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How do you deal with them???


Recently I've just taken to hanging up on them. I don't even bother to tell them I'm not interested. Before I'd tell them to remove me from their mailing list and never to call me again- but apparently they just sell your contact info to another set of marketers and you still get calls.

About 2 years ago I just stopped answering the phone. Period. If I see my husband's work number on the caller ID, I sometimes answer. If it's my parents, and I'm able to handle talking to them, I answer. Same for my sister. Everyone else gets the machine.

Lol I used to be a telemarketer...it was the only place that would hire me.

i look at call id then pick up, if its a telemarketer or a person demanding a spacific person i ask what company or orginization are u representing?? if they dont asnswer or lie, i tell them depending on the agency tehy are represnting that its either a scam, fraud, we dont do fundraisers, surveys, if its a real telemarketer(like from india or elsewere) i tell them to put an astrisk next to the name on the computer and press f11(the * adds name and number to do not call list and f11 disconnects and moves on to next number in dialler) for repeated offenders i get alittle nasty, i tel them to look at the screen and i tell them that the name and number is on do not call registry and i can fine the agency if i want, (they dont call back ever again after that)


if its some home repair person making offers (some are pretty good scam artists too) ones i used to get were thermo-guard windows and doors and windowwizards one time last year or year before tehy were going around selling window opener/closer things, so i got smart and said hey look why would i want that?? you call here like my number is only one on your systems, if i wanted an opener/closer id put one of them standley magic door systems and mount it to windowsill with belts or chains driving window open and closed, if i wanted a closer only, i could just mount one of them storefront utility closers like norton door controls makes! personally i perfer commercial or industrial grade products for window and door hardware.

(that was last time i heard from them, it seems they didnt like to have to try and fight the brand norton door controls)

We've put ourselves on some sort of protected list where they're not allowed to call us. We still get occasional market researchers who didn't get the memo, though.

"No thank you, please remove me from your list", hang up.

so have i i have numbers on do not call list and seems they are stupid or blind to not see that notice. i have also done the no thanks im not interested, tehy still call back!! ! i also have had was because of my voice they think im a child and ask for my parents,

The only reason why I answer is because my son is super-sensitive to noise... so I usually answer the phone while it's still in the first ring. Even as a baby he'd cry whenever the phone rang. I've lowered the volume so much that if you're not in the same room as the phone you can't hear it, & I've also changed the ringer. We disconnected the extensions so we only have one phone in the house now.

No matter what I do I can't get these telemarketers to stop calling. It drives me nuts because it upsets my son when the phone rings.

I hand the phone over to my five-year-old boy.

Why didn't you put yourself on the Do Not Call list? You can register your home and cell phones for 5 years at a time at http://www.donotcall.gov Since I registered I hardly ever get a call and when I do I go on that website and report the ph# so they will get fined.

My brother always says "somebody from your company caled me earlier."
and then that gets rid of them.

Ticker, I don't think there's a canadian equivalent of the national do not call list... I knew of one a while back, and registered but that one was discontinued.

My sister picks up the phone and pretends that our residence is another business like "Marvin's Mortuary, this is Dena speaking!"

i know someone who did that, dick's mortuary, you kill 'em we chill 'em the guy who did or does this, the wood shop teacher from high school and was said during class too when phone rang in class.

another was school pizzaria, may i take your order??

I only answer the phone after the machine clicks in, then I know who it is and I just make up some excuse about being out with the dog or something.

Hi,

I used to work ofr West Telemarketing in San Antonio. You are like cattle in a big warehouse type setting with little half cubicles separating you. The calls are handled by a computer and you just sit there waiting for a person to pick up. The computer usually gives you the call after the person has said "hello" several times so they are already pissed. The operator has no clue if you are on a DO NOT CALL registry, as I said, they are like cattle. We had very little control over the call. The * F11 does not work because there is no control. The only things we really could control is the information on the screens about what to say. The lower levels have to read a script verbatim and the damn upsells that keep popping up after a sale is made is enought o drive anyone insane (especially the person reading these inane script, they know they are bugging you, they do not want to, it is just a part of the job). These were a lot of young kids, sometimes working multiple times during the year, they would get a paycheck, then quit. Itt was difficult because so many people are so mean. I was too, before working there and realizing that these people are just trying to earn a living. I have NEVER been called at home from someone from India. It is definetly not standard practice for cold calls to come from a foreign country. People are not going to give their credit card info to someone who has a heavy accent. This place alone has over 5000 people working there in San Antonio, TX.
For fun these days I like to complete their script before they can read it just to mess with their heads. It was so monotoonous that you could not help but memorize it.
Or if you are particularly feeling meschievious, I would ask if they do carpet cleanings and if they could get out LARGE BLOODSTAINS, tonight if possible!
These telemarketers are people too, a little kindness goes a long way. If you are having a bad day, say so, and ask "POLITELY" to be placed on the "Do Not Call" Lisw".
More than once I have seen a telemarketer log a call as "Call Back" because someone was rude.
The volume of calls is so heavy and most of it is automated by computers that checking up on who did what is almost immposible. The operators can get away with all sorts of abuses, so why invite it by being a dick?
Asking politely will probably work.

Good luck and remember they are people too.

crazedchef

The Do Not Call List doesn't work for market research, only real telemarketers. I was actually working for market research, and I'd get a lot of angry people saying "BUT I'M ON THE DO NOT CALL LIST" blah blah blah. I'd have to respond by telling them that it didn't apply to us. The one I worked for was "Call Research." So if you keep getting calls from them, I recommend Googling them and sending an angry mail to the main office in Salt Lake City