I've always been friendly to telemarketers, especially after doing tech support. I understand just how bad it can be to talk to people, and those were people that called me. I can't imagine what you have to put up with when you're making unsolicited sales calls. I exchange pleasantries with them and them ask that they remove me from their calling list and hang up. I'm polite to them but don't listen to their pitch.
About 10 minutes ago my land line rang so I knew it pretty much was a telemarketer or Krissa calling to say hi, pretty much everyone else calls my cell phone. Its 8:30 which is a little late for most telemarketer calls, but thats who it was. Some guy with a big drawl tells me he's from some lodge in Branson and I cut him, tell him I'm not interested and ask him to please remove my name from their calling list. The guy fires back in a pissy tone of voice, "why?" Alright that made me mad and I barked back "because I told you to." Sadly he hung up on me there before I could tear into him. That really irritates me though. Maybe if from now on when I answer the phone and realize its a telemarketer I should just begin the same obscenity over and over again, or just set the phone down and walk away. Its bad enough that you intrude on me in in a more invasive fashion than spam, junk mail, or even pop up ads, but then you're rude to me when I kind out of compassion for you because of your job......
I'm going to turn on the radio and listen to Love Line now. Its always a pleasant mix of Drew and Adam mocking people, and getting to laugh at the questions people ask.
Posted by johnm at December 18, 2002 08:57 PMYou should try some of my techniques.
1. Feign entusiasm
a. and then ask them if their product will work on the moon.
b. Ask them if you can use it on your t-9f7 tax form.
c. Really paint it on, I mean act like their product is going to save your life from russian mobsters, you can even tell them that.
AND THEN tell them to take you of their list and slam the phone repeatedly.
-Russ
First off I am a telemarketer. I love people like you guys. I love it when I call people and they say off the wall stuff and I have to push the mute button because I'm laphing so hard. We love it when people prank us. See most of us are limited to how many calls we can make in an hour. Mine is under 64 calls on average. If you keep us on the phone no matter if we make a sale or not we win. The less calls we make we get more money as long as we still make some sales. Just hanging up on us isn't that bad either. We will just sit on someones answering machine for a few minuets to wast time if are calls pre hour is too high. So in short making fun of us is doing us a favor. Keep up the good work.
Posted by: Chad on May 7, 2003 11:01 AMPerhaps the guy with the southern drawl was required to overcome objections, and meet his conversion goals, you were the last caller that HE HAD to make a sale with our his conversion gets fucked up and he gets fired, ever think of that???
Posted by: Jonathan Morfin on May 25, 2003 10:31 PMI used to work as a telemarketer, and let me tell you. Telemarketers hate telemarketers.It's really funny, because some unskilled fucken douche bag calls me repeatly from Nova Scotia, because their fisheries closed down like 5 billion years ago. So, like their economy is pretty fucked up, and thus they have to rely on industries that are more parasitical than crack dealers........they are telecommunicators.
Anyways, these idiots try to get me to sign up for their shitty gold cards. Like intro rate of 5% like how fucking gullible do they think I am? They'll then jack up the intrest to a billion%.
So I just decide to fuck up their conversation rating by keeping them on the phone long. They keep on trying to get their speel through.
It's really funny, I pretend to be a rancher out West, talk in a Texican Confederate Drawl. Tell them I'm an old man who lost his hearing when a German granade exploded beside me in Normandy.
Pretend conversations with the miss, hell tell them I just got off the tractor and can't hear.
It's really funny.
So keep them on the line, they get in shit.
Posted by: Chinese Confederate Redneck. on June 3, 2003 02:17 AMI used to work as a telemarketer, and let me tell you. Telemarketers hate telemarketers.It's really funny, because some unskilled fucken douche bag calls me repeatly from Nova Scotia, because their fisheries closed down like 5 billion years ago. So, like their economy is pretty fucked up, and thus they have to rely on industries that are more parasitical than crack dealers........they are telecommunicators.
Anyways, these idiots try to get me to sign up for their shitty gold cards. Like intro rate of 5% like how fucking gullible do they think I am? They'll then jack up the intrest to a billion%.
So I just decide to fuck up their conversation rating by keeping them on the phone long. They keep on trying to get their speel through.
It's really funny, I pretend to be a rancher out West, talk in a Texican Confederate Drawl. Tell them I'm an old man who lost his hearing when a German granade exploded beside me in Normandy.
Pretend conversations with the miss, hell tell them I just got off the tractor and can't hear.
It's really funny.
So keep them on the line, they get in shit.
Posted by: Chinese Confederate Redneck. on June 3, 2003 02:17 AMI hate telemarketers also, I get 10 calls a week from them. I work for a research firm where we ask people their OPINIONS only. I am constantly getting abuse because of those scumbags. There are a few of us out there who just want your opinion on an issue, we call random numbers and we are NOT SELLING ANYTHING. The next time you pick up the phone at least give us a chance.
Posted by: Paul Lake on July 28, 2003 04:52 AMI am a telemarketer and I don't think you people understand what a valuable service we are providing. Many people appreciate the special offers we have to provide. I don't mind calls, and to prove it, here is my home phone number, (806) 355-0633. Call me anytime, just make sure you have an offer that I might be interested in.
Posted by: Jim Gwinn on July 29, 2003 09:54 AMI dont have a major problem with telemarketers!! I do have a problem with them being rude however. I recently experienced a young man mocking my voice because after he finished his intro, and I stated I wasnt interested I had to asked him to remove me from his list. I conduct surveys for a living and I am quite disturbed by the amount of firms trying to side step the FCC regulations in this regard. When I say that I am not interested in buying anything only to be told that "they are not selling anything, they are just providing a service, or exclusive offer" In summation there actually are a few of us out there who just want your opinions, we dont compile lists, we dont sell your answers, we only use your opinions for the purpose of the survey NOTHING ELSE!!!! Telemarketers have ruined my job by pretending to conduct opinion polls, then asking how many issues of the Wall Street Journal you want. Before you hang up give us a few seconds and ask can I have your full name, can I have your number to verify that you are a legitimate opinion firm, what is your website address, if the person says no to any of these questions, then hang up by all means. If anyone would like clarification on this my email is above
Posted by: Kev Mo on August 3, 2003 05:59 AM