Tips to get rid of telemarketers from former phone marketer

I don't answer calls from 800 numbers or certain "local" calls. There is a pattern that calls coming from certain towns in northen NH (such as Alton, NH) are always telemarketers. Thank God for caller ID!

I was a telemarketer for 14 years, and I hold the record for sales in that particular facility. I could sell ice to an eskimo! You have to know how to develop a good rapport with your customer right at the start of the conversation. Voice and voice inflection helps alot. I have a soft, very pleasant voice, (or so they tell me) and I can turn on the professionalism. I could tell, by the way the customer answered the phone, if they would be easy or tough. I was promoted after a year. WE did not lie, or embellish on the product, there were monitors listening to us all the time.

Personal tips:
DO not call list, does not eliminate all calls!
If its foreign accent person calling i use a air horn $3 at walfart or $1 from dollar tree. I speak softly so they put their ear closer to the phone!

If its a local call, i pretend I'm interested and ask for information their name, business info & location.
I keep this in little book next to the phone, depending on the state if they call back you can sue for harassment. After i have their info, i get nasty and tell them I'm on the do call list. They get really scared if you mention things like reporting them to the BBB & State attorney generals office. Which you can do!

But my usual thing to do is:
*Act interested then place the phone down & walk away.

* Or pretend I'm the answering machine. I like to say if you are a telemarketer please hang up & hang yourself with the phone cord.

* Pretend you have a call menu: "If you would like to talk to someone press 1 now. The dumb ass will actually press it, its quite hilarious.

None of this works

nothing will stop the tele marketers, I have tried everything, NOTHING works. Calling do not call is the biggest Joker in the world, they simply do not help I have tried everything,
the best part is when you try to call them back, the message, is that is not a working number, that is the best joke, wonder how they manage to call me. th best thing would be to get rid of you phone, Help, help anyone, no help available. plain and simply. so plan to let the phone ring, help you will not get from anyone

Whatever happened to, "Please take me off of your list and add me to your do not call list?" LESSON; Unless laws are enforced, they mean nothing. ANOTHER EXAMPLE: Illegal immigration.

they usually start by saying good morning sir how are you today, I quickly spend the next 5 min telling them how I am, talking fast enough not to give them a chance to respond, they usually hang up before that

I have a sure fire way....when they call I ask them to please speak up as I'm with their mother at this time and using her mouth as my own personal sex toy...then they hang up on me.

I have absolutely no obligation to be kind or civil to anyone who intrudes, uninvited, into my private space. If after saying (once) "I'm not interested" the voice continues, I shift into my HAVE FUN mode and lead the conversation ten miles and fifty degrees down the road. If that doesn't work, "F off, moron" usually does.

Most of the callerslaugh at the do not call list or seem like they do not even know what it is as they all have foreign accents even with U S area codes

Here's what works for me:

"Hi, I'm Mary (or whoever) calling on behalf of _________ ..."

I interrupt with, "excuse me Betty, but have you ever heard of the Do Not Call List?

That's usually followed by "oh, I'm sorry. Would you like us to remove your name from our list?"

And then I say, "No. I don't give a damn about YOUR list. I want you to respect the Federal Do Not Call List."

They tend to ignore that i'm on the national do not call list!

Unless it's "Bob" calling from India from US Auto Insurance or Solar Panels. They just call you back 14 times a day and when you ask to speak with a supervisor hang up on you. I guess if your not in the USA you don't have to follow the law.

The thing that really pisses me off is that I pay for an unlisted number and have to deal this bullshit..there should be a law and the telephone companies should have some accountability when you pay them to not have to deal with this crap.

Answer your phone by saying Suicide Hotline Hold Please.

People, for the funniest way to handle telemarketers you'll ever hear, go to this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmKtS-k12b0

Here is what one man says and does when he is pestered by persistent telemarketers:

He tells them that he cannot talk right this minute because he is still clearning up the blood from the last telemarketer who kept calling and pestering him. Then he says "I will get back to you."

The Do Not Call list is a joke and there is no way to report these incessant phone calls.

I inform the caller that I am on the do not call list and then actually take the two minutes to report them using the name of the business I was told and the phone number on my caller ID. I rarely have a telemarketer call now. I DO have problems with non-stop calls from charities thanking me for my support in the past when I have never given them a dime and will never give any money to a charity that calls me at home.

"do not call registry" works only witgh reputable telemarketers, not scammers.