what do you tells those people wanting you to change phone.

GERMAN ROCKS

ok so what do you tell them when they ring you asking do you want to change phone company.

today one rang and i said i didnt have time and he says to me theres no need to be so rude. i was actually affended. in any case i asked to speak to his superiors to put the frightners on him but while he was transfering me i hung up.

there awful annoying, anyway to stop them from ringing

I'm pretty sure you can just contact your provider and they will stop it.. On home phones anyway.

Diabhal Beag

Say its Yore Ma's phone

El Weirdo

GERMAN ROCKS wrote: »

ok so what do you tell them when they ring you asking do you want to change phone company.

today one rang and i said i didnt have time and he says to me theres no need to be so rude. i was actually affended. in any case i asked to speak to his superiors to put the frightners on him but while he was transfering me i hung up.

there awful annoying, anyway to stop them from ringing

You see that red button on the phone?

EDIT: Actually, Phaser's answer below is more satisfying.

brummytom

"No thanks"

phasers

I tell them to fuck off

biko

"Hi. Would you be interested in switching over to TMI Long Distance service?"
"Oh, gee, I can't talk right now. Why don't you give me your home number and I'll call you later."
"Uh, sorry, we're not allowed to do that."
"Oh, I guess you don't want people calling you at home."
"No."
"Well, now you know how I feel."
- Telemarketer and Jerry, in "The Pitch"

Longboard

Just say "Look I'm not ready for a commitment, we've only just met"

Mahatma coat

Just Tell em to Fvck off, and dont be polite about it Sometimes if I've a bit of Free time and one of them rings I let them start and then about 10 seconds in I say

Right, I used to do Sales, I know its hard, You have 30 Seconds to Wow me or Fvck Off,

then they start to squitrm a bit and get flustered, as I punctuate the silence from my end with regular counddown reminders, normally IO hang up after 20 seconds tho :D


theres a Do Not Call list here in Australia, you can have your number put on it and then its an offence for these guys to ring, not much of a deterrent tho

Tail Wagger

GERMAN ROCKS wrote: »

ok so what do you tell them when they ring you asking do you want to change phone company.

today one rang and i said i didnt have time and he says to me theres no need to be so rude. i was actually affended. in any case i asked to speak to his superiors to put the frightners on him but while he was transfering me i hung up.

there awful annoying, anyway to stop them from ringing

+======================================================

Just ask them to hang on and you'll be back in a minute
then go into the kitchen and make a cuppa.........
then watch a DVD, im sure by that time they'd have hung up.......
Works like a dream....:cool:

GERMAN ROCKS

Magnus wrote: »

"Hi. Would you be interested in switching over to TMI Long Distance service?"
"Oh, gee, I can't talk right now. Why don't you give me your home number and I'll call you later."
"Uh, sorry, we're not allowed to do that."
"Oh, I guess you don't want people calling you at home."
"No."
"Well, now you know how I feel."
- Telemarketer and Jerry, in "The Pitch"

thats a good one. my granny starts asking them waht do they think about the state of our country and who should they put in government. she has very little to do.

Dudess

GERMAN ROCKS wrote: »

today one rang and i said i didnt have time and he says to me theres no need to be so rude. i was actually affended. in any case i asked to speak to his superiors to put the frightners on him but while he was transfering me i hung up.

Did you really just say "I don't have time"?

When they phone me, I just say "sorry, I have to run" or something and hang up. No need to even wait for their response.

Wazdakka

Ever see Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?
Remember that phonecall Dr Gonzo has with Lucy?


Well.. kinda like that...

Only with more adrenochrome.

jd007

You do this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arZFuN1N9yk

m@cc@

I was leaving the country to go abroad so I was cancelling my phone contract. She asks 'why do you want to cancel your contract?', 'oh, because I'm leaving country' 'well you know we have a roaming contract....' before she could finish I said 'No, I'm leaving the country, there's no way I'm having a contract phone in country where I'm not living'. Anything for a sell those people.

