Telemarketing call stories

[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

[K9karen]

Thanks to No Call, I rarely get soliciting calls anymore. But, since I have no backbone (or at least a part of one), and have known people who telemarketed for money while in college, I hate to be rude. I will say, thanks, but no thanks and hang up. One time, I was rude and arrogant and totally pissed and hung up. The guy called me back and yelled at me for hanging up on him! I swear! My friend was sitting right there and we peed ourselves laughing!

[AdoreMyDogs]

I haven't had time to read all these, but the few I've read have been funny. I don't like to be rude to people, so I can't do anything too rude to the telemarketers. Last year I had a funny idea, some telemarketer was trying to give me a 'free trial' to something. I politely told him I wasn't interested, and he blurted out "you don't want such and such free product?" I then told him, "no, I hate free stuff". He and I both laughed and we hung up. I thought it was funny and I'm sure he hadn't heard that before because it caught him off guard.

I've now got this freeking car warrenty place calling me dozens of times per day and they won't stop and they hang up on me when I ask to be taken off their call list. It's makeing me crazy upset. I've had 5 different telemarketers from that blasted company hang up on me now when I ask to be taken off the call list. I wish I could get that company into trouble but I have no idea what company it is, since they keep hanging up on me. They're trying to sell me an extended warrenty on a car I don't even have...I don't have a Jeep but they insist on trying to sell me extended warranty on it, and when I tell them I don't have a jeep, they just hang up on me....GRRRR!