Telemarketer day

**SARGE** · 1st August 2007, 21:41

Originally Posted by devnull

This is the best revenge on telemarketers ever...

http://joshualowry.vox.com/library/a...ab8c18e1d.html

they did the morning show at my last radio station .. great guys ..

**Skyryder** · 2nd August 2007, 11:39

I usually wait until they finish their spiel and ask how you are etc. If I have time I wait and don't answer. Their training does not cover that and then you can get them flustered. So some times they start all over again. Then they ask how you are again. Usually I say they have asked that once already and why are they repeating themselves. You can have a lot of fun with them if you have the time, but in most cases I'm too busy to be bothered. I once tole some woman that I had just been told by my doctor that I was dying. She hung up on me. That was different.

Mostly they piss me off and I just say no and hang up.

Skyryder

**scrivy** · 2nd August 2007, 20:52

I usually say I'm busy, ring back in 5 mins.
They always ring back, so just don't answer the call!

Also, all the junk mail you get from the big utility/bank/insurance companies - I put all my other junk mail in their freepost envelopes, and send it to them!!
Cuts down on the waste I have to deal with!!

**Big Dave** · 2nd August 2007, 20:58

Originally Posted by scrivy

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Also, all the junk mail you get from the big utility/bank/insurance companies - I put all my other junk mail in their freepost envelopes, and send it to them!!
Cuts down on the waste I have to deal with!!

that's pretty good!

**Mr. Peanut** · 2nd August 2007, 21:25

Now now Dave, aint it the same thing as you do? Give or a take a bit of creativity and a different medium.

**Big Dave** · 2nd August 2007, 21:42

Originally Posted by Fumeux

Now now Dave, aint it the same thing as you do? Give or a take a bit of creativity and a different medium.

Yeah - good question.

My stuff has an intrusion value of 'turn the page' - or 'click here' in places where the recipients would be fully expecting to see advertising.

Nothing ambush or unexpected and is offered with some entertainment value consistent with the medium in which it is presented.

It doesn't require physical action or require you to stop gainful activity to avoid it, beyond 'turn the page'.
And that's my beef. I'm not given the choice. Sure I can ignore the phone, but my wife can't. Great Aunt Tabitha and all. It's a formula for anxiety or drag your arse out of the chair to deal.

Where possible I always try to include a worthwhile shot or a gag, or a pun - to be consumed at leisure, as part of the entertainment - not NOW NOW NOW I'm on your fuckin' telephone and you got no choice about it.
I think there is a big difference.