A little while ago, I got a call from a young woman who asked for me by name. She asked how I was doing, then proceeded to tell me about an effort her company was making to get people to go to Daytona. At that point, I asked her if she knew she had called my office number. No response. I then asked her to please remove my work number from her call list, and she HUNG UP without another word! No response, no "I'm sorry for disturbing you; we'll remove the number"--just a hang up! This is incredible!
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RUDE telemarketer!
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Oh Leeny, consider yourself lucky. We've had so many telemarketers who start talking and won't let us get a word in edge wise for the first few minutes! They start by saying "Please don't hang up"....and I've often had to interupt them and say I'm sorry..please...I'm not interested! They will pick up as soon as you say it and still attempt to talk you into whatever offer they're trying to make. I get soooo mad! I no longer feel an obligation to conform to telephone etiquette where some of these people are concerned. Anything I need to buy I can manage to do without their help. =)
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Do you have caller ID on your work phone? If so I would call and ask for the supervisor---they have records of the calls so they can discipline the bad ones and very often the calls are recorded for training and verification purposes. There are federal laws regulating telemarketers and reputable companies want to know of any rude behavior.
Posted 2 years ago by Sheba's Mom in Phoenix, AZ 10/8 #
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Here is how one person dealt with a telemarketer:
http://www.cylive.com/viewRow.do?tableid=18839&rowid=25826(Very funny!)
Posted 2 years ago by Kitten Whisperer #
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For the callers with predictive dialers the telezapper we have works very well.
Networker
Posted 2 years ago by ddean061353 #
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I think the worst telemarketer experience I ever had happened 13 years ago. In 1996, I got a headache that lasted 3 years. No one ever figured out what made it start or what made it stop. The official diagnosis was "chronic daily headache of unknown origin".
Anyway, at the beginning of this bout, the headache was very bad; in fact, my doctor at the time and I thought that I had one of my frequent sinus infections. I was at home, feeling miserable, when I got a call from someone wanting to issue me a credit card. When he asked, "How are you?" as they usually do, I told him I was feeling very sick. His response was that he had an offer for me that would make me feel better. This was the first time I'd ever encountered this give-the-spiel-no-matter-what behavior, and I was shocked into silence for several seconds. I then told the marketer very firmly that I was sick and that this wasn't a good time to talk, and I hung up.
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I can vouch for the telezapper! We've had one for years and it really works with the auto dial marketers. We get almost none now.
Posted 2 years ago by DancingCatHill #
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have you tried using the national do not call list ,after using it I recieved a lot less calls
Posted 2 years ago by Renee in Arkansas #
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Glad you enjoyed it, SM! ;D
Posted 2 years ago by Kitten Whisperer #
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Good way to deal with them, I would not like having to do that job (telemarketing).
Posted 2 years ago by AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew #
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KW, that was the funniest way to deal with telemarkers that I have ever heard.
Posted 2 years ago by LadyKat of IA #
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Azdebra, I've sometimes wondered what kind of pressure telemarketers' supervisors put on them to be so pushy. I wonder if the number of people buying their particular product or service determines their pay. There's no excuse, however, for being rude to people who have asked that their numbers be removed from the call list.
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