Just tell them that they are interrupting you while you are stroking your cock. Even better, tell them to talk dirty until your happy ending and you might consider purchasing from them. Works well for both male and female solicitors.
Telemarketers
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Thanks all for your creative and humorous suggestions on how to deal with commercial telephone harassment. However, I am not lacking in ways to get rid of telemarketers. I generally just cut them off and tell them I'm not interested. What I need to know is how to get them not to call at all. I find it particularly annoying to check my voice mail and get a whole bunch of recorded messages.
Yes, I believe there used to be a do not call list because I think I was on it. But I also think they put you back in the call category after a year or two, which is what happened to me. But I can't remember how I got on the do not call list before.
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/NEWS/RELEASES/2007/r070730.htm
Yes, I believe there used to be a do not call list because I think I was on it. But I also think they put you back in the call category after a year or two, which is what happened to me. But I can't remember how I got on the do not call list before.
Thanks t8rs. I checked the link. It looks like the government has passed legislation for the list, but it is not operational yet. Soon, I hope.t8rs said:
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/NEWS/RELEASES/2007/r070730.htm
My understanding is the solution is simple. Answer the call, tell them you are not interested and to remove your name from there call list. To blast away at the person on the other end is cruel considering they are likely some kid who just wants to earn enough to eat.
Pesky sales calls......
I have eliminated 99.99% of telemarketing calls by:
1) Getting an unlisted number
2) never filling out promotions or draws requesting a phone number
3) Never use affinity cards or points cards like Air Miles
4) Immediately call banks and large companies if they do call and ask to speak to their Privacy Department and then request that no one call again
5) call or go to the Canadian Marketing Association web site and get on their do not call list
6) Be very careful to ask any company what they do with your phone number if they ask for it and don't give it out unless absolutely necessary
7) If you do give out a number, give your cell number and turn it off when you are at home or when you don't want interuptions
If you do all of the above the calls will stop. It takes time, it costs a bit, but you can also start enjoying your telephone again. It's worth it........
I have eliminated 99.99% of telemarketing calls by:
1) Getting an unlisted number
2) never filling out promotions or draws requesting a phone number
3) Never use affinity cards or points cards like Air Miles
4) Immediately call banks and large companies if they do call and ask to speak to their Privacy Department and then request that no one call again
5) call or go to the Canadian Marketing Association web site and get on their do not call list
6) Be very careful to ask any company what they do with your phone number if they ask for it and don't give it out unless absolutely necessary
7) If you do give out a number, give your cell number and turn it off when you are at home or when you don't want interuptions
If you do all of the above the calls will stop. It takes time, it costs a bit, but you can also start enjoying your telephone again. It's worth it........
Not all calls are from big corporations who buy lists from major sources or deal with the CMA / CDMA. Stopping the calls from small local business like window companies, roofers, landscapers and upholstery cleaners is a totally different approach.
Here is a good How-To from a forum called 800notes.com which I found completely by accident while Googling a phone number.
It took a few days to get over the jealousy from not thinking of this obvious tactic myself (since I consider myself an artist in lesson-teaching and vendeta escalations) but it would be worng not to share it with others.
After many ignored requests for a Window company to stop calling, this guy recomends that you play along and book an in-home appointment.
You make it a weekday between 6PM and 7PM to ensure the rep battles the worst of rush hour traffic. The rep migh even call you before the appointment form his/her cell phone - that's how you get their number.
When they arrive, you hijack the meeting by giving them copies of your "don't call" request letters (faxes/e-mails..) along with a new letter, and the copies sent to CRTC, BBB and their phone provider.
(if you get reps cell phone, you can also imply you will blog that number for other angry households to call at all hours ...)
This will be a very frustrating experience for the field rep (usually a comissioned contractor) who will have spent time preparing a presentation not to mention travel time and gasoline on a wasted trip - and he/she will give the aggravation back to the owners.
If reps keep getting bad appointments, you can bet the owners will feel the pressure to improve their list clean-up rather than risk losing a good salses agents.
Here is a good How-To from a forum called 800notes.com which I found completely by accident while Googling a phone number.
It took a few days to get over the jealousy from not thinking of this obvious tactic myself (since I consider myself an artist in lesson-teaching and vendeta escalations) but it would be worng not to share it with others.
After many ignored requests for a Window company to stop calling, this guy recomends that you play along and book an in-home appointment.
You make it a weekday between 6PM and 7PM to ensure the rep battles the worst of rush hour traffic. The rep migh even call you before the appointment form his/her cell phone - that's how you get their number.
When they arrive, you hijack the meeting by giving them copies of your "don't call" request letters (faxes/e-mails..) along with a new letter, and the copies sent to CRTC, BBB and their phone provider.
(if you get reps cell phone, you can also imply you will blog that number for other angry households to call at all hours ...)
This will be a very frustrating experience for the field rep (usually a comissioned contractor) who will have spent time preparing a presentation not to mention travel time and gasoline on a wasted trip - and he/she will give the aggravation back to the owners.
If reps keep getting bad appointments, you can bet the owners will feel the pressure to improve their list clean-up rather than risk losing a good salses agents.
For the more corporate ones:
https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=156763
Related thead:Hard Idle said:
https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=156763
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Or in other words rip off the person who comes to the door.Hard Idle said:
I am sorry, but unless they are calling you 15 times a day it is easy to ignore them. Get caller ID-well worth the $6 or so. And if you are so annoyed at them calling during dinner hour, well then just don't answer the phone. They call private or 800? Well then more reason to let it go to VM. I have a LAN line and whenever I see private or 800 I figure it can wait. If I don't recognize the number I just let it go to VM-chances are it is not important anyway. And BTW you will find it very hard to interrupt me while eating- I ingore the phone.
