Telemarketing annoyance

I got one of those TeleZappers at Radio Shack about 6 months ago and I also have my phone number set to not allow calls from blocked numbers. Between the two things, it's cut down the telemarketing calls about 90%.

take some time out of your day and make it fun trust me its worth the humor. when they call you asking such and such give them a lead, make up big BS storys and just start talking to them

Do what I do: Say "hey, great, I'm very interested, just hang on a sec while I go turn the music down", then I just put down the phone (don't hang up) and carry on with what I'm doing. Ten minutes later I hang up (they've always given up by then)
I've been doing this for a while, and I seldom get telemarketing calls now.

That is NO fun.

You have to have fun with them.

I remember once I got a call, the telemarketer was a lady with a deep southern accent, asked if my wife was home. I asked her who is calling, and she went head first into a sales pitch. I tried my best not to laugh, as I heard her struggle reading her sales pitch script, tripping on words and such. You can easily tell she had a hard time reading it. This was the longest sales pitch I have ever heard, and I was not even the one she wanted to speak with. After she was done, I asked her to repeat all that, since I didnt really hear it all since my radio was on. SHe paused for a few seconds, probably hating me to hell (along with her job), and she went full blast into the speech again... still tripping over words and such.

I let her finish again, and I ask her to repeat it again because I had the doorbell ring before and had to put down the fone, so I didnt hear what she just said again. Another long pause, and she went right at it, again. Mid-way through the pitch, I cut her off, and asked her, 'Wouldnt you rather have a job where people WANTED to speak with you, and didnt hang up on you?'. Before she could answer, I hung up.

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Keep a whistle next to the telephone? :D

Triple 6: Cool story