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Billie DeBekker
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I have had with Telemarketers and I have finally snapped, So I have started a new way to deal with them.

My Phone service is through Bresnan Cable and we have a bunch of different options available my 2 favorite are Selective Call Blocking and my most favorite Selective Call forwarding.

What I do now with these unwanted calls. First time let it ring and get their number off the caller ID. Now I will use the selective call forwarding and forward the number to another telemarketers number.. So all these lease companies trying to get me to lease will be forwarded to another Lease companies Phone number and so on.

Yes I know.. Totally Immature.. But I don't Care. [Smile]

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Billie DeBekker
3rd Dimension Signs
Canon City Colorado 81212
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Glenn Taylor
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That's not immature. That's just pure poetic brilliance!

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BlueDog Graphics
Wilson, NC

www.BlueDogUSA.com

Warning: A well designed sign may cause fatigue due to increased business.

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Curtis hammond
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Is the present and current owner there?

When will he be there? Never?

[ April 05, 2010, 12:34 PM: Message edited by: Curtis hammond ]

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Leaper of Tall buildings.. If you find my posts divisive or otherwise snarky please ignore them. If you do not know how then PM me about it and I will demonstrate.

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WHen I get telemarketers calling me at home, I simply tell them that I'm bust at the moment, but I'd be glad to call them back later, then I ask for their number at home.... When they reply that they don't do business at their residence, I reply, "Well, you have no problem calling ME at home...."
It's usually pretty effective.

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Ed
The Signwerks
1951 SR 254 Orangeville, Pa.

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Russ McMullin
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Just as soon as I detect someone trying to give me a sales pitch, I simply hang up. That way I don't waste any time explaining anything to them. I just cut them off with a click. It keeps me from too upset about it.

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Russ McMullin
Tooele, UT
www.mcmullincreative.com

My mind wanders. And that's not a good thing, 'cause it's too small to be out there alone.

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Bob Sauls
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I used to be nice and cheerful as I explained my lack of interest in their proposal but they have worn me out. hanging up is just plain faster. I did know an old lady that when called by Arthur Murray Dance Studio would keep the telemarketer on the phone as long as possible asking them leading questions. She'd finally let them taste a successful closing of the sale and then would ask them what programs they offered to those in wheelchairs.She really did suffer from polio.

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Bob Sauls
Sauls Signs & Designs
Tallahassee, Fl

"Today I'll meet nice people and draw for them!"

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I take the phone off the hook, lay it down, let 'em run out their time. Telemarketing works because uninterested parties hang up immediately, providing time to call another number. Tying up their phones ruins their percentages. I guess I'm not all that busy anyway.

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Eric Elmgren
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A & E Graphic Signs
Park Ridge, IL
"The future isn't what it used to be" -Yogi Berra

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Michael Clanton
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I told one lady who was wanting me to change my phone service "I'm sorry ma'am, but I don't even own a phone..." she quickly apologized and hung up-- probably still scratching her head over that one!

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Michael Clanton
Clanton Graphics/ Blackberry 19 Studio
1933 Blackberry
Conway AR 72034
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Dave Grundy
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We get the same stuff here in Mexico...

As ashamed as I am to say it... "FU" works here too.

I only use the "FU" comment after the "no habla Espaniol" explanaition doesn't work!!! LOL

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Dave Grundy
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Stevo Chartrand
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Whenever someone specifically asks for Mr. or Mrs. so and so, and it's obvious it's a telemarketer, I just tell them they're (me) dead.
Off the list I go!

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Stevo Design
Illustration Logos Sign Design Clip Art
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I have an extension in the bathroom because the phone always rings just when you get seated comfortably!

Anyhow ... when a telemarketer calls ... since I have nothing better to do at the moment ... I lead him on until he wants to close the sale. that is when I say "Listen!" and flush, then hang up.

Other times when I get the "May I speak to the owner/buyer?" I say just a moment and wait a lil bit, then go into my Meester Wines and Meester Boones routine. “Please to kindly give to me beeg beeg discounts. I make to you beeg feast with you, yogurt, falfal and goat meats.You will much enjoy seating between our daughters. They would very much be please to marry weeth you. Daughters are kindly persons much plump weeth small moustaches!” At that point they usually hang up on me.

