Posted on 01/17/2016 7:53:02 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
For most of us, the National Do Not Call Registry is a blessing we could scarcely live without. After all, it keeps us from getting annoying calls at all hours of the day.
However, for this gentleman, you can tell that a telemarketing call isn’t just an annoyance, it's an opportunity!
A new law needs to be passed with serious consequences for offenders.
This is a good site for identifying junk calls...
With the help of this site, over the last couple of days, I have been able to identify calls from the NRA, the Ted Cruz campaign (2 different numbers), someone with good news about my free vacation in the Bahamas, and a couple from Card Services (Rachel).
It’s been fairly quiet lately.
An oldie, but goodie....
How to deal with a Telemarketer by Tom Mabe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7OgWcwgB50
Me too :)
I used to have that gracious attitude until the last several callers tried to bully me and me and my mind just said that's enough. Leave me the hell alone.
A couple of minutes later, another of us would pick up and say "have you been helped?"
The caller would say that 'John' was helping, and we'd say that John had gone to the library across the street....when the guy would tell us that John was getting the number of the copier, we'd tell him "Oh - we use the library's machine".
I just hang-up - its a lot faster.
Place the phone next to my radio and let them listen to RUSH or whomever is on air .
“it is another human being on the other side of the line trying to make an honest living. Just hang up and move on.”
I disagree with construing it as honest living. Pestering people in their private space & time is wanton obnoxious, taking advantage of most people’s politeness.
I do agree with: just hang up.
You don’t need to persuade them to agree with ending the call. Just hang up.
The whistle works great, I used to run a business and we had children calling in with pranks, I would blow the loudest whistle I could find in the little darlings ear, then when mommy called to complain I would give her an earful, not the whistle.
Good one...very convincing.
It took some time for ‘ Rachel from Card Services ‘ to take the hint!~
I would wait for a live one and they sound US based?
Most of that bunch detected my game and hung up.
Have not heard from them in some time.
If Hillary were to round up Rachel from Card Services and her
underwriters, air dropped them on ISIS; I would consider voting for her!
+1. Good one for the “Windows support desk.”
That was always my favorite.
True much of the time. And there is honor in honest labor. But then again there are those calls to fix your computer, or lower your interest rate.
The fix-your-computer folks will freeze your computer if you give them access to it. Then they'll ask for hundreds of dollars to unfreeze it. And the lower-your-interst-rate folks just want to steal your credit card info.
Those types of callers must know what they're doing is wrong. They must know they are facilitating a scam. And that makes them criminals.
My favorite way to deal with these irritations is the one a guy used telling the caller the call has come to a crime scene and to stay on the line for witness testimony since the caller asked for the deceased by name ...
damn straight! whistle? what whistle?? there was a bad connection, but what was yer lil darling doing calling me in the first place???
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Just hanging up doesn't end the harassment. You've got to get on their Do-Not-Call list.
Seriously, turning one of these calls into an obscene phone call really works.
With the sexual harassment laws, making them call you can get their employer sued for more money than they'd ever make through their calls.
I'm pretty sure there is a "pervert" list that they share because I very rarely receive those harassing phone calls anymore.
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