Idea I may start using for Tele-marketer's

[Tony T.]

As we are seeing fuel price's on the rise again, I thought of using the tele-markerter's sales that seem to call all to often, to my advantage,"every little bit helps the way I see it". :-laf I am bad about setting there listening alot of times and repeatedly saying no thank you, I'm not interested in your product at this time. My wife on the other hand has no mercy its either "no thanks click" or "just click". :-laf My next approach to a tele-marketer saleperson will be I'm interested in your product, but these high cost fuel prices have limited me on buying anything except the basics in order to save my money for high fuel cost, otherwise you would have probably made a sale to me. Thank you.



This approach I will also use with door to door sales, seems like when the weather starts warming up a bit we get a slue of door to door salesman.



The ones I can't refuse though is the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts when they come by. Those cookies are good. :-laf



This may or may not help, but cutting back some never hurt anyone either.



Tony



ON EDIT: Moderators I did not put this in "Other" since our "guest" do not have access to it. And I did mention "fuel" in my post. They also can use this approach.

 

[DavidC]

My wife use to tell them that he is not here right now. They would call every day. Now she tells them he died last week. No more calls.



Dave

 

[DieselMinded]

DO THE SIENFIELD APPROCH



RING RING...



hello



YES WERE SELLING... ... .....



wait ,,,wait... ... . im really busy right now ..... just give me your home phone number and i will call you as soon as i get a chance



NO I WONT GIVE OUT MY HOME NUMBER... .



why's that ?????... ..... oh i get it you dont want me to call you at home ..... now you know how i feal!!!!!!!





DM

 

[IC Smoke]

hahah If they are selling you windows or any other home improvements I just tell em I live in a cardboard box and use my finger to make new windows (and what not)

Also if they are selling a trip or prize and its a hard to understand foreign accent I just whip out my best southern hillbilly ferd powered accent and use a few blue collar phrases... that usually messes them up. And they dont like it if you mock them. haha



ah well I will have to use the fuel one sometime. but since I added the home/cell on the Do Not Call list no more calls... Im kinda upset in a way since I cant have anymore fun with them





haha

Ian

 

[wcaldwell]

When they call and say something like, "Mr. Smith? This is Randy from XYZ Corp... . ", I'll interrupt them with "Randy!!!!! How've you been? How's the wife and family? Haven't seen or heard from you in ages!!!" and carry on like that for a while. Another one is to tell them to hold on a minute, put the phone down and go do something else for the next 10 minutes or so. You could also yell out (as if to someone else in the room so your caller can hear you), "Quick call 911! Tell them someone has just been killed while breaking into the house (or some such line)" It'll scare the beejeebers outta the caller. I've also told them that I would answer their questions if they would answer mine also - and then held them on the phone for several more minutes after they've finished their speil.



So many ways you can have fun with them, but then again, they are only trying to make a living like the rest of us.



Wayne

 

[bmoeller]

http://www.tommabe.com/



Turn up the volume.

 

[mjoppie]

roflmao, the one with the pre arranged funeral is awsome! :-laf i will have to try some of those sometime.

 

[Tony T.]

Guys those were good come backs on the saleman,but thread is intended as a subliminal message. You say "high fuel price" the next guy they call says "high fuel price",they tell two people, and then they tell two people, and so on, and so on,and chug--chug---chug---choo-choo---all aboard! Oo. Oo. :-laf



Tony

 

[CGriffith]

"Do you all sell anything that will get blood out of carpet? I got a real mess here!"

 

[GFritsch]

Usually they ask for Mr Frittish. (mispronounced). I tell them to hold on while I go get him and set the phone down next to the radio. When I hear the beep beep beep I know that they have hung up and I do the same. Hey at least their getting my music while they are waiting.

 

[bmoeller]

Welllllllll, if there was a way to know that it was a tele-marketer ahead of time, answer the phone in the bathroom. Could make all sorts of gross noises. :-laf

 

[WyattEarp]

I just had to jump in this one, i for several years left a message on my answering machine it was not so nice, the calls stopped well here about a month ago they started again, usually i just say "yes this is him" set phone down and walk away, well i got this idea one day as my dad forgot to turn the ringer off i work 6pm to 6am in a prison well needless to say i was ill when i got woke up that morning, so i just grabbed my officer's whistle(this thing is loud) set the phone down and mustered all the air i could right into the phone, needless to say the telemarkerter calls have once again stopped. . :-laf

Thats what they get for disturbing my sleep after dealing with inmates for 12 hrs and no sleep LOL...

 

[RHARVEY]

When the phone rings. . only say hello once! The numbers are computer dialed and if it only hears hello once most of the time it wont kick over to the caller. If for some reason I get caught. . I just hang up. . I have no need to listen to their bull. .



you could always tell them that your cow died!!!! And when they ask about that tell them that you dont need their bull and hang up :-laf :-laf :-laf



Rick

 

[rbattelle]

I'm like you, Tony, I can't just hang up on them because for some reason I "feel bad" because they're just trying to earn a living like the rest of us. I usually let them say their thing and I politely refuse to purchase what they're selling.



This reminds me of another case that definetly doesn't belong in this forum... I'm going to post it in "other"...



-Ryan

 

[EEdmondson]

"They're just trying to earn a living. " So are hit men, drug dealers, etc. That's not an excuse. Zero tolerance is my policy.

 

[rbattelle]

So are hit men, drug dealers, etc. That's not an excuse. Zero tolerance is my policy.

:-laf

Let me rephrase: they're just trying to earn a legal living.



-Ryan

 

[EEdmondson]

:-laf

Let me rephrase: they're just trying to earn a legal living.



-Ryan

Ryan, so are tobacco executives.