TELEMARKETER THREATENS RAPE

New York Post ^ | 12/03/02 | ED ROBINSON

[the_One_Neo]

LOL, I've seen that somewhere before, so I've started doing sort of the same. I usually tell them I am going to get the person they ask for or I'm going to get my wife. Then I just sit the phone down. I actually had a guy that waited there almost 10 minutes one time. It was amazing. That was rare though, usually about a minute is the longest they last.

One thing great about my wife's name is they never get it right. It's Ish-Shah. They say all kinds of things. So, whenever they don't say it exactly like I say it, I just tell them nobody lives here with that name. It's amazing how apologetic they are.

[7thson]

Years ago, when I was a junior in High School, I got a job at a shoe store. During my initial training to sell shoes, the manager told me never, ever go up to a customer and ask "May I help you?" 9 time out of 10, the customer will say "just looking." The strategy was to greet the customer, say hello, and start talking about the weather, the football games, whatever you think the customer would be interested in - the weather was pretty non-threatening. Man, did that work. Customers would then pick up a show during the conversation and ask if I have it in a size 8 or whatever. I have never seen or heard this method used anywhere else.

[Ole Okie]

using phones with out-of-state telephone numbers ( to defeat caller ID ).

They simply use line block to block the caller ID, resulting in "Unknown" or "Anonymous" coming up on your caller ID.

At our place, no unknown or anonymous calls are answered.

[MJemison]

...tricks for telemarketers...

When telemarketers call my neighbor (she does not speak english well), she takes the phone to the bathroom and holds it near the toilet which she continually flushes. Too funny.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

I had a friend who had his number listed as his cat's name. Whenever they would ask to speak to him they said he may be unresponsive but they could try. Then they placed the phone next to him on the floor and squeezed him to get a meow.
After the cat died of natural causes (not the squeezing,) they would tell the telemarketer that he was dead. They would feign sympthy and then he would tell the story of him crawling under the porch to die and how he started to stink after a couple of days. Sometimes it took quite a while before they figured out that he wasn'ttalking about a person.

[laredo44]

My favorite trick for telemarketer's is to tell them -"Oh ya let me go get my credit card, I've been really wanting that..." then set the phone down

We don't get that sophisticated - just ask them to "Please hold" then go about our business. They rarely call back, and if they do, "Please hold".

[CWRWinger]

Six months or a year in the gray motel and he'll know what it's like to be *threatened* with rape.

Telemarketing companies hire prison inmates to do calling. How do we know this guy isn't calling from the grey motel?

[Only1choice____Freedom]

>>When anybody I don't know calls and asks for either my husband or me, I simply tell them "they" aren't at home.

Where's your imagination? Check this guy out.

http://www.solicitorsnightmare.com/default.htm

He is good. I heard about him last year when they played some clips on the radio. My favorite is when the carpet cleaner guy calls and he asks him in a paranoid voice "Can you clean blood off carpet? Because I've got a lot of blood here!!!"

[savedbygrace]

Customers would then pick up a show during the conversation and ask if I have it in a size 8 or whatever.

Ed Sullivan, is that you?

[VRWC_minion]

When I was a kid we just asked people if their refrigerator was running and if they had Prince Albert in a can.

[Charlie OK]

did you work at The Finish Line? I worked there and that was word-for-word what they told us to do.

[babylonian]

When the drive-thru clerk asks me if I want a Combo meal, I reply, "If I did, I would have told you. Stop the suggestive selling and get me a burger and a Coke!"

[7thson]

It was a place called Barrett Shoes and I worked there 74-75. I thought it was a pretty good store. The only thing that made me uncomfortable was that their kid shoes were the same price as an adults. There was another shoe store about four or five stores down in the mall that had cheaper shoes. I hated it when people came in and ranted about the cost of the shoes, like I had some control over that.

[Charlie OK]

I hear ya. I HATED working retail. That's just funny about what you said about saying "May I help you?" We got in trouble if we said that or "Looking for anything specific?" We were supposed to talk about the ballgame, weather, anything, so that that way they weren't slamming the door on you right away.

[SarahW]

Rofl, first laugh all day.