Fun with Telemarketers (long, but funny)

[93rollaracer]

beautiful...my brother has some pretty good ones, but i usually just hang up on them

[Raz_Kaz]

Depending on certain type jobs, telemarketers/telephone reaserchers are not allowed to, under any circumstances, hang up the phone on the customer. I usually take advantage of this by just keeping the phone off the hook while they're on for a good 10 mins or so. Then just fuck around with them until your bored and just hang up outta nowhere.

[youngvr4]

not at my job. if they start goofing around as long as we say good bye, its fine.

and as a telemarketer, beleive me, most of us dont want to talk to you anymore then you want to talk to us.

i like it when people just say "i'm ok" and hang up.
this saves them time and they can go about there business

when they call me i just say "were not interested" and hang up

be carefiull what you say to them though. they have your number and address, lol

[Beastiek2]

Originally Posted by psychobadboy

I did some kind of telemarketing thing through the university as a job where we try to get former students and parents to donate money. The job was a bitch, but I got a few parents to dish out over $1000.

Thats exactly what I did at school! 1000$ I got once it was called the presidential donation haha GAY

[pre98zetec]

I think this joke is older then AF is.

[pennypicher]

for the schools or stuff like that is ok but the regulars that want to sell u something well thats when the fun begins.

[goat_launcher]

LMAO!!! I spit out my Mountian Dew when I saw you said - "I already have a phone."

[Dublinguy]

From Movember last year to April this year I worked for the Irish equivalent of AT&T. But I wasnt working in Tele-sales. I was basically a door to door sales man. Anyway we would get a list of names of customers every 2 weeks that we had to sign back to Eircom. And you could be gauranteed the same names would be coming up every 2 weeks. So I would ring these people and try and do the sale over the phone then agree a time to drop out to them and get them to sign. But the people who kept coming up on the list would get really pissed that I would be hassling them again so my answer to it was

Me - "If you sign up now it means I wont be annoying you anymore"
Customer - "Yeah but that means the company im with will keep hasling me to sign back"
Me - "Well thats the thing they cant get in touch with you for at least 6 months" (not strictly true its only 3 months)
Customer - "so you promise you wont be annoying me anymore"
Me - "I promise"

Customers can be very gullible and just want rid of a sales person so most will sign and more especially when the person is on their doorstep or in their house. Trust me sales people can have as much of a laugh with customers.

Mind you I wouldnt wish a sales job on my worst enemy, you have to be thick skinned for it

[imtheoneandonlyD]

kinda like jahovas (spelled wrong i bet lol) witnesses, they used to come all the time until i answered the door in my towel and proceeded to stand RIGHT next to them as they talked. Kinda sad, they never came back after that.

[supratuner]

My parents have had a furniture delivery business for th epast 10 years, untill they closed it down. We had a 1-800 # for it too. Well some sex talk line got a 1-800# almost idenical to ours, except for one #. Well we got calls at almost any time of the day asking if this was the place and stuff. At first we would tell them no, but slowly we started saying, yes this is sex talk, you big boy, and stuff like that. Me and my brother made it sound like it was a gay chat line quite a few times.
but im glad we dont have that # any more.

[Jimster]

The best way to get rid of them is carry on the conversation in a foreign language. Klingon has a fair amount of comical value.

[SniperX13]

I am usually polite when I first get on the phone, but if they try to be persistent, or ignore the fact that I told them I am not interested, I then start getting pissed and then I have fun with them.

[Damien]

I'm about to work for AT&T soon too...oh well, very good money so I can deal with people like you

[dantheman00114]

telemarketers suck

[NeonAtron]

them- Hello, im from AT&T im wondering if your interested...
me- Um your a telemarketer, right?
them- Yes sir. I am.
me- Ok then you should know somthing about me. I am currently a sufferer of a disease, its called "Spontanioushanguponyou syndrome." I really apolog-"click"