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telemarketers.....

katrina

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I just got off the phone with a telemarketer for the VFW.
I listened, was polite and after I heard what he had to say, I politely told him that I was not interested... He wanted to know if we were financially strapped. I told him that it was not any of his buisness. Then he went into this spiel about how I didn't care about our troops and the veterans. I told him no that was not right I just didn't want to donate... He was real pushy and demanding... No matter what I said he counter with the fact that I didn't support the vets and our troops........UGH!!!!!!! :mad: :mad: :mad:
I wish I could file a complaint.. We are on the no call list and they still keep calling...... :mad: :mad: :mad:
 

Faster horses

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They do, don't they Katrina.

The Salvation Army never calls and that is where most of our donations go. I have learned to say this: No.1) I don't donate to organizations who call on the phone and 2.)I have already chosen who I am donating to for the year

That seems to help. I can't believe they call on Sunday even.
 

lazy ace

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I am a little rude when it comes to telemarketers. There was one time I told them we weren't interested and they kept on talking so I asked them if they wanted to buy a bull? They had know idea what to say, so I rattled off some epd's and then he got wise and said he didn't have any cows. Well I said this was your lucky day because we were selling heifers too. :D Well it didn't take long before he hung up on me.

Another girl was selling something and said that if I wasn't interested I would have to hang up on her because it was there policy not to hang up on people. :shock: Well I kept her on the phone for about twenty minutes, I read her articles from the Red Angus Magaizine, Drover's and we really had a nice time just talking. Poor girl begged me to hang up. She finally gave up and hung up on me.

have a cold one

lazy ace
 

passin thru

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One time a gal called and was trying to sell me something(can't remember nowwhat it was). She would not take a no for an answer. I finally told her, she was wasting her time..........just like I would be wasting my time if I asked her for a date. She said "not necesarily"
No matter how much I played this up she wouldn't give up. Her commisions must have been awesome to put up with me. Finally I got her convinced I wasn't buying. The hardest one I ever dealt with. Shoulda just hung up, but it was kinda like a challenge to me.
 

jigs

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I like asking them how the weather is, if the corn looks good, tell them how everything is looking here. then I ask what state they are calling from....then if they tell me the state, I make up some BS about the big bass I caught once while there, was fishing in Mike Stenson's pond, Ya ever been there?? Ya want his number???

I just keep stringing them out until I get bored, or they hang up.


Once I told a gal I spent my last 35 dollars on Vagasil for my sisters birthday. she hung up VERY fast
 

rustynail

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I like to let them give the whole sales pitch and then ask them if they will take food stamps.......................click. :p

G3
 

TimH

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:D :D

Breathe through your mouth and ask them what they are wearing. Works every time.Especially on the males. I'm pretty sure that most of them have put me on a blacklist of some sort. I rarely get a call anymore!!
I sort of miss it, actually!!! :wink: :D :D :D :D :D
 

montana cowgurl

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got this in an email from someone...

Here is what you do.

The phone rang as I was setting down to my anticipated evening meal, and as

I answered it I was greeted with " is this William Wagenhoss" not sounding

anything like my name, so I said who is calling? The telemarketer said he

was with The Rubber band Powered Freezer Company or something like that and

then I asked him if he knew William personally and why was he calling this

number. I then said off to the side, "get really good pictures of the body

and all the blood" then turned back to the phone and advised the caller that

he had entered a murder scene and must stay on the line because we had

already traced this call and he would be receiving a summons to appear in

the local courthouse to testify in this murder case.



I then questioned the caller at great length as to his name, address, phone

number at home, at work, who he worked for, how he knew the dead guy and

could he prove where he had been about one hour before he made this call.

The telemarketer was getting very concerned and his answers were given in a

shaky voice. I then told him we had located his position at his work place

and the police were entering the building to take him into custody, at that

point I heard the phone fall and the scurrying of his running away. My wife

asked me as I returned to our table why I had tears streaming down my face

and so help me, I couldn't tell her for about fifteen minutes.


It all depends on my mood, sometimes I feel like having a little fun with them, others I don't. If I don't I just say "Not interested" and hang up before they ask me "why". Or If I am I act like I'm interested while they waste their time talking about the product, let them ramble for a while, then say "Actually, it sounds like a piece of junk...." and hang up.

we have done a joke once were a telemarketer would cal and ask for terry (my dad) and we would be like well he just passed away keep in mind dad is right by me and they start saying I’m so sorry about your loss and stuff like that it is pretty funny

A buddy of mine got a call from one that was selling siding. He was really interested, I mean REALLY. After about 10 to 15 minutes into the conversation he had to stop the guy, and ask him just how much it would take to cover a 8x10 tent. The guy had the nerve to hang up on him.

Ask for their home phone number so you can call them back right in the middle of their dinner.

I have told a few of them that I was the new renter in the house and the guy they are trying to reach went psycho and murdered his family and shot himself in the head. I love their response to that one.

One of the guys in my Relief team did that to Jesse Jackson...walked up to him to shake his hand and said something mostly nonsense with a few real words thrown in. Totally floored Jesse Jackson cause no one wants to admit they didn't understand you so they can't think what to say. Hilarious!!!!!

My father in law does that kind of stuff. It's hilarious to hear him talk to those guy's.

One time the Fraternal Order of Police called and when he answered the phone and told him who they were my father in law said:

"You guy's just won't leave me alone will ya. Now I paid my debt to society and I'm real sorry about what I done, so I'd appreciate you guy's not calling me all the time now that I'm a free man. If ya want to monitor me, just put one of those ankle bracelet tracking devices on me, otherwise don't call back."

He sat there a while waiting for the guy on the phone to say something, but all he heard was the poor guy hang up the phone.

A telemarketer called the other day and was like, "Hello, I am so and so from this corporation, and may I speak to Rick (my dad.)

I go, "Well, I'm sorry ma’am, but he's away in prison right now." (he's not, he's a pastor and he was right by me)

And she goes," Well, alright, umm...bye."

Then she hung up.

Funniest thing ever! We were dying laughing.
 
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