[RileyD, nwJ]

BTW - If you have a favorite (or favorites) reply to marketeers, please share in this forum. Here are a few of mine:
- Magazines/television services: I'm sorry, but I am blind.
- Loans: Great I can use some money. Just got out of the joint for armed robbery.
- Exercise equipment: Damn. I just lost a foot to diabetes.

Cheers!

RileyD, nwJ

[EarthBound]

My all purpose one is to just say that the owner is in jail for manslaughter.

[svcw]

My daughter asks how their day is going and if they need prayer for anything. That she is interested in them and would like to offer prayer. Nine times out of ten they yell at her and hang up. The other times these people ask for prayer, thank her for her concern and she never hears from them again. She heard a pastor say thats what he does when they call.

[LRS]

Tell the caller you need THEIR phone number, date of birth, and Social Security number for identification purposes...

[Dan Evans]

Worst thing you can do to a telemarketer is waste their time. Tell them wait a minute and then set the phone down until it starts to screech.

[Old_Mil]

Having just laughed to death, I'm having my dog post this reply.

[posterchild]

Tell them they have a pretty voice. Ask them what they are wearing.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

LOLOL....thats great :) thanks

[The Worthless Miracle]

Love Bob and Tom!

[par4]

My favorite is to ask the telemarketer (or poll taker, even better), how long this will take and then time them.

I love getting most of the way through a poll and saying, "Sorry, your five minutes are up" and hanging up.

[sarasota]

Thanks for the comic relief. That is positively hilarious!

[metmom]

We're on the Do Not Call registry and it's woked pretty well. A few odd ones slip through.

[Grammy]

My friend was watching a football game when someone called trying to sell him vitamins. He talked and talked with them. They wanted his credit card number and he gave them about 6 of the numbers, then had another question. They asked the supervisor. Repeat above.......

They hung up on him after about 2 and a half hours.

[Jeffrey_D.]

I ask if they have any chimpanzees for sale......there's usually silence and then either a giggle or 'click'

[Alouette]

I haven't had a telemarketing call since the DO NOT CALL list went into effect, except for some politcal calls during election time (they are apparently exempt from DO NOT CALL)

Last night, though, I got a call from a little girl selling cookies. I ordered a box of cookies and made her day.

[Fairview]

Fine, now I've laughed myself into an asthma attack! I have wrecked my makeup because I laughed so hard I'm crying. This is absolutely the funniest thing I've heard in years.

[rod1]

I tell them (accurately) that I am a consultant and my time/my opinion is money. Then I ask what compensation they are offering me.

A gasp usually follows and then after a pause, a click.

[Rightly Biased]

I just give the phone to my 3 year old they hang up eventualy

[Scarchin]

DANG!!! Do you mean to tell me that I HAVEN'T won a digital satellite system???