Telemarketers (again)

[echnidna]

my opinion :

we all need to work to feed our families except rich kids who dont know how anyway .............the poor dude from the call centre is just doing what he has to do to survive,

cheers big ears. play nice, I always do ....

Such a magnaminous attitude Zed.
Please post your home phone number so those of us who get annoyed can now refer the Indians to your phone. Where we can be sure they will recieve wonderful reactions from you.

[Zed]

(02) 9969 2777


cheers

[shaunburgess]

Do what i did, get a silent number and tell the whmbo not to put your number on any free draws at shopping centres, marketing lists or any other such competitions. I always put my mobile on lists, atleast it cost them money to ring me!

[kiwigeo]

Do what i did, get a silent number

Am being forced to do just that....but again theres a cost involved. I now have to change my business cards and notify everybody of the changes to my phone number.

[HappyHammer]

My cousin was robbed a couple of days later on the same train after accepting a cup of their tea (big urn, boiling milk, sugar and water then add tea leaves yuughhhh), 10 minutes later out cold and woke up some hours later to find his luggage gone but plus a huge headache.
Maybe they have become the telemarketers.

Were the muggers certified or operating illegally?

Sorry couldn't resist.

HH.

[zenwood]

What about this:

"Do you pay the phone bills in your household?"

"Er, yes"

"I'd like to tell you how to save money on your phone bills..."

"I'm very interested in your offer. Could you hold while I get a pen and paper?"

"Yes, sir"

Then put the phone down, without hanging up. Come back half an hour later and see if they're still holding.

[craigb]

I reckon you can always pick them because they always start "hello is that - pause while they read your name - Mr Baker..."

"Yes" I say

"This is soandso. How are you today?"

"I'm well thanks soandso but I don't want anything"

Then I hang up.

Works for me.

It's quick too.

[Zed]

I dont like to be too rude... so I say "you have 10 seconds to tell me what you are selling" this works on the phone or door knockers - they either talk fast, they leave or they hangup...

I then tell sorry not interested. and I get a free joke out of it too...

it can be relatively easy after all...

[Fat Pat]

1. Phone conversation 99. (with apologies to kiwigeo)

(ring ring!!)

Me: hello

Telemarketer: hello is that Mr Fat_Pat (heavy Indian accent)

Me: Who are you and what are you trying to sell me?

Telemarketer: On no Mr Fat_Pat I'm not trying to sell anything.

Me: Oh great, how are you?

Telemarketer: err, I am fine, I wis...

Me: ...how is your wife?

Telemarketer: ummm, she is very well, I would like to tal...

Me: That's great, and your Mother?

Telemarketer: She is fine to. Can I jus...

Me: Wonderful, how are your children?

Telemarketer: ahhh, I don't have any children Mr Fat Pat. But I wis...

Me: Oh I am sorry that you are not blessed with children yet. Are you and your wife planning on having children? Do you wish to have a Son or Daughter first? I feel that a Daughter is very delightful

Telemarketer: Beep Beep Beep

Me: Hello? Hello?

Me: \ Music Starts (Another one bites the dust)

[Cliff Rogers]

(02) 9969 2777


cheers

The Zoo, very good Zed.

[Cliff Rogers]

Mujibar was trying to get into Australia legally through Immigration.

The Immigration Officer said, "Mujibar, you have passed all the tests, except there is one more test. Unless you pass it you cannot enter Australia."

Mujibar said, "I am ready."

The officer said, "Make a sentence using the words Yellow, Pink and Green."

Mujibar thought for a few minutes and said, "Mister Officer, I am ready."

The Officer said, "Go ahead."

Mujibar said, "The telephone goes green, green, green, and I pink it up, and say, 'Yellow, this is Mujibar.'"

Mujibar now lives in a neighborhood near you, and works at Tel$tra in the Call Centre.

[kiwigeo]

I reckon you can always pick them because they always start "hello is that - pause while they read your name - Mr Baker..."

How about this convo I had a few months back:

(ringidy ring ring!!)

Me: hello

Telespammer: Hello.....Mrrrrrrrrr. Errrr Ummmm excuse me but can you please hold while I reboot my computer?

Me: (too busy rolling on the floor with laughter)

[Trav]

Somehow telstra mixed up my first and last names in the phone book. So now I have a super easy way to tell if they are telemarketers in the first 2 secs.

TeleM: Hello is Mr Trav there?

Me: Not anymore...

I know it is rude, but it annoys the sheet out of me.

Trav the 'orrible.

[ozwinner]

(02) 9969 2777


cheers

Your a funny monkey, and you owe me $1.59 for the call.

Al

[Clinton1]

In Melbourne you can go door to door up untill 8.00 pm, which in winter is after dark.
I hate telemarketing and exercise complete equality in my hatred of them.
But doorknockers.... I tell the white anglos that they have no excuse, if they are so desperate for work, then to join the army and get a good wage.
The last one that came knocking after dark I came very very close to assaulting.
Now I ring their company and tell them that I am blacklisting them, and will never buy any of their products/services, and to remove me from any targeted advertising. I also say that if their employees knock on my door again, that I will be visiting their corporate hq and I will be disrupting their activities.
They don't come back.
Now I am building a front fence that will be locked off after I get home.
My home is not anyones business place:mad: