DEALING WITH TELEMARKETERS

 

• Tell the telemarketer that you work for the same company, they often can't sell to employees.
• Answer the phone. As soon as you realize it is a telemarketer, set the receiver down, shout or scream, "Oh my God!" Then hang up.
• Tell the telemarketer that you are busy at the moment and ask them to give you their HOME phone number so you can call them back. When they explain that they cannot give out their HOME number, you say "I guess you don't want anyone bothering you at home right?" The telemarketer will agree and you say, "Now you know how I feel!" Hang up.
• Ask them to repeat everything they say, several times.
• Tell them it is dinner time, but ask if they would please hold. Put them on speaker phone while you continue to eat at your leisure. Smack your food loudly and continue with your dinner conversation.
• Tell the telemarketer you are "grounded" and ask if they could bring you some beer.
• Ask them to fax the information to you, and make up a number.
• Insist that the caller is really your buddy Leon, playing a joke. "C'mon Leon, cut it out! Seriously Leon, how's your mom?"
• If they are selling magazines, ask them if they come in Braille.
• Tell them to talk VERY SLOWLY, because you want to write EVERY WORD DOWN.