Date: 5/1/2001 7:33:00 AM
From Authorid: 25390
LOL well usually, I just hang the phone up on them because it's just annoying. But I think you should send him a bill and CALL HIM to make HIS life inconvenient!! bwa ha ha  |
Date: 5/1/2001 7:34:00 AM
From Authorid: 24856
No, I rarely give telephone solicitors a moment of time. When they ask for me or others in the home...I give them one of two answers. The party you are asking for does not live here anymore or you have a wrong number. Surprizingly, it cuts the call short. Otter2  |
Date: 5/1/2001 7:51:00 AM
From Authorid: 6134
I just hang up. I would send him a bill!   |
Date: 5/1/2001 7:55:00 AM
From Authorid: 34341
Well, usually I don't even answer the phone (I have Caller ID, and anyone who comes up as NO NAME or BLOCKED CALL usually isn't worth my time, I reason), but on some occasions I have grabbed the phone before checking. Yesterday, I had some guy call me up from a Carpet Cleaning place. He started going into his spiel, and I said to him, "I'll save you the trouble. We have hardwood floors." Okay, so we don't, but it shut him up quickly...<glock>  |
Date: 5/1/2001 8:00:00 AM
From Authorid: 21889
I hang up on them first before they could treat me dumb!  |
Date: 5/1/2001 8:06:00 AM
From Authorid: 20873
I just say no thanks you very very quickly and hang up who ever cals for whatever reason associated w/ something like that.... but recently i was going to get braces for my daughter and this dentist must have called me almost evert week for 2 months until finaly I said look I will call you when I am ready.... sometimes you just gotta be alittle rude to get them to stop....since then they've never called back I am fixing to call them! lol, DINA  |
Date: 5/1/2001 8:27:00 AM
From Authorid: 3321
I've had them treat me very rudely before. In turn, I say "You know what? I have a class in an hour and a final tomorrow. I'm tired because I have been studying all night and the last thing I need is to hear your voice treating me like an imbecil. Take me off of your list and DONT call back!!!!!" Kind of psycho, I know....lol  |
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Date: 5/1/2001 8:50:00 AM
I hung up on one one time and she called back and I didn't answer the phone. I let the answering machine get it and she left a message saying that we were so RUDE! I thougth it was really funny. |
Date: 5/1/2001 8:59:00 AM
From Authorid: 23866
I guess I have a youthful voice because I once got one and the woman said "Hi, can I speak to your mommy?" And I was 18 at the time! --Lady Amalthea  |
Date: 5/1/2001 9:01:00 AM
From Authorid: 609
I havnt had that happen but would I ever have a fit if it did...what a sexist jerk he was. I would put in a call complaing to the company. If your in the States they are legaly required to take you of their list when you ask just once...Im sorry you had to deal with this but in a way its funny and I think you got the best of him....what he didn't pay you the $10??!!  |
Date: 5/1/2001 9:25:00 AM
From Authorid: 3538
Send him the bill!!!!LOL!!!  |
Date: 5/1/2001 9:36:00 AM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 21376
LOl thanks all, this happens all the time from diffferent Chiminy places! Userly its a woman who calls this time hearing it a man,I figured he would Know haveing Electric heat and no fire place he would understand! He came over being a smart #%* and left totally humiliated! The Big JERK!!! Diana  |
Date: 5/1/2001 10:19:00 AM
From Authorid: 26227
I think you should send him a bill!! Just do it for the reason of more embarressment to them. This hasnt happened to me but Im always waiting for those people to call. I have answers for all of them!! LOL halfbaked  |
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Date: 5/1/2001 10:25:00 AM
From Authorid: 26227
ohh yeah when phone solicitors call all I say is "ohh yeah i see isee " I do that for a while. If they havent hung up yet I just put the phone down and walk away and come back later to see if they are still on! Most of the time they aint hehehe halfbaked |
Date: 5/1/2001 11:23:00 AM
From Authorid: 26445
OMg,i get that all the time,especially with car repair men,they think if you wear a skirt you could never know anything about a car engine or brakes or a tranny....lol
lynn112  |
Date: 5/1/2001 11:37:00 AM
From Authorid: 9130
