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I'm relaxing, watching some TV. *RIIING*



CSq: Hello?

no-reading Telemarketer: Yes, can I speak w/ ... (fucks up my name)

CSq: This is *** (sternly correcting my name)

long-winded Telemarketer: Yes, I'm calling from *** & I'd like to tell you about an opportunity to save 25% on broadband internet service... (tuning her out)

CSq: (chiming in after 5 seconds of babble) Whoa, hold on, stop the pitch. I'm not interested but thank you.

pushy Telemarketer: But Miss, with this program...

CSq: Yes, that's very nice, I'm not interested. Have a good day.

annoying Telemarketer: But miss, blah blah blah...

CSq: I don't wanna be rude to you. Please let me get off the phone.

bitch-ass Telemarketer: I understand that, but blah blah blah...

CSq: Are you gonna make me hang up on you?

trick-ass Telemarketer: Miss, blah blah blah...

CSq: :X Oh my God!! I can't believe you're still talking!!

ho-ass Telemarketer: Miss, blah blah blah...

CSq: CLICK








What the fuckin FUCK???

And now you wanna fuck him?

gigglin' @ chocolate


but does your state have that no call list thingy.

"...I use to use bad language, now I just use caller-id.
If the number looks suspecious, I just pretend that it ain't me...
Telemarketers to the left of me, bill-collectors to the right, biggest fan in the front singing;I gonna leave my husband tonight"


I love this song...

CalhounSq said:

THAT was your first mistake! Never correct them. Take the opportunity to hang up then!

ChocolateInvasion said:

Another 4 LOL rating!

cal try and turn the convo around i love doing that..."so what are you doing today?"..."are you wearing socks?"

Rhondab said:

I dunno but it's the company that supplies my cable so I don't know if I'm exempt from their list since they're not exactly strangers

2the9s said:

But I hate to be rude



disease to please

Christopher said:

That bitch probably would have answered & KEPT TALKING!!

I feel your pain... I hate those assholes. I know that they have a job to do and they need to make a living, but goddamn.

i generally ask them what they're wearing... it COMPLETELY throws them off track... if they come back with a witty reply, i'll then listen to what they have to say..

MrBliss said:

Or you can start breathing heavily and ask them to keep talking... that works wonders!

:LOL:

IceNine said:

That's why I hate to be rude to them. It's their job & it must SUCK to constantly call up people who don't wanna hear your fucking voice, lol. But this bitch was outta control I was sincerely flabbergasted when she kept talking after all that

I usually end up buying what they're selling.

I hate getting the telemarketing voicemails. The trick is to learn how to delete in the middle of the messages - they don't always tell you how to do that, and you have to listen to every message all the way through before you figure it out.

I have no sympathy. I have a marketing degree, and they teach you that direct marketing has (this is no quote, now) a 1% or less response rate (depending on a ton of factors). They know you're not interested.

That was pretty funny. We don't get telemarketers in Europe.

minneapolisgenius said:

Yes we do...

ChocolateInvasion said:

Do you? I live in Holland too and have never had one call me.

Wait, one called my cell phone once from Casema.

minneapolisgenius said:

Casema

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[This message was edited Wed Mar 26 6:46:05 PST 2003 by ChocolateInvasion]

minneapolisgenius said:

They tend to call for 'Groene Stroom' and newspaper subscriptions

ChocolateInvasion said:

I have Casema.

TheMico said:

Yet telemarketing is still profitable, right? If it were not, I don't see why businesses would keep using it.

I guess the 1% who buy things hawked by telemarketers are responsible for the other 99% getting annoyed.

i used 2 work as a telemarketer about four years ago...only worked at the damn telemarketin place 4 about 7 months till they fired my ass (cuz i never did "rebuttals"--i'm the type of person who if u tell me "no" 2 somethin they don't want, i'll respect 'em 4 it). i loved all the money that i wuz gettin, but the politics of it all i did not like.

most of the folks i talked 2 were hilarious as hell in tellin me "no"--f'rinstance:

i got a hold of this guy, started goin thru my sales pitch...all the sudden the dude goes, "hold on a second"...and puts his little baby girl on the phone in order 2 not talk 2 me.

another time i got a hold of some chick...went thru my sales pitch, etc. heffa went, "u know, u caught me at a really bad time--me and my husband were makin love and i wuz just 2 have an orgasm!"

the woman wuz obviously lyin (she sure wasn't outta breath or anything ), but it wuz hard 4 me 2 bite my tongue and not say. "then why'd u pick the frickin phone up, ketchuphead???"


4 those of u who have been plagued with telemarketers, use either of the aforementioned examples. it'll shut 'em up. the shit shut me up...

Funny Seinfeld sketch... (from his show)

Time: apprx. 7-8pm

Rinnng

JS: Hello?

TM: Yes...blah, blah, blah, blah...

JS: No, I'm sorry I'm...(cut off)

TM: Blah, blah, blah, blah...

JS: Oh, could you give me your home phone number, I'll call you back tomorrow...'round 8pm?

TM: Blah, blah, blah, blah...

JS: What? You wouldn't like that? Now you know how I feel!

(slams phone down, crowd cheers...)

CalhounSq said:

Check out the details of your state's do-not-call law, if it has one. Here in Indiana, there is no "prior business relationship" exemption. (OTOH, a few industries, including real estate and insurance, managed to get themselves exempted from the do-not-call list... I guess they have good lobbyists.)

The new federal do-not-call regulations going into effect this year will have a such an exemption, at least until you tell the business to stop bothering you. Fortunately the federal regulations won't preempt state do-not-call laws. See http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/co...ncalrt.htm for more info.

[Matt's standard disclaimer: While I am licensed to practice law in Indiana, this post is for discussion purposes only, is not legal advice, and creates no attorney-client relationship.]

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

rdhull said:

i know, i wuz sittin there like, "u phuckin pannywuss, stickin your kid on the phone instead of tellin me 'no'..."

matt said:

Matt's right! It's their fault! Don't submit to the telemarketer! We will all suffer! It's a vicious cycle!

Actually, while looking for a job a few years ago, instead of an interview, I went on a direct marketing trip with a business door-to-door guy. Now, I thought this was a sales rep job I was shooting for, not direct marketing, so they suckered me too. It was strictly cold-calling, and follow-ups on successful cold calls. He'd walk in, ask the businesses calmly if they wanted to switch their phone service, then leave after they yelled at him. He said that there's a "law of averages" - don't worry when you get shot down, becuase sooner or later, someone will be interested. It's the "law of averages," which for him calculates the average percentage of positive sales calls. So they're trained to face repeated rejection, which is why I have no sympathy.

...NO, I didn't take the job...I do have a heart...