Telemarketing call stories

[Alysser]

I usually don't answer but sometimes I do just for fun. If I start speaking in Spanish most of them hang up.

[crazyboutanimals]

oh i have got one for ya:

when they call i tell them that i would like to get there name and phone number and call them at home to discuss issues and see if they are interested in what i have to say.

**NOW ANYONE UNDER THE AGE OF 18 PLEASE CLOSE YOUR EYES FOR THIS ONE***

one time a man called and i lowered my voice and started moaning the answers to his questions, he paused ALOT and then i got all high pitched and was like "YES YES YES HUH HUH HUH" and he kept asking questions, i told him to hang on a minute and then put the phone up to one of THOSE TAPES ... and you could hear him on the other line say things like " OMG DUDE, listen to this"... and he would start t laugh.. finally he hung up!!! it was tooo funny!!!

[chocolatepuppy]

The other day a man called from a finance company and wanted to know if we wanted to consolidate all of our bills. I told him "you don't have that much money" He hesitated, then laughed and continued on, trying to get me to buy a new car.

[Laura's Babies]

I knew there were some good ones out there...MORE! MORE! MORE!

[Uabassoon]

I have a story from the other side! When I was younger I worked for a company that did phone surveys. So I called and a man answered when I asked if he would be interested in the survey he asked me to give him a good reason as to why he should. I explained that I was in college and I needed this job to earn some extra money for school. He then got excited and explained to me that he had a son in college too and if I was interested he could introduce us! The entire survey he kept talking about his son and how I sounded like a nice, hard working girl and we would be great together. His son sounded like a total dork! When his own father describes him as having a "great personality but a few social issues" and is trying to hook you up with a stranger on the phone you know the guy has some problems!

[Jessika]

When my sister and I were much younger, before the "no-call" list came into play, my parents would get so many telemarketing calls. Normally they'd just give us the phone, because as anyone knows kids looooove talking on the phone to anyone who will listen.

One day my parents were out and I was watchin my sisters when we got one of those infamous calls. When they'd asked if mr or mrs X was home, I started sounding choked up and tried to sound brave and told them my parents had recently been killed in a terrible accident, I forget the details, but the lady sounded very concerned, and sorry for bringing them up and making me upset. Oddly enough after that call we hardly received any more

[columbine]

I used to love to toy with telemarketers, shouting in a fake Eastern Euro accent and acting like I couldn't understand them. But then I started meeting people who couldn't get any job but telemarketing, and it's just such a lousy situation that I couldn't be rotten to them any more. A lot of the time the working conditions are ridiculous, with supervisors standing over them with stopwatches and only one bathroom break a day allowed.

Now I just say "I never respond positively to telemarketers because it's not a practice I want to encourage," or if it's one of those fake charities, "I never make contributions over the phone," and hang up without wasting any more of their (or my) time. These days most of them have such thick Spanish or Indian accents and such awful connections that I can't understand them anyway.