Telemarketers.... You gotta love em!

i was sitting at home during the week when some home morgage company gave me a call telling how they will save me $23487690835.
i was bored so i answered there questions but i lied my ass off.
i told them i owe $30000 on a $100000 loan that ive had for 5 yrs.
i said i earned $150000 a year and on and on with the ctrap.
i told the mrs they will be ringing next week and when they ask for (mr smith)tell them theres no mr smith here and it was probly just one of the kids waisting your time because you wasted theres.
well they did ring back last night and the people on the other end of the phone were going on about how you shouldnt waste peoples time on the phone*(there time)
go figure

Fawlty

I'm copping up to seven calls a day. The whole thing is getting out of hand when it starts to interupt a man's drinking time!

Regards

Kim

A couple of months ago I answered the phone whilst at he dinner table and shouldve bloody known it would be telemarketers. He was from India trying to sell me broadband through my current IP (I still have dial-up) but I told him I wasnt interested as dial-up suits me fine. He tried pushing it so I quite politely repeated my response for him in case he was hard of hearing and then bid him farewell.

About 3mins later the phone again rang and I again picked it up (sucker for punishment), it was another Indian. He told me he was the supervisor and informed me that my reason for not choosing broadband was "not a good enough reason". WTF!!! My politeness was quickly replaced with an abrupt but still not abusive response to the effect that I did not care what he thought - goodnight!

The phone again rang but this time I ignored it and when it went to answering machine they hung up. The hide! Next day we got another! I rang up the IP service center and told them that this shyte was absolutely not on and I would take my business elsewhere if they continued the crap.

Couldnt believe it...

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I told them once....can I have you billing address please....before you go any further.
They hesitated and wondered why I would need their billing address.

I told them that my hourly rate was $150/Hr and if they wanted 20 minutes of my time that would be $50.00

They hung up.

Im over it I dont get many calls but I dont even get as far as knowing what they are selling - just hang up- no stress no nothing just hear that pappudum voice saying hello and hang straight up

Have similar problems myself. I always ask Mr or Mrs India if they are calling from Australia and then say I only deal with Australians.
But, but I do feel sorry for the poor (Australian) individuals who are just doing a job for their disreputable company (single mums, long term previously unemployed, uni students, etc.) who have to cop the flack. So I just hang up if they carry on a bit.
Never bought anything from a telemarketer. They must have a low strike rate so perhaps they will give it away soon, perhaps.

Indians are one thing but I have been recvieved close to 100 calls on the mobile in the last couple of months from Australians telling me I have been left on the old mobile rates and they want to upgrade my plan to the lower rates. I started off nice and walked them through why they cant beat my cap. Now I am much faster but I dont hang up. I am finding it more and more frustrating especially when it is during my working hours. Their sales techniques are very poor but they are all young and I suppose they are at least giving it a go and working for a living in a very crap job. So I am not going to hack them off and they are not as persistant as the indians. I say we give the aussies a fair go on the phone, and give the indians no time so that companies start to see that the aussie employees have a better chance. It may keep more jobs here.

The bastards always ring just after I have put my boys to sleep.
Always around 6:30 to 8:30 at night.
I firmly tell them to take me off their calling list and never ring my number again.

You can always tell if it's a call from India by the pause (stunned silence) after you pick up the phone before they can start speaking....

Register your details with ADMA, Aus direct Marketing Assn and Planet Ark on do not call list. We have done this combined with a silent phone no and would only get probably 1 per month.

Regards

Greg

TRY THIS 1
If they ask for you by name , then say, just a minute I'll get him, then put the phone down and finish your dinner or whatever, they aren't there when you get back to them, downright rude hanging up like that , even if you took 10 mins to get to the phone. :>))))

I'm with you Harry...."Can you just hang on a sec I need to....." and they hang up themselves after a few minutes. Has cured my call problem....I must be noted as unreliable..LOL.