how to prank a telemarketer

[corbinj]

thats great! the echo star call center is just down the street from my office they need a little of this. just to get even for all the dinner interuptions...

[Nick]

This is one I heard a little while ago.

"Hello?"
*pause*
"No, I'm sorry, he's dead."
*click*

I don't know if that would keep them away though. My grandma passed away five months ago, and the gov't is still sending her stuff.

[Jerry]

Some telemarketers aren't very smart. My daughter took a call from one. I can't remember what he was selling, but it had something to do with telephones. Anyhow, when he pitched his product, my daughter just told him, "We don't need that because we don't have a phone". The guy said, "Okay", and hung up. I wonder what he thought my daughter was talking to him on.

[Panache]

These last few months our house has been bombarded with phone soliticiations (and worse yet) automatic prerecorded calls for the election that happened on Tuesday. Everytime I would get a political phone call from a real live human being the interaction would go like this:

A.P.P.C.* : "Good Evening I'm calling about ..."

Panache : (cutting them off) What candidate or proposition are you calling about?

A.P.P.C. : ...Errr why I'm calling about...(politician/proposition)...and I...

Panache : (cutting them off) Are you for or against?

A.P.P.C. : ...err...well I'm for them. I...

Panache : OK, thanks I have your call recorded on my chart.

A.P.P.C. : err...what?

Panache :You see I vote based on who annoys me least. I keep a record of all the calls I get. The proponents of candidates and propositions that bug me least get my vote. Congratulations, your (candidate/proposition) is now one call closer to not getting my vote. I highly recommend you take me off your call list. Have a nice evening.

A.P.P.C. : I ...err..um...

(Panache Hangs up)

Politics can be fun!


*A.P.P.S. Annoying Political Phone Caller

[cavscout]

Tom Mabe is hilarious.

He does one with a steam cleaning company that is awesome! It involves getting A LOT of BLOOD out of the carpet and curtains and walls and ...

Great stuff.

[Tattoo Bradley]

That was pretty humorous. And Cessna, Scottish telemarketers must be a LOT less persistent indeed! I could certainly see a telemarketer here sitting through that.

Telemarketers have LONG been my pet-peeve . The weirdest solicitation I ever received was from one trying to sell me a replacement windshielf for my car? :confused: I had fun with the guy though.

My brother-in-law was a telemarketer for a couple of years to get himself through college. He has quite the round of stories of people screwing with him. Some of it is hilarious, some of it's enough to make a guy murderous!

[nixphotography]

That has got to be the funniest thing I've ever heard. I may just have to try that.


Brett

[chasem]

Very amusing if somewhat far fetched. In reality the telemarketer would have hung up long ago. In my experience the marketer offers you something. When you say you aren't interested they ask you why and when you begin a lengthy explanation you soon realise they have hung up. I had such a call on two consecutive evenings last week from a credit card company inviting me to transfer balances onto their company's card. I cut up my card and returned it to the company for cancellation and told them in my covering letter that I do not take kindly to rude telemarketers calling me and then hanging up. It would at least be good manners if they could be taught how to poiltely end the conversation once they figure out that they are making no headway.

As the others have said, those telemarketers in Scotland must be much less persistent. I've never seen that with any calls I've received, I usually just end up hanging up on them.

My aunt has received a call from one selling home windows once. She started crying and told him that her house had burned down a week prior, he apologised profusely

[Kilted_John]

"King County morgue, you stab'em, we slab'em! How may I help you?" ;-P

-J

[Caradoc]

telemarketer prank

ok hopefully noone else has posted THIS one

Less fun, but more lucrative:

http://www.junkbusters.com

I'm currently undefeated in small claims court against telemarketers - to the tune of mid-four-figures now.

At $500 per violation, they tend to add up rather nicely.