Sofiztikated

Never get these calls, mainly because I don't have a phone, but me mammy does. Well, did. Apparently speaking Irish to them generally puts then off, or she tells them to hang on a sec, puts the phone down, shouts to someone, whether they are there or not, to get her mobile, she wants to ring Comreg on the bolix that's harrassing her, and they usually hang up.

She can be quite inventive and indirectly mean, for a respectable little old lady.

Run_to_da_hills

I had one guy from 3 mobile (India) trying to flog me a second USB broadband modem, said NO, he was still so persistent that he rang me back about switching my mobile account over to tree for a special offer. I Had to literally tell him to f*uck off or else I will report him to his company for harassment.

Thomas828

Maybe I'm with just the right network but I've never had that problem on my current phone. On my old phone I did though. Fortunately I could see the number of who was trying to reach me. If it wasn't on my contact list, I didn't answer.

The Pontiac

Not a phone company but Sky TV are the most annoying bunch. Would you be interested in a movie package? No, I download all my movies. Would you be interested in a sports package? No, I prefer to go to the pub to watch the footie. But we have a special offer especially for you.

A few weeks later..the same bloody questions. Do they not keep my personal details and viewing preferences on file? :rolleyes:

Sam Kade

I tell them to ring me back on such a day at a certain time as I am busy. When they ring at that time I tell them that I am still busy ring another day certain time. When they ring again I tell them that I am still busy, that usually does the trick.

actuallylike

bonerm

I would of course have gone with the Seinfeld reference (it is my bible) but it's already been mentioned. So how about this approach....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7xQa8-k93A

Tail Wagger

I often get calls to my business mobile phone for everything
that can be possibly for sale.
Ok the first couple of times I was caught, and tamely put them off,
or told them to call back. I then saved their numbers to my phone under No
or No Tanx and so forth. So when they phone the No + lights up.
I don't have to answer and I generally cut them off, and thats it.!: cool:

IM0

after you say hello and they finish talking [could be waiting a while tbf]
then say something like like "sorry I didnt get the last bit, did you want onion rings?" (or something like that) - then wait for the pause and the "What?"

basically take the piss and confuse them for as long as you can, so that they feel awkward hanging up. [takes alot of skill and thinking on yer feet to pull it off]

So you get to take the piss..and they end up paying for the call

caseyann

GERMAN ROCKS wrote: »

ok so what do you tell them when they ring you asking do you want to change phone company.

today one rang and i said i didnt have time and he says to me theres no need to be so rude. i was actually affended. in any case i asked to speak to his superiors to put the frightners on him but while he was transfering me i hung up.

there awful annoying, anyway to stop them from ringing

Just keep hanging up eventually they stop

pickarooney

I pass them my two year old son. He loves to talk on the phone. A lot of them are not allowed to hang up on a client.

m@cc@

The simple answer is to talk over their spiel and say 'No thankyou'. That's as quick and polite as you can get.

G_R

1) ask them to hold on for one sec, as you have something on the cooker.

2) ring the local Chinese / Indian takeaway on your mobile.

3) put both phones on loudspeaker and place them beside each other.

4) let the hilarity ensue.

Fear Uladh

Haha I love it, people pretending to give people abuse for trying to sell them something over the phone.

However I worked in outbound sales in Ireland for years and NEVER came across a smartarse on the phone. Most of these people are doing a very tough job and not paid enough so go easy.

kumate_champ07

Chillaxe wrote: »

Haha I love it, people pretending to give people abuse for trying to sell them something over the phone.

However I worked in outbound sales in Ireland for years and NEVER came across a smartarse on the phone. Most of these people are doing a very tough job and not paid enough so go easy.

I instantly dont like you, sorry

Fear Uladh

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

I instantly dont like you, sorry

*Starts tightening noose as life has no meaning*

Tigger

Chillaxe wrote: »

Haha I love it, people pretending to give people abuse for trying to sell them something over the phone.

