Telemarketer slammed the phone on me
 

Yes, this is true. I ticked off the telemarketer.
The telemarketer told me I was approved for a $2500 Visa credit card. All I need to do was pay a one-time fee of $299. I told him to mail me the information. He said, his supervisor will approved the transaction. He said, is it a trust issue. I said, you know I don't get a copy of those recordings you claim are for training purposes, then I heard a click.

Just last week we had a telemarketer call us from MCI. He was trying to get us to switch our long distance carrier. I was very polite, and ran a whole sentence together so he would know that I was not interested. I told him "We're satisfied with our current long distance carrier, so we're not interested and thank you for calling."

Now I know he had a job to do, but like I said, I wasn't interested. He then asked me who we had for our long distance service - I told him - and he keeps on talking. So I repeated myself.

This young buck wouldn't take no for an answer, so I handed the phone to my husband. He listened to this guy for about 2 seconds (literally!) then hung the phone up.

Believe it or not, I think they called back the next several days during the day when we weren't home.

Re: Telemarketer slammed the phone on me
 

This sounds more like a scam. Good for you for not falling for it.

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The number did not show up on my caller ID. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't FCC required telemarketers to show their name and numbers on the caller ID.

I don't answer any UNAVAILABLE calls. On the chance that I do and I hear "Mrs." or they mispronounce my last name, I state, "you have the wrong number" and hang up. When I did used to get telemarketing calls, I would state before they could finish their spiel, "no thank you" and hang up.


I looooathe telemarketers and telemarketing. If I want it, I will find you.

Telemarketers are getting so bold.

Not only that, I'm tired of them calling me at 8:55pm on weekdays (no lie) and 8:00 on Saturday morning. I will quickly tell them that I would not call them at almost 9pm at night and hang up.

SC

Sorry for crashing, but...

When someone calls me about switching telephone companies, I tell them that I don't believe in telephones, that they're the tool of Satan. They either get the joke or hang up on me!

I have had that happen to me as well. I was like EXCUSE YOU, my TV SHOWS are on :p or I am still in the daggone bed.

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But that is my point. It was probably not a legit telemarketing firm--it was a scammer who does not have a legit business and thus is not regulated. That one-time fee for the credit card is the tip off. That is what they were after.

When credit card companies require a payment up front that is what becomes your guarantee against the credit limit and it is done for folx trying to repair their credit by establishing a new credit rating. So for example, you send Visa $1,000, you get a credit card with a limit of $1,000. Once you establish a good record of charges and on-time payments they convert the card to the reular kind.

OMG that is so annoying. 8 in the morning is so NOT the time to call me. I'm really thinking of putting that Privacy Block thing on my phone.

Hmmm
 

I tell them once and only once very politely I'm not interested and take my name & number off of your calling list. If they say anything other then ok, I go the heck off......................

LOL

Re: Hmmm
 

My approach is similar to your approach Special, with one twist, while I'm telling them that I'm not interested and to take me off the list, I'm already hanging up the phone. I'm not even sticking around to hear a reply b/c guess what, when I told the person that I wasn't interested and to take my name off the list, it wasn't a question - therefore, not even waiting for a reply. LOL

SC

Can you believe this?
 

Last week I got a call at 7:20 a.m.!!!:eek:

Re: Can you believe this?
 

Now, that's too damn early in the morning. I wonder what time zone they were in. Well it really doesn't matter. It is still too damn early to call anyone about some crap they won't buy for themselves.

:mad:

I'm not sure if this is true but...
 

One of my friends told me that with so many people putting their names on the "do not call" lists, you can get PAID to put your name on an "ok to call" type of list. You don't need to buy anything, you just have to let them call, answer (or ignore the call?) and tell them you are not interested. I'm not sure how much it pays or how often you would be called, but it was touted as an easy income for college students & the like.

Have any of you heard of this?

Re: I'm not sure if this is true but...
 

That whole idea goes under my "Hell to the naw" list. I know it puts food on the table for some people, but if I really wanted to buy something, I'll go out and buy it, or I'll research it on the net. Telemarketing sucks! :mad:

BTW, my brother and I have a hobby of making telemarketers hang up on us. You can ask a bunch of stupid questions about the product, their job, how old they were when they had their first menage a trois, etc. So far, we have a 100% success rate. YEAH! :D

If they annoy you, don't say a word, just scream at the top of your lungs.

LOL that is too funny!...I got a random one at work not too long ago, only this telemarketer was from a different country! I kid you not...He started speaking Japanese!!:eek: I tell him "no, no japanese" and he starts in on spanish!...by then i was too threw and told him..."No hablo espanol, yo hablo ingles...adios"

Im telling you they gettin real sneaky these days...lol

Please forgive me for crashing your forum, but this is a BIG pet peeve of mine. My last name is easy to pronounce, but I get calls from telemarketers who can't say it right. I tell them wrong number. If they ask for Mrs., I tell them wrong number. If they ask for Mr. (there isn't one) I pause for a long time and then say "He doesn't live here anymore" and they usually ring off pretty quickly.

In order to stop receiving calls from telemarketers say, "Put me on your do not call list." They are not allowed to call you again after that.

One day I had the same company call me four times in four hours. I had to beg them to stop calling. There was some sort of problem where the computer kept redialing the same numbers.