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    Omg i can't belive the phone call i just had this company liberty marketing group called to sell me mags. I declined and i said i don't want to give out my information the idoit sells guys would not take no thank you as an answer. He kept harssing me saying well why don't you want don't you know its a good deal. I said i am not intreasted thank you and he kept on pressing trying to make me feel like an idoit for not wanting his dam mags. So i told him i was calling the better business burea to report there harssing and he laughed at me and said it would be a week calim they are ga and i am reporting. dam asshole.

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    Ugh I would have just hung up.... Wait.. I do hang up lol. The second I hear that pause for the call to connect I hang up. I cant stand telemarketers. Though I used to be a telemarketer(sorry guys.. but hey I quit after a week ) anyway they fire you if you dont make enough sales. I had a manager or superviser over my shoulder while I was making calls telling me if I didnt make the sale they would fire me. You have to make a certian quota every week It was even worse, I was selling credit cards.. I felt so bad trying to convice a 90 year old guy that he couldnt live without a master card... sick sick world.

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    they got me once. It was right after my first baby and I was high on painkillers and hormones.... I ended up paying like $500... NOT a GOOD DEAL!
    liberty marketing group should be sued or something.
    Joe used to take the phone away from me and yell at them... he was pissed about the magazines... He says I don't have any common sense... He may be right.

    Anyway...Way to go telling them NO! My suggestion would be to blow a whistle in their ears if they try to bug you again and hang up. My grandmother used to do that to telemarketors...

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    I just looked them up at the bbb website they came up and have had complaints filed aginst them in the past. I got the companies phone number called reported the rep and put my self on there do not call list wow i need a life lol lol.

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    This is why I never answer my phone if I do not recognize the phone number.

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    ^Exactly. I LOVE Caller ID.

    I also have Privacy Director on my phone.. Since telemarketers like to call with "Unavailable" numbers, their calls won't connect unless they identify themselves. The Privacy Director rings me first, and plays the recording of whoever it is saying their name. Then it gives you the option to accept the call or reject it as a sales attempt. It rocks!

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    Cally, is right check out Operators are stainding by. http://www.jetwolf.com/hof/osb/ Man some of the things going on there are great. It is an old site, and deals mainly with call ins, but very good.

    I usually play completly dumb or put an accent on. Dumb ass surfer usually gets them. I'll also get my red neck accent on play it out as Joe-Bob. Some times I do hang up. Mostly I just tell them the key words 'Not Interested', and that I'll report them if they don't hang up. Here "Not Interested" is backed up with some very toothy laws.

    Now if I ever, ever get someone calling for me by Mr. Wife'sName. I really shine them on and eventually pass them over to my wife. So I guess I get a two'fer. I get to annoy the caller, and give her a hard time. When I'm done being dominated for the day, it is a good release.
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    Like Cally, I used to be a telemarketer too, sorry guys! LOL It was during my senior year of high school and it paid better than most jobs I could get at the time. I only lasted two weeks and then I quit because I hated it. Now I only have a cell phone and no home phone, so I don't get calls from telemarketers anymore.

    A good friend of mine will play jokes on telemarketers. When they call and ask for him, he will say things like "He just left to go buy some cocaine." or "He's getting laid right now, can you call back later?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by blondhottie
    A good friend of mine will play jokes on telemarketers. When they call and ask for him, he will say things like "He just left to go buy some cocaine." or "He's getting laid right now, can you call back later?"

    Blondhottie that put a smile on my face and just added a new trick to my bag!


    I can just imagine their reaction to a redneck voice saying that.

    I used to do level 1 tech support, a long time ago. Sometimes 500 (well maybe 250) calls a day. I have hated the phone ever since. I do not have one in the bedroom. All business is conducted on the mobile, or I dial out on my phone.

    At one business I would routinely divert my phone to voice mail. Actually one time I made a diversion chain, it went to about 6 different numbers before going to my voice mail. Sometimes diversion was the only way to plow through a task. It was great fun seing my colleage pickup a phone call for me, going WTF is going on.
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    i used to be a telemarketer for 2 years. oftentimes you have to second and third request people. trust me we dont want to get bitched at but if we dont do it we get written up and fired.

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    My parents have a security screen that requires them to identify themselves. They never do. So it shows up on the CID as Security Screen :000-000-0000

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    Quote Originally Posted by CorsicaFire
    My parents have a security screen that requires them to identify themselves. They never do. So it shows up on the CID as Security Screen :000-000-0000

    Wow. That is really cool! Is that like a service you can request from the phone company??? (I am only on my cell phone right now, the hubby cancelled our home phone....) But if I ever get my home phone back on, I'd like this service.


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    Works wonders.

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    Quote Originally Posted by VenusGoddess
    This is why I never answer my phone if I do not recognize the phone number.
    That is EXACTLY how I deal with it! The worst is those kids who go around selling magazines for a "scholarship". They follow you and DO NOT give up. One time I had a louie vuitton bag and the guy kept pestering me about how I could afford it. Ugh!
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    i just resteried for do not call took all of 5 secs i hope it works.

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    It'll take a while to get you on the list, but once you are on it they S T O P calling you.

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    Yup, Ove been on the list for 2 years and no calls

    And yes Montana, its a service from their phone company. It also makes the phone ring differently along with the CID thing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Madcap
    If you have an established business relationship with the people calling you, or a charitable organization is calling, it doesn't work wonders enough unfortunately.


    http://www.stripperweb.com/forum/showthread.php?t=66596

    Really, I think it would be smart to record these harrassing phone calls, and send a copy to your state's AG.

    Then share your horror with the world by digitizing the recording and upload it to a website.

    While I usually just hang up (or just leave the phone off the receiver until they do), I sometimes play around with these folks.

    Telemarketer: "Is Doc there?"

    "I'm sorry. Doc died a horrible twitching death this morning in a __________ accident."

    I always fill the blank with something stupid. My personal favorite was marshmallow (there was a bag lying on the counter and it was the first thing that popped into my head).

    Then I laugh at the telemarketer's reaction and hang up. I really should start recording them.
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    The machine that calls is known in the industry as a 'predictive dialer'. It uses the cadence of your voice to determine (predict) if it is talking to a machine or a real person. If it thinks you're a real person, it will connect you to a rep. Hence the brief pause.

    Someone's probably going to kill me, but I've worked on those machines as part of my career in telecommunications. In a lot of cases, if you hang up, your number just goes back onto the 'to call' list. You will be called again, after a brief respite.

    We don't have a do not call list up here yet. Hopefully soon!

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    Next time they call, ask if they're interested in a little phone sex.
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    If you get an odd call middle of day, or about dinner time, and no one speeks, the machine is trying to deterimine if your picking up. Best solution, bash the keypad like a mad man. Tends to make the machine think there is nothing there. It would be great to have a fax recording and play it.... hell many other recordings also.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lwtex52
    Next time they call, ask if they're interested in a little phone sex.
    LOL, my friend who I mentioned earlier in this thread has done that before too. The telemarketer was not amused.

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