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If I wanted to recieve telesales and telemarketing calls, how do I get my name on the list?

Since I always just answer the telephone with a very generic "hello", I can pause and wait to hear if it's a sales service.

If it is I just continue to go on and say something like:

"And welcome to P&J plumbing services. I'm sorry we couldn't answer you call..."

Works every time.

If a telesales person calls me I just generally scream "LEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYY" down the phone and tell them that no, I can't find my mother.

As a part time student pocket money earner I sometimes cold call people to do telephone surveys, normally people are ok once they realise that its not a sales call ( I hate it), so given half an opportunity I diverge off the topic onto anything else...

Although today doing a business survey somehow the big boss of some aerospace company agreed to talk to me... It was a humbling experience - he was very nice, but I couldn't help feeling that I was wasting his time and keeping him from further developing his Airbus aircraft engine fittings. Most intelligent person I talked to all day.

Ditto.
I also tried saying "no thank you, I've already filled my quota of middle-eastern slave children for the year, and I won't be requiring your services again for some time" and he just kept rattling through his script.

I tried doing that once, he just repeated whatever he had said first of all word-for-word at me. And kept saying it any time I asked a question.

Memorandum! wrote:
> I tried to strike up a conversation with one of the Indian guys.
>
> "Never mind that, let's talk about YOU. How's your day been
> going so far?"

Well?

I tried to strike up a conversation with one of the Indian guys.

"Never mind that, let's talk about YOU. How's your day been going so far?"

If they're calling from india I just say the person they're trying to reach is on holiday.

That usually provides a decent sized gap before the next call.

We dislike them, sooner or later I'm going to go on the list where the caller get's charged for making the call because the person number is on a list of numbers that have requested to be taken off all call centre lists.

The service is listed in the phone book.

"If she had stopped for a breath I would have given her the telephone prefrence service number and taken her off our list, but seeing as she was being like that I just put her as a hang up and she would have got called back half hour later."


"I would have given her the telephone prefrence service number and taken her off our list"

This suggests that if a person isn't interested in your service you don't call them back, but hey! You lied and classified her as a 'hang up' to get her called again, just so you could annoy her more.

Way to go on being a grade A jackass.

Yeh I do. She hung up. We need to get through to people.