbers blocked… how can you prove that they keep calling when you tell them not to?
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. Sir Winston Churchill
This is a great post, go read my comment about it over at XD’s! (Clintspirations)
Well … seeing as how my son was a telemarketer for a brief time, I know that they are simply people trying to get some type of income — which is better than those people who are content simply collecting their welfare check. So, I try to be patient and polite with them (when I don’t let the answering machine take the call), because that’s how I would like to be treated.
I don’t give telemarketers a chance. If I don’t hear a hello after I say something, then I hang up. Though, I should have fun every once in a while.
Junkmail. I don’t count, I just delete. Fortunately not too many due to the filtering software we have.
As for the quotes….I have no clue.
I used to work for a telemarketing company doing surveys over the phone. I hated it but needed a job. Now when telemarketers call me I will do a survey because I know what it is like but if they are selling something I usually tell them that the owner of the home is away and won’t be back for a while.
A fanatic is a person who is single minded, obsessed and won’t listen to anyone who thinks differently, even if that person makes a good point.
A joke is very funny if it doesn’t offend or make a person feel bad.
Attitude is a little thing that can determine how successful you are in life in every aspect.
I try to be christian and say,”I’m sorry I’m not interested” and hang up and if they call a second time I will say,”you’re not suppose to call more then once.”
hey, those are hard ones. I like his quotes and won’t even guess what he said,lol. he was a real character.
i avoid telemarketers by not picking up the phone when i don’t recognize a number on my caller id. those are funny and creative ways to deal with it though.
*laughs* Junk email?? I dont know, I set my filter and set it to automatically delete junk email
usually takes care of the problem!
As far as telemarketers go…I just hang up
<3Ashley
I dont’ have telemarketers call because I renewed my do not call list. But I try not to be too rude if one gets through because some of my favorite family have had to do that horrible job. I get about 15 junk emails a day and delete them without reading. Who really falls for those any way?
RYC about the lady who put an add in the paper; she needs to pull out her Cathcism and find out the truth before she spreads stuff around like that. She doesn’t sound very Catholic to me.
i try to share the gospel with the telemarketer
Oddly enough, usually I listen, and if I’m genuinely not interested in the product, I tell them I appreciate their time but I won’t be buying. I say, “I know if I were making these calls, I’d like to know if I were wasting my time. Wouldn’t you?” Usually they say yes, thank me for my time and hang up.
Better yet… insist it is your buddy Leon if the caller is a woman
I LOVE TELEMARKETERS! I SING TO THEM!!!
I sing this to them, “Take a look it’s in a book, reading rainbow!!” I sing like Ethel Merman when I sing it too! It’s a riot, brightens my day and everything! They usually don’t know what to do! Most of them crack up, or they’re speechless, or they say, “Mam, are you alright?” Then I break into, “it’s alright now, baby it’s a alright now!”
Oddly, the telemarketers hang up before I do! – Go figure…
I was a telemarketer for six months selling magazine subscriptions. I was scared to take the job thinking I’d be cussed out constantly. I worked in the evening and the calls started on the east coast and went west as the time passed so at the end of my shift I was calling Hawaii and Guam. I was never cursed at and people were nice. I was always very nice, too.
Look, if you do not want to talk to the telemarketer just hang up normally. Time is definitely money, and paultry money because this is commission, to them so you don’t have to hate to hang up on them or feel guilty. Please do not hold on if you are not interested. Let them get on to the next call! True they are encouraged to keep asking you to buy because as long as the customer is on the phone they are a potential sale. Plus remember telemarketers are working under immediate supervision and if they do not follow the plan they are fired real fast.
Can you believe that while I dreaded this job I can honestly say it was the most enjoyable thing I’ve ever done. I loved calling people cold, just out of the blue. I was so interested in them. You can take in so much by hearing the background noises. You quickly learn to discern large rooms and small rooms, cooking, kids, all kinds of pets. I would ask stuff like what’s the dog’s name? Do you make your own tomato sauce? Things like that. I just love talking to people and lots of times they’d end up buying more than one subscription. Those who did not appreciate the interruption would say no thanks or just hang up – not rudely but just a hang up. I always exceeded my goal which made me feel good and I always left the office into the bitter dark winter night realizing what a wonderment America is.
I will try to use some of these the NEXT time THEY call……….
Tele mark eters…
At times I have the hardest time understanding them.
The Broken English…
I don’t normally pick up the phone if it is an 800 # , 888 # or #’s that I don’t know.
Have A NICE Week Ahead.
Susie :0)