Telemarketing call stories

[Jessika]

Well, once when they called and ask if this was the lady of the house I ask which lady do you want, this is a whore house......They hung the phone up in a hurry!!!!!! I know that sounded bad but it's a quick solutation to the problem

...this is CLASSIC!

[lvpets2002]

I have been known to bang the receiver against the table several times.. Usally they hang up then.. Also when they ask if I am the person of the house I will say no, but can I have them call you back.. Click they hang up again..

[Sirrahsim]

Apparently my voice sounds young over the phone because telemarketers would always ask to speak with my Mom or Dad Thank goodness for the Do Not Call list!!

[gini]

Even after the Do Not Call list came about, I still get a lot of telemarketing calls.
Because of caller ID, I don't pick them up. But I have reported them on the complaint feature of the Do Not Call list.

My biggest complaint is that I receive a lot of faxes selling stocks, insurance and other things. It bugs me because they are always in huge bold type and use tons of toner to print out. Those little cartridges are expensive!

Once, they gave a fax number for me to use to send something back to them.
I sent their original fax back to them about a dozen times. Haven't heard from them since.

I have reported those too, if there is a phone number to report. It seems to have helped because I receive a lot less of them.

[Catlady711]

My step mom does a great poor hillbilly accent. I mean like hatfield and mccoy live in a one room shack kinda accent like on tv. She also happens to LOVE to get sales people going. So some guy calls wanting to give her a credit card. She goes on and on asking questions about what you can buy with a credit card and at first the caller gets all excited thinking he's got a sale. Then she hits him with the 'well I don't have any money and the bank won't give me anymore so it would be great if we had a credit card, all that free money would really help because I've got 8 kids (she doesn't) and we just live in this ol' one room shack papa built for us. Wow with a credit card we could even have indoor plumbing.' Usually by this time the sales people hang up on her.

My own mom loves to mess with them too. Once some door to door magazine sales people came to sell her a dozen subscriptions to stuff she doesn't read. So she said she was sorry but since they didn't carry any porn she couldn't possibly subscribe (she don't watch porn BTW). Usually they stammer then leave with very red faces hearing this from a 'nice old lady'. ROFL

She also once got a guy on the phone selling carpeting (she rents mind you). She asked a TON of questions about materials, durability, and instalation services. They answered the questions with enthusiasm and pushed for an instalation date and sale. She said that would be fine with her if they could guarantee installment over a dirt floor. The guy stammered then asked again for clarification before finally hanging up. ROFL

[Suki Wingy]

We have caller ID but if I do pick up, I usually politley decline then hang up because I feel sorry for them. I hate phones and I can only imagine having to sit around all day and class complete strangers only to be harrased.

[RedHedd]

I'm on the Do No Call list however I still get telemarketing calls. My first response, my only response to them is "please put me on your do not call list." They are required by law to do so. I almost never get calls anymore. Problem solved