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Uncooperative Telemarketers

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sigtauenus

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All my household and cell phone numbers are on the National Do Not Call list.

If somebody calls and is an unknown number, I generally don't answer.

If I do answer, particularly on my cell phone, I am not rude or hang up, I ask for their name and business and ask them to remove me from their list. I know they're just doing a job too trying to feed a family and the problem is not the person calling, its the entire industry.

However, there is one company that has been calling me with an automated message selling time shares. At the end of the recording, you can press a number to talk to a representative. I press that number, he starts talking, and I say "hey, before we go any further, can I get your name" and before I can say anything else, "click," he hung up, ON ME!.

I'm like, WTF? Then that same company continues to call me. It shows up on my cell phone as an unknown number. The recording makes a sales pitch but never actually identifies the name of the business.

Does anybody know to combat this? I don't get upset easily, but I'm pretty daggum pi$$ed at this company.
 
Play their game a bit further until you befriend the rep. Once they think you are on the hook, they are more willing to give out info. Then, in the middle of things, say you have to get off because you are at the doctors and they are calling you. Ask for call back number and extension. Give it a while and call back....then go ballistic ion them....
 
i had the same problem with a credit card debt reduction co. that used the same tactics. press one to speak to a rep, press two to be removed from the call list. pressing two didn't accomplish anything, pressing one to speak to a rep only got me hung up on if i asked "how did you get this number" or anything along those lines. i went to party city & bought one of those compressed air horns. only took one time. pressed one & when the rep came on the line i gave him a good long blast in the headphones. a quick listen to the phone after & it sounded like he was tearing out his cubicle, furniture crashing around etc. :lol

had to do this about three times & the calls stopped....
 
"SELLERSRODSHOP" said:
i had the same problem with a credit card debt reduction co. that used the same tactics. press one to speak to a rep, press two to be removed from the call list. pressing two didn't accomplish anything, pressing one to speak to a rep only got me hung up on if i asked "how did you get this number" or anything along those lines. i went to party city & bought one of those compressed air horns. only took one time. pressed one & when the rep came on the line i gave him a good long blast in the headphones. a quick listen to the phone after & it sounded like he was tearing out his cubicle, furniture crashing around etc. :lol

had to do this about three times & the calls stopped....
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:lol :lol :lol

My other thought was get one of the pellet pistols with the Co2 cartridge. They make a nice pop sound when they have a brand new cartridge installed. Press the number for the rep, when they pick up just tell them you can't take them calling any more, pull the trigger with the pellet pistol near the phone then drop the phone.
 
"RustyRed" said:
:lol :lol :lol

My other thought was get one of the pellet pistols with the Co2 cartridge. They make a nice pop sound when they have a brand new cartridge installed. Press the number for the rep, when they pick up just tell them you can't take them calling any more, pull the trigger with the pellet pistol near the phone then drop the phone.
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Might have to try that, but I think I'll use the .45. My re-loads are cheap.
 
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