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Si Allen #562
La Mirada, CA. USA

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Never mess with your profile while in a drunken stupor!!!

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Dana Stanley
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Ya I like to have fun with them. When my first wife left I would tell them how I got no money my wife left, took the kids, and all the money and go on about how I missed her, boo hoo. It was great therapy!
Then I would get calls for my mom after she died and I would ask if this was some kind of sick joke! Some times I would tell them I died and make up a wacky scenario.

[ April 05, 2010, 08:34 PM: Message edited by: Dana Stanley ]

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Dana Stanley
Mass.
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http://stanleyphotographer.com

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Kissymatina
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I love it Bill! I usually have fun with them....like asking what type of signs they need to order to promote whatever it is they're selling. The constant online yellowpage people wanting to verify my info I have fun with also. I either repeatedly ask them "what? sorry, can't understand you. We speak English here, perhaps you should call back when you can also" or when they start asking contact info, I tell them my consultation fee is a minimum of $25 and would they like to put that on visa or mastercard? Usually they reply that there is no fee for me to be listed on their service & I explain that if they are calling me in the middle of my work day & wanting info, that is a phone consultation & I get paid for my knowledge.

At home, we were getting daily phone calls to buy a warranty on 1 of the trucks. I told them repeatedly we were on the do-not-call list. Finally I started messing with the woman to the point that she told me to F*** off and hung up on me.

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Chris Welker
Wildfire Signs
Indiana, Pa

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[Rolling On The Floor]

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Todd Gill
Outside The Lines
Potterville, MI

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LOL!! You guys sure utilize alot of energy on this!

All you have to do is interrupt and simply say, "Please take me off your calling list." Legally they have to do it if you ask. Those other methods? They'll be calling you back in no time.

Oh. Say it once, THEN hang up. [Smile]

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Donna Williams
Funky Junk Interiors
Yarrow, BC Canada
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Glenn Taylor
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But Donna, that wouldn't be any fun.

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BlueDog Graphics
Wilson, NC

www.BlueDogUSA.com

Warning: A well designed sign may cause fatigue due to increased business.

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Search Tom Mabe on youtube.

Hilarious stuff.

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Dan Beach
Cylinder 9 Designs
1650 Glassboro Rd
Sewell, NJ 08080

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Donna, a few loopholes the telemarketers have found & use:

* Business lines are exempt from the do-not-call laws.
* Do-not-call only applies if they are trying to sell you something.
* They can call you repeatedly if you have or had an existing relationship with them.

So their way around it: call & offer to send you info, not sell you anything. They can keep calling til the cows come home or til you give in to get them to stop calling, then they can call because you agreed to accept their info & thus have a relationship with them.

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Chris Welker
Wildfire Signs
Indiana, Pa

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Change your attitude, maybe that's why no telemarketers call my number. I am on the no call list along with the he will break your legs list [Smile]

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HotLines Joey Madden - pinstriping since 1952
'Perfection, its what I look for and what I live for'




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Billie DeBekker
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I did Have a Roommate once tell a Bill Collector I would be back in 3-5 Years after I served my time for Involuntary Manslaughter of a Jehovah Witness.

They Never Called back.

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Billie DeBekker
3rd Dimension Signs
Canon City Colorado 81212
719-276-9338
bill@3dsignco.com
www.3dsignco.com

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Brilliant! You have tied my all time favorite here:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/740134/telemarketer_prank_call_murder_scene_hilarius/

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John Byrd
Ball Ground, Georgia
770-735-6874
http://johnbyrddesign.com
so happy I gotta sit on both my hands to keep from wavin' at everybody!

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Whatever you do, if you fake like you're someone else and tell them you're not available, don't give a name when they ask who they're talking to.

That little stunt totally backfired on me - twice.

First time, it really sounded like it was going to be a telemarketer by the delay on the phone line, turns out it was a real customer - who would then ask for my other personality - Tim - when he would call. Dammit!!

Then I started getting telemarketer calls for "Tim" as well - argh! Double dammit!!

Now I'm right on the verge of telling the Leukemia Society to F.O. - but they hang up before you even have a chance to reach the phone! If they would just let me answer, they wouldn't have to call me... eeeeevery night!

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stickerpimp.com
Lake Havasu, AZ
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