how to prank a telemarketer

[Kiltedfirepiper]

telemarketer prank

ok hopefully noone else has posted THIS one

[Dirk Skene]

O my goodness! That reminds of some stuff I have pulled, but not nearly as elaborate.

[Big Dave]

That is bloody funny, that reminds me, a few years back we used to get the same telemarketers calling our house for a couple weeks straight trying to sell us newspapers. We were getting fed up with all the calls, so the next time they did call my sister told them "we weren't aloud to read the paper, our master lucifer won't let us, but if you want to hang on a minute we could ask him?" . Needless to say we did't get any telemarketers phoning us for about two years or so. I'll have to see if it'll work again.

[MacTavishOfJapan]

Fantastic!!!! I will have to try stuff like that.

[McClef]

Brilliant!

I'm not sure that I could carry it through without laughing though!

Here many of the calls seem to come from India!

[David Dalglish]

Nice one, we would all like to do that to telemarketers

[Mr. Kilt]

True story...

About 7 years ago one of our local newspapers called and wanted me to buy a subscription. I politely said "no thanks, I'm not interested".
The fellow asked "why not"?
I replied that I just wasn't interested.
He was having a hard time taking no for an answer, even to the point of offering me a 3-moth trial subscription for free. He was quite flabbergasted that I still refused. This went on for about 15 minutes. (I had lots of spare time that night :rolleyes: )

He finally broke down and asked what it was about the paper that I didn't like. I said "I don't know, I've never read it before".
He replied "WHAT!?!?! How can you not like it if you've never read it? Try it for free for three months, then cancel it if you don't like it".
I replied "I can't".
"Why not"?
"Because I'm blind".
"Ackk...sputter sputter...gosh sir, I'm I'm I'm terribly sorry. I didn't mean...Please forgive me."
Click.

I'd never heard anyone back-pedal so much in my life!! Sometimes it's fun to be an a$$hole.

[cessna152towser]

Very amusing if somewhat far fetched. In reality the telemarketer would have hung up long ago. In my experience the marketer offers you something. When you say you aren't interested they ask you why and when you begin a lengthy explanation you soon realise they have hung up. I had such a call on two consecutive evenings last week from a credit card company inviting me to transfer balances onto their company's card. I cut up my card and returned it to the company for cancellation and told them in my covering letter that I do not take kindly to rude telemarketers calling me and then hanging up. It would at least be good manners if they could be taught how to poiltely end the conversation once they figure out that they are making no headway.

[Jerry]

Very amusing if somewhat far fetched. In reality the telemarketer would have hung up long ago. In my experience the marketer offers you something. When you say you aren't interested they ask you why and when you begin a lengthy explanation you soon realise they have hung up. I had such a call on two consecutive evenings last week from a credit card company inviting me to transfer balances onto their company's card. I cut up my card and returned it to the company for cancellation and told them in my covering letter that I do not take kindly to rude telemarketers calling me and then hanging up. It would at least be good manners if they could be taught how to poiltely end the conversation once they figure out that they are making no headway.

The telemarketers in Scotland must be a lot less persistant than those here in the USA.

[chasem]

Very amusing if somewhat far fetched. In reality the telemarketer would have hung up long ago. In my experience the marketer offers you something. When you say you aren't interested they ask you why and when you begin a lengthy explanation you soon realise they have hung up. I had such a call on two consecutive evenings last week from a credit card company inviting me to transfer balances onto their company's card. I cut up my card and returned it to the company for cancellation and told them in my covering letter that I do not take kindly to rude telemarketers calling me and then hanging up. It would at least be good manners if they could be taught how to poiltely end the conversation once they figure out that they are making no headway.

As the others have said, those telemarketers in Scotland must be much less persistent. I've never seen that with any calls I've received, I usually just end up hanging up on them.

My aunt has received a call from one selling home windows once. She started crying and told him that her house had burned down a week prior, he apologised profusely