Going hand to hand with Telemarketers
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One of the things I used to do was when they called at supper time i would tell the person i was interested but i had something on the stove and could they wait ...i would then put the phone down and start the timer and see how long they would stay on the line while i ate or watched tv .
Now don't even give them a chance to start thier spiel I just start asking them stupid questions to see how long it takes to get them to hang up
Now don't even give them a chance to start thier spiel I just start asking them stupid questions to see how long it takes to get them to hang up
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Engage them in conversation, the longer they're on the line the fewer calls they're turning over. Ask for stats and details on their programs, challenge their explanations and respond with your own in great detail. You don't even have to make sense, just keep them occupied so they're not calling me.
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As they start their speech, as soon as you can tell them you are about to eat dinner and if they could leave their name and home phone number you promice to call them later that evening,... Every time I've done this they sputter alittle and say something to the effect they can do that, against company policy or that to which I reply in a raised voice:
Why because you don't want some a**hole calling you when You're trying to eat dinner?!
Shuts most of them up
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Why because you don't want some a**hole calling you when You're trying to eat dinner?!
Shuts most of them up
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Teflon said:
I don't know guys, everybody has to make a living. I guess if it makes you feel better to waste their time or abuse them go ahead, but nobody on the other end of the line is getting rich.
I just tell them no thank you and goodbye.
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No,... what makes me feel better is to be able to sit down and enjoy my dinner without 2 or 3 phone calls about time shares or to tell me I'm just 2 mins away from winning a new TV.
I have a phone so people I know can reach me and I can reach them, not so I can be solicited by every company out there. As to Saying No thank you, that never seems to work for me because it just launches them into the same tired explanation of how great a deal it is, etc, etc,.... As to wasting their time,.... They are wasting mine.
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When i did it i knew at least that i was offering something that was good (phone plans) and that i didnt call at dinner time. I got paid by the hour to so anyone who wanted to have a D&M for an hour was just fine by me, i loved talked to someone in Perth about footy and their latest boyfriend. Sure better then actually doing any work or getting constantly humiliated. The people who do it in India (and i used to get asked if i was calling from there...with an Australian accent?) get paid per sale and its rumoured that speed is one of the big things they sustain themselves with so they can sell more. Its a shocking job if you only get commission.
I know its annoying, but at least they'r not walking up to you in the street, caked off their heads and asking you for a few dollers so they can get bus. Now thats annoying (Hello Vancouver!)
I know its annoying, but at least they'r not walking up to you in the street, caked off their heads and asking you for a few dollers so they can get bus. Now thats annoying (Hello Vancouver!)
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Jacqueline
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It is a shocking job. I used to sell indoor air quality filtration systems, on commission. (and was pretty good at it, I must say.)
The one thing that works to get them off your tail is to kindly tell them ( or aggressively tell them ) that you have a limited source of income.
If the company is a respectful one, they'll politely say "Yes" and you won't hear from them again.
Never again will I work as a telemarketer.
The one thing that works to get them off your tail is to kindly tell them ( or aggressively tell them ) that you have a limited source of income.
If the company is a respectful one, they'll politely say "Yes" and you won't hear from them again.
Never again will I work as a telemarketer.
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I posted this over in pet peeves, but it seems to fit better here... http://howtoprankatelemarketer.ytmnd.com/ *usual disclaimers apply*
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spud said:
Yeah but its so much more fun to flip out on them...They are getting paid for it so may as well help them earn there money...And from what I have been told they are not allowed to hang up on you...Mind you I am not sure if that is true as I have never stooped to there level and got a job pissin people off...
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(1)The three little words are: "Hold On, Please..."
Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task.
These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.
(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 !!!
(3) Junk Mail Help:
When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these "ads" with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.
When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope.
Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right?
It costs them more than the regular 37 cents postage "IF" and when they receive them back.
It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents before the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.
One of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas.
Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back!
If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 37 cents.
The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for it...Twice!
Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task.
These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.
(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 !!!
(3) Junk Mail Help:
When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these "ads" with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.
When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope.
Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right?
It costs them more than the regular 37 cents postage "IF" and when they receive them back.
It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents before the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.
One of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas.
Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back!
If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 37 cents.
The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for it...Twice!
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They most certainly can hang up on you! If i called someone who didnt speak English it was a quick case of "Hello", "Shelllooo", "...is jimmy home? No? Wrong number then". I hung up all the time. Anyone who said "Hold please", neednt have waited 2 seconds because as soon as i heard that i hitting the hang up button on the computer.
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Honestly, I know its fun to joke about it but I hope you show a little more respect than that I mean I heard my whole BMQ about how we are to represent the CF the best we can because civilians already think low of it. If they know your a member or not it says something about character to me... They get paid to do what they do and for most its their only or best option as a career its not like they have nothing better to do so they just drop a line. My $0.02
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In some cases,
I will ask them how long the questionnaire is.. they say they don't know, so I say what? 5 minutes - to which they say.... yeah
So I'll talk for 5 minutes and, ready or not, hang up at 5 minutes
Or, I'll tell em I do not want to talk about my politics (who I voted for, etc)..... if they step across the line just once, I will either..... ask for the supervisor and give said super royal hell with no oportunity to get word in OR
I will give canvassor 1 warning shot across the bow and simply hang up at the 2nd time they cross the line.
They should be paying me for these lousy surveys.
I will ask them how long the questionnaire is.. they say they don't know, so I say what? 5 minutes - to which they say.... yeah
So I'll talk for 5 minutes and, ready or not, hang up at 5 minutes
Or, I'll tell em I do not want to talk about my politics (who I voted for, etc)..... if they step across the line just once, I will either..... ask for the supervisor and give said super royal hell with no oportunity to get word in OR
I will give canvassor 1 warning shot across the bow and simply hang up at the 2nd time they cross the line.
They should be paying me for these lousy surveys.
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Snowy91 said:
First of all its no joke, second of all they no nothing of what I do for a living, for Civi side and military, next I will give each number one chance to stop calling me and take my name off there list...And when they don't and they call back, or push me to "just give them a minute of my time" so they can spew the crap I already politely told them I don't wanna hear that is when I start to get pissy. Perhaps I miss worded my last post, I don't just blast away at them (Except when the call late at night (11pm +) or early in the am (6:30) and I am trying to sleep), I realize they are just doing a job, so are politicians but we (the public) still beak at/about them, that still doesn't mean they can't take "no thank you" for an answer....And I will leave it at that....
