Comments on: How Do You Handle Telemarketers?

By: jane

jane — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:53:04 +0000

i have a real player playlist of vintage airchecks and commercials, indespersed with my oldies playlist. i listen t it while online and when the telemarketer calls the phone is right there next to the speaker. i let them have 20 minutes of top 40 radio mixed with ads for edsel, lucky strikes, weather for june 1965 and the latest on what president kennedy is up to. i then hang up. they either think that they’ve entered a time warp or they are just amused. mabye they hang up. i dont know.

By: pezza

pezza — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:21:00 +0000

HAHAHA so funny

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:06:34 +0000

Say, “I need to put you on hold” and then never come back. They quit calling soon.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:12:14 +0000

Yes Mrs.Cromer it is…lol

By: Jan Cromer

Jan Cromer — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:08:32 +0000

Dad and I pay our own/personal phone bill and always have. We don’t even have the state/business line ring at the house. Caller ID only costs a couple of dollars extra a month, and it’s well worth it.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:11:36 +0000

Hey BC…we have caller id so we dont answer the phone. And if we do, I am like Heather I end up letting them give their spill before I say no thanks…and Joseph just says no thanks and hangs up if he picks up the phone. So really I guess it is just who you are when it come to handling them. Good Luck!

By: briancromer

briancromer — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:20:08 +0000

Manyo – thanks for that website. Signed up today. I had never heard of that site before.

Linda – you are more patient than you give yourself credit for just because you talk to 10-12 of those people a day.

Sarah – that’s awesome.

Mom – caller ID is more money. Yes, I would know who is calling but in a way I feel that the telemarketers would win by getting me to pay more money a month just to not talk to them. We can’t all be as lucky as you and Dad and have our phone bills payed by the state.

By: Jan Cromer

Jan Cromer — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:14:12 +0000

CALLER ID!!! I don’t answer the phone if it’s someone I don’t know. We are also on the DON’T CALL government site. That really helps. It doesn’t stop all telemarketer calls, but it does help. Hope that helps.

By: Sarah Dicus

Sarah Dicus — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:16:59 +0000

I let Kennedy talk to them.

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:04:24 +0000

Brian, I would say on the average we get 10-12 telemarketer calls a day at the office. We have 4 lines and each one that calls will call us on all 4 numbers. The most popular are, “your vehicle warranty is about to expire” and “we need to talk to you about your credit card account” sounding very serious, and then you find out they are trying to hook you up with another card.
Happy and polite is the way way I try to handle all office calls, as well as life in general BUT lately I have found that I have little (or maybe no) patience with these people. Polite seems to be a technique that is not working. I am now using the firm “NO THANK YOU” the minute I am sure it is a sales call. It doesn’t seem to be working either. I am still getting calls every day.