I used to work as a telemarketer. If you tell them specifically to "take you off of thier list" THEY MUST DO IT. If you just say to stop calling, they can call you back, but if you say to take you off the list they have to, I don't know why that is, it is what i was told as a telemarketer  |
Date: 5/1/2001 11:43:00 AM
From Authorid: 12637
That's why I torment phone commercials. It is the most invasive and annoying business. If this is your job, I'm sorry, but you've given up all your self respect to make money. I have no respect for these people and harass them in many ways. I let them go on forever, while I set the phone down. then I jsut listen to them as they go, "Hello? Hello? Is there anyone there???" SOmetimes I laugh, and they say, "I can hear you laughing" Another great thing to do is let them talk, and then interrupt them and tell them how depressed you are, and how you have bills to go, go on and on about your life, and if they try to interrupt you, say "YOU CALLED ME< DON't YOU WANT TO TALK??" Or You can Whisper Psychotically to them, freak them out a little, whisper passages from books nearbye, or whisper what's on the television" Or you can scream, say your stove is on fire and hang up. I used to be polite, but anymore I turn them calling me into my own personal amusement. I figure its the least I can do, for them interrupting me, if you didn't give them the number, they are basically invading yoru space! Ryphis  |
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Date: 5/1/2001 12:03:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 21376
I do understand its their job and all but I get so many a week I get so angry!And this guy was just too much! Thanks everyone,,, Diana |
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Date: 5/1/2001 12:28:00 PM
From Authorid: 26717
I have this problem too! I had twelve family members over to eat and afterwards we were sitting on the porch ( in the south, we still do this ) sipping our tea and no less gossiping. The phone ran and this guy named Peter tells me how I can buy some life insurance for a fraction of a cost. I explained politely that we already had insurance and didn't need anymore. Well in the course of 4 hours, he called six times. I was furious, I wanted to enjoy my company and I told him so. Well on the seventh call, I had blown a gasket!!!! I asked him why he could not take NO for an answer..HE said but Mrs....... you can get life ins. on your husband for pennies a day!! I asked him, wouldn't I have to die for him to get this... Well yes mam, you would. I decided that he had spoiled part of my day so I decided , it was my turn.I said PETER, WHY IN THE H--- DO I WANT TO DIE AND LEAVE MY HUSBAND A MILLION DOLLAR POLICY?!!! I told him that my husband was a no good for nothing man that had spent all our married years running around with women( I startes a fake cry ) and I told him that my husband had been gone for a week to the Bahamas with his girlfriend and he left me and the kids with no money or food! I told him that I would never leave a man like this a MILLION DOLLARS! At this point, he was apologizing to me for calling and and was quite sincere. Of course, my husband is an angel but the story worked. No one has called me about life ins, again..Sometimes it pays to act as stupid as they want you to be. CORA |
Date: 5/1/2001 3:29:00 PM
From Authorid: 5940
Well, just a suggestion. I have my phone number unpublished. Only my family, friends, employer, and business (like my credit card company or mechanic , doctor) have my number. Works for me!  |
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Date: 5/1/2001 4:39:00 PM
From Authorid: 9130
One more suggestion.. have fun witht them... ask them all kinds of stupid questions, and act really interested, act like you are serious, but ask crazy stuff. If one calls when i am totally bored i will do that... it's silly but most times they don't call back LOL (I have no life!) |
Date: 5/1/2001 7:43:00 PM
From Authorid: 8941
turn the tables on them...start calling them for the ten dollars they owe you ....cut the off. etc. etc...lol  |
Date: 5/5/2001 11:21:00 AM
From Authorid: 15904
cool, kind of funny. I think you should make him give you ten bucks.  |
Date: 5/15/2001 5:41:00 PM
From Authorid: 12103
LOL..thats really funny..no nothing like that has ever happend to me before...ususally these guys are pretty persistant..huh? lol hehe  |
