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Originally posted by Platipus (2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end? This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone. This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a "real" sales person to call back and get someone at home. What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer !!! (

hmmm....you guys dont actually think this is true, and just so that we are all aware you can pound the hell out of the # button and all you are doing is sending that button to a premature death.
The real reason why you get people calling your house but no one is on the phone is simply a by product of a computer generated dialer. Simply put you will have one telemarketer on the phone, but the dialer will dial up to 4 calls for each person, the caller will connect to the first person who picks up, and a diologue ensues while the rest of the calls are left in a silent limbo, hence the reason why there is seemingly no one there.

Most good call centres wont fall for any of these tricks, I've been working in telefundrasing for 8 years and as a manager of a call centre this kind of tricks dont work....at all.

Tip: if you dont want to ever receive a call, just tell the person "thank you for the call (because these people are human and are working like everyone else) I am not interested in this call or any other correspondance whatsoever, please take me off your phone and mailing lists" be polite, and respectful as it will go a long way.

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Originally posted by ChemEnhanced So who do I send this thread to

LOL


I like the idea of returning blank envelopes though, lol...hell, I'll send it back WITH my name on it and, in big letters across the application, "NO THANK YOU".

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Originally posted by stevieboy32808 I always tell the them I'm underage therefore I can't make any legal decisions. They immediately ask for my parents. So I say they come from work at midnight and are too tired to attend to phonecalls at that time. That always gets them!

Lol, nobody ever spoken any english in my house, I always ask for Tibetian or Azerbadghanian traslator...seems to work.

The most anoying thing is spam faxes. How do I stop those...

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Every so often you actually get some useful junk from the parents.


Andy Rooney's CBS Newsman Tips for Handling Telemarketers etc

Three Little Tips That Work!!

(1)The three little words are: "Hold On, Please..."

thats way too funny...true that!

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Originally posted by Mandrick_v Lol, nobody ever spoken any english in my house, I always ask for Tibetian or Azerbadghanian traslator...seems to work. The most anoying thing is spam faxes. How do I stop those...

lol, great one. I might just do this!

Best one I've heard was how to annoy The Toronto Star or some other local rag...

Question:
"Would you like to subscribe?"

Response:
"But I'm not opening a fish store..."

...some of you will get that later...

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lol

I bet that stumps most of them

Ahhh... good times with phone solicitors...

By the way, to the charity telemarketer who suggested just being polite and ask to be taken off their list - that tactic, only works with the most ethically run telemarketing centres - I have had far too many occurences where I have requested removal, and wind up getting three and four additional calls in a short period of time. What winds up happening is that you get flagged in the database, just encouraging more calls.

If I'm going to be disturbed by a telemarketer, I want to be the one having the fun.

The last time somebody called me, I told them that I was in the middle of a porn shoot and they were interrupting the 'money shot'.

Another time, I took my lead from the film 'Boiler Room'. I made the Toronto Star rep go through his entire speil, critiqued him on it, made him do it again, then told him I was a Globe and Mail subscriber.

Asking female telemarketers to sleep with you is a great way to get them to stop calling you - It doesn't count as an obscene phone call because they called you. This is equally disturbing with guys. I made an East Indian telemarketer go apoplectic when I hit on him. He spent the next five minutes yelling at me!

The best way to get rid of market research surveyors (exception: Statistics Canada - you have to talk to them) is to tell them that you work for a market research firm. It automatically makes you ineligible for their survey and they're obliged to hang up and take you off the list.

I have used the 'hold one moment' technique and it works brilliantly. The more persistent the telemarketer the better - he'll stay on your line for twenty minutes.

In the middle of the introductory small talk, tell the old 'The Aristocrats' joke (See film of the same name for proper delivery). The nastier the better!