However I worked in outbound sales in Ireland for years and NEVER came across a smartarse on the phone. Most of these people are doing a very tough job and not paid enough so go easy.

whats outbound sales is that s+m gear for doggers?

Fear Uladh

Tigger wrote: »

whats outbound sales is that s+m gear for doggers?

In your case, The Samaritans.

kumate_champ07

Chillaxe wrote: »

*Starts tightening noose as life has no meaning*

it does have meaning, sell sell sell!

old_aussie

I simply tell them that the phone call is being taped so I can easily transcribe the lies and bull**** to the article I will be forwarding to the local newspaper.

Some of them get a bit stroppy, and the I tell them I will be reporting their stropyness by forwarding the tape to their boss and the media.

We now have a DO NOT CALL registry in Australia and you put your home and mobile numbers on the list and telemarketers are not allowed to call you on those numbers. If they do, the company they work for faces prosecution and if they continue the calls their phone lines are cut off/ disabled.

m@cc@

Chillaxe wrote: »

*Starts tightening noose as life has no meaning*

Surely working for years in a battery farm would have been the confirmation.

Slow Show

I say...'I'm busy now'...if they say bye well and grand that's it but if they try to jabber away [what time would it be suitable to call back...I swear I've heard it before] I just hang up and good luck to them. They must be used to it.
Ugh...how I would hate to be a telemarketer.

m@cc@

old_aussie wrote: »

We now have a DO NOT CALL registry in Australia and you put your home and mobile numbers on the list and telemarketers are not allowed to call you on those numbers. If they do, the company they work for faces prosecution and if they continue the calls their phone lines are cut off/ disabled.

Excellent piece of info, I've just signed up.

Novella

"Hello, I am ringing from Perlico. Are you the home owner and/or bill payer for your phone service?"
"Nope."
"Is he/she home?"
"Nope."
"Are you over eighteen and capable of making a decision?"
"I'm over eighteen, but I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm capable of decision making now!"
"Er... Eh... Um..."

IrishManSaipan

Did anyone get them chugger like characters from Vodafone calling around to the gaff recently? They didnt like Fido, Fido didnt like them.:pac:

Millicent

I was on my own on the customer service desk of the supermarket I work in on a Friday at rush hour one day when the phone rang. Lo and behold, it's a telemarketer who is in no way deterred when I tell him he had reached a supermarket and launches into his sales spiel.

As he is so determined, I answer a couple of questions for him in case it actually has some relevance to the business until I notice that customers are waiting. I ask him to hang on, stick him on hold for a couple of minutes and serve the customers who take forever before going back to the call. Turns out the fcuker hung up! Guess he wasn't so determined after all!

m@cc@

Millicent wrote: »

I was on my own on the customer service desk of the supermarket I work in on a Friday at rush hour one day when the phone rang. Lo and behold, it's a telemarketer who is in no way deterred when I tell him her reached a supermarket and launches into his sales spiel.

It was a shemale?! :eek:

opinion guy

I don't really get these but I think i'm ex directory or something.

whenever i've gotten them in the past i ask them how they got my number and ask them to reomve me from their call list - they are oblgied to do so if you ask

Millicent

m@cc@ wrote: »

It was a shemale?! :eek:

Ah, crap, dammit! *sneaks back to fix post*

I have no idea what you're talking about.

McChubbin

actuallylike wrote: »

I am disappointed. I was hoping for something along the lines of that one scene from "when Harry Met Sally"... >_>

stovelid

These never fail when dealing with cold-callers:

Warn the other people in the house first though.

seanaor

Last time one of them telemarketers rang, i just kept denying that we had a phone in the house. ''what do you mean, do we want to switch provider, we dont have a phone!''. They didnt know what to say and hung up after ten seconds of stammering. Me one, telemarketer zero.