Tips to get rid of telemarketers from former phone marketer
Good grief...
It's simple:
1. Ask for the callers name.
2. Ask the caller if the call is being recorded.
3. Ask to be removed from the list as you are on the DNC list.
4. Hang the Eff Up.
All the rest of this is utter BUNK designed by a so-called journalist who needs to meet his AOL required quota of FILLER.
Most telemarketers are already down on their luck, doing a job they hate because they are desperate. Some are also handicapped. My father was always rude and nasty to them, but it doesn't hurt to be kind when you say no. I once had a job requiring me to call people who didn't want to be bothered, and it can eally make a difference when people treat you with a modicum of respect.
You don't have the right to invade someone else's space and someone else's time and someone else's privacy no matter how hard up you are. We all go through difficulties and we don't impose them on other people. I have zero obligation to be polite to someone who invades my phone.
I called my senator, Boxer, and told the person answering the phone I have been registered on the "do not call list" for some time and I was still getting calls. I said the legislation Boxer created and passed to create the "National do not call registry" is full of loop holes and it is not working and she needs to fix it. Guess what? She blocks my calls now.
My tax dollars hard at work!
I just don't even answer the phone if I don't recognize the number. if it is important they will leave a message, if not? oh well. I could care less about saving a telemarketer time.
I don't have caller ID, partly because I don't know the numbers of most people who might call me, and I'd have to have a list hung up beside the phone with all of them on it.....in fairly large numbers so I could read them quickly! I'd even have to look up my kids' numbers most of the time because they call me rather than the other way round!
My strategy is 100% fool proof and yet to fail. I simply wait to ask about the "rates" and then let them talk and when they say "any questions" I say, "how many COX does someone have to suck before they become a telemarketer?" It is 11 for 11 so far! What a great country where someone can bat 1000 huh?
LOL...the Do Not Call List. Yeah, right...and even if telemarketers DID follow the law, American Royalty (also known as "the Congress") wrote the rules to EXEMPT political calls, political pollsters, and non-profits. I tell them they're violating federal law and to not call me back, and if they do, I ask for their business name and address so I can file a civil suit. Strangely enough, the typical response is, "I can't release that information." Yup...sounds like a legitimate business to me.
I STOP THEM IN THEIR TRACKS! I SAY HELLO, THEN HANG UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DIAL TONE!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't get a dial tone - I can't use my phone until they're finished with their entire spiel, and I don't know how this is lawful, to hijack somebody's phone line where they can't use it. BUT - I found that if I push the "FLASH" button, it kicks me over to the other line, and cuts the caller off, freeing up my phone line. If you've had this problem, try this - it works!
Just about all phone services have a call blocking feature now, so just use that. I do and it saves me a ton of aggravation.
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