leg up on tella-marketers

Got a leg up on tella-marketers. Made the message on my answering machine too long for tella-marketers to leave message. Answer machine blinks, but no message left. Feels good, I win.

Hmmmm- coupla things.

I've almost never had a telemarketer leave a message on my machine- I look at caller ID, and don't answer if I don't recognize the number, it goes to voicemail, and they almost never leave a message.

And if your message is so long that they can't leave a message, how can anyone else?

If no one can leave a message, why not just toss the answering machine and go back to the "old way"?

Yep, I think George shot himself in the foot on this one.

Gene

(quoted from post at 23:47:34 09/17/13) Got a leg up on tella-marketers. Made the message on my answering machine too long for tella-marketers to leave message. Answer machine blinks, but no message left. Feels good, I win.

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I just ask them their name and company contact information so I can notify the state atty general that they have violated my no call list listing.
Get a quick sorry. click.

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(quoted from post at 23:47:34 09/17/13) Got a leg up on tella-marketers. Made the message on my answering machine too long for tella-marketers to leave message. Answer machine blinks, but no message left. Feels good, I win.

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I just ask them their name and company contact information so I can notify the state atty general that they have violated my no call list listing.
Get a quick sorry. click.

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I've done the same and actually reported a few online. Never did get my $10,000 check like they trumpeted when they passed the no-call list. No-call was just a waste of everyone's time, IMO. I call-screen like the others and let everything I don't recognize go to VM. Capture a few robo-calls now and then, but no live telemarketers. Worst are the robo-calls around election time. BTW, has anyone on here EVER bought anything from a telemarketer? I was tempted to schedule a visit from a duct-cleaning company who wouldn't quit calling. Figured I'd waste a little of their time by having them show up to the house.

I sometimes play them along......just ask them where you can go to inspect what they are selling....or ask them for references from your area to find how good this product is....but the one that always gets a big" thank-you sir and sorry for wasting your time" is when I ask them will they be needing bank details....then proceed to try and buy the item for cash, then explain to them that no bank will take me on as I have been bankrupt so many times! (all lies!)
They just drop me like a hot potato!
LOL....Sam

WAAAY before the Do-Not-Call law was passed, I worked the night shift and usually woke up at about 4:00 PM. I had just woke up and got a call from a telemarketer at about that time. I decided to waste their time just like they were wasting my time. This lady started off very friendly and we talked about muscle tone. She was asking me if I took vitamins and I told her that I did not. She then asked if I regularly worked out and I told her that I did. She then became an expert on muscle tone and said that working out actually destroys muscle and the body rebuilds it again. (That is actually the truth. That's how muscle-builders get so ripped) I continued to talk with her and was courteous the whole time, fully agreeing with everything she said. After about 15 minutes of this, she then told me about these vitamins that she was going to sell me. They were wonderful vitamins and were ONLY about $250 for a one-month supply. I told her that that was nice and I'm sure they were good vitamins. She then said that she was going to transfer me to the guy who would take my credit card number to complete the sale. I ask her why she wanted to do that, because I had no intention of buying these vitamins. There was a long pause and she then asked me where she went wrong as I had been polite and agreed with her at all times. I told her that since she intentionally called to waste my time, I was just playing with her the whole time to intentionally waste her time and that I never had any intention of buying her vitamins.
I have never heard so many four-letter words come out of a woman's mouth before or since. After her tirade, she actually hung up on me.

I've got a land-line so my internet is cheaper but I never answer it just let it ring. Anybody who is anybody has my cell number.

Our late Aunt Susie loved telemarketers, she"d start in immediately "Oh I"m SO glad you called, I have just been having the worst day....." and she"e launch off into the ozone about the cats, the dust bunnies, the dishes, laundry, the neighbors, and on and on non-stop.... she loved them.

Yes my wife put a loooonnng msg on ours like that. the robo calls and waits x seconds for a real voice and hangs up, no msg left. Everyone else, including me when I call home, just has to wait.

I did that to a baltimore sun subscription beulah, one day, gave her the sun routine, at the end of every sentence, you end with son, son! At the end of the conversation, you ask, do you know why I am calling you son, son? Cause your so bright, son! Anyway I drug her along, for about about 5 minutes, and said I don't buy anything from telemarketers, wanna know why? Cause you're so annoying! then hung up. She called back my machine, and left a message full of honkey mf's, and such like, I was laughing so hard I erased the message, stead of saving it. Wanted to call her supervisor back, and play it back, to get her fired! Oh well...

We had two phone lines in here for a while. One for us and one for my mother, (same last name,). We learned that one phone call was often followed by the other line. One night we got a call from a "church group" selling light bulbs or some such silly product. Second phone rang almost immediately - daughter answered, " Joe"s Bar, this is Beth, May I help you?" You should have heard the profuse apology, as they hurriedly got off the line!

Gotten so tired of telemarketers, I just hang up on them anymore. Many are recordings and there"s nothing you can do to embarass them. Many anymore are "charities" unknown to me, probably a front for a telemarketing company that gets most or all of any "contributions." Sorry, I give only where I know the organization.

The funniest thing I ever heard was 2 comidens that turn the table in telemarketers, terrorizing telemarketers it's called. It's pretty funny.

I like playing deaf. I am partly deaf, but not as bad as I make out. I keep interrupting them yelling at them to speak up because I can't hear them. I haven't had many lately so maybe I am on a real do not call list?! I can only hope.

Caller ID had a strange # but I answered it. A gal said hello, How are you? I said TERRIBLE, I have the diarrea and my boots leak. Phone was quiet for a while , then she said sorry to hear that & click she was gone. She never did say what she wanted.

(quoted from post at 20:54:43 09/17/13) The funniest thing I ever heard was 2 comidens that turn the table in telemarketers, terrorizing telemarketers it's called. It's pretty funny.

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This is one of my favorites:

Murder scene

As I think I've said before on this forum, when Caller ID indicates a telemarketer, I just answer the phone in Japanese and talk in Japanese. It drives them nuts!

Actually, I'm not that fluent in Japanese, if two native Japanese were carrying on a conversation, I wouldn't be able to follow it. But I know enough of the language to harass telemarketers.

Nope. The computers call and after such an amount of time after the machine picks up, it starts playing the message. If your greeting is long enough, their message is over by the time it starts recording.

It"s amazing how stupid people can be when it comes to a machine, too. Especially bill collectors. They start with their schpiel before your greeting is done, so if they actually tell you why they are calling, you still don"t get the info.

Next time try this!

joe
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Leg up, heck, some of them I would like to put a foot up!