You think the company is going to listen when their guys don't make money? No, they are going to say "tough luck" and fire the guy.
I would never pull shit like what you are suggesting. first of all it is a waste of my time. Secondly I know what it is like to be that person at the door. As an SP it has happend a few times to me where a guy either does not answer the door or decides he does not like what he sees and I walk away with nothing.
CLICK is my preferred choice, no words, no aggravation, no explaining, just a click.
A solicitor calling is sort of like a car alarm going off in the visitors’ parking lot...I know I can't do anything about it.
The time I would have to spend divulging my private information and number to get me off some list that nobody abides, by far outweighs the millisecond that I spend hanging up the phone or erasing the message.
A solicitor calling is sort of like a car alarm going off in the visitors’ parking lot...I know I can't do anything about it.
The time I would have to spend divulging my private information and number to get me off some list that nobody abides, by far outweighs the millisecond that I spend hanging up the phone or erasing the message.
Interestingly once you could avoid telemarketers by unlisting your number (which use to be free) but now even if you unlist you still get the calls because...Bell sells your number to companies to solicit. You actually have to call Bell and ask to be taken off the telemarketing list...To which they charge you a fee.
1) Get yourself on the CMA's Do not Contact List. It covers mail and telemarketing. Reputable direct marketers belong and will remove you from their lists. Note: Rogers Cable, like justvisiting1, apparently does not belong.
2) Hang up immediately if you answer the phone and get 'dead air'; their auto-dialler's gotten ahead of the humans following up. Take advantage. Aunt Martha will learn to speak quicker.
3) Recorded outgoing pitches are not kosher in Canada. The CRTC's advice is to listen until they give their callback number then report them to Bell who will threaten them with withdrawal of service.
4) If a human marketer—like Boris the Mover—leaves a long pitch instead of a simple callback number on your voicemail, be sure to call the company as invited. Tell them such tactics ensure they'll never have you as a customer, nor your friends and relatives, and why would they choose such a self-defeating sales strategy anyway. Same for businesses who ignore your "no flyers" sign. You can often do this on their VM.
People dumb enough to advertise this way need educating about the unintended consequences. Don't expect them to be grateful, treat their attention just as they did yours: as if it was free to abuse.
5)If that telemarketer's an actual human, be polite (cleaning the toilets at CB's a happier work experience) and tell them "Sorry, not interested, so I won't keep you, but good luck" and hang up w/o listening further.
2) Hang up immediately if you answer the phone and get 'dead air'; their auto-dialler's gotten ahead of the humans following up. Take advantage. Aunt Martha will learn to speak quicker.
3) Recorded outgoing pitches are not kosher in Canada. The CRTC's advice is to listen until they give their callback number then report them to Bell who will threaten them with withdrawal of service.
4) If a human marketer—like Boris the Mover—leaves a long pitch instead of a simple callback number on your voicemail, be sure to call the company as invited. Tell them such tactics ensure they'll never have you as a customer, nor your friends and relatives, and why would they choose such a self-defeating sales strategy anyway. Same for businesses who ignore your "no flyers" sign. You can often do this on their VM.
People dumb enough to advertise this way need educating about the unintended consequences. Don't expect them to be grateful, treat their attention just as they did yours: as if it was free to abuse.
5)If that telemarketer's an actual human, be polite (cleaning the toilets at CB's a happier work experience) and tell them "Sorry, not interested, so I won't keep you, but good luck" and hang up w/o listening further.
Would not recommend this to people who are not as strong willed as you. I had an older family member who is somewhat ill, accept an in-home appointment with people like this for vacuum sales. Their behaviour was appalling, to the point of her having to call the police to get them out of the house (they didn't come, as they left when she got on the phone with the 911 operator). They were calling her names, being verbally abusive towards her and she felt threatened in her own home. Sometimes the guys that get sent on these calls aren't your regular nicey-nicey, mousey, hard-wroking, door-to-door, I'm-putting-myself-through-med-school types. They have attitudes and are trained in nasty sales tactics such that they may take it out on you before they take it out on their owners. Their personalities may even be prone to anti-social behaviour.Hard Idle said:
My sense is some of these sales people are very "shady". I'd rather that they just have my phone number, and not have them know where I live (assuming that info does not already come with the phone number they reached me at), should I piss them off.
I worked at a telemarketing centre this summer, and I have to say the best way to get removed from a list is to simple say "Please take me off your calling list" or "put me on your do not call list." Being calm and relaxed is the best way to do it.
If somebody screamed at me or was rude I simply placed them on "busy" option and set a call back for 5 minutes. And for people who think its tricking a telemarketer by saying something clever, like "I'll be right back", its not. We hear everything in the first week on the job. We know your not coming back to the phone, it gives us an excuse to take a break and relax. Nobody at my workplace got upset over anything a caller did, because none of use gave a shit what any random stranger thought.
Also, to the guy who thought it was smart to ask for the phone number like in Seinfeld, thats too old to work. We simply gave them a fake number quickly and said "I can't wait to hear from you sir, I'd love to discuss our offer in more detail. Have a nice day."
Its just a paycheck for the telemarketer, your feelings don't matter at all. Be polite and they'll be polite back. Be rude and they'll keep calling out of spite.
If somebody screamed at me or was rude I simply placed them on "busy" option and set a call back for 5 minutes. And for people who think its tricking a telemarketer by saying something clever, like "I'll be right back", its not. We hear everything in the first week on the job. We know your not coming back to the phone, it gives us an excuse to take a break and relax. Nobody at my workplace got upset over anything a caller did, because none of use gave a shit what any random stranger thought.
Also, to the guy who thought it was smart to ask for the phone number like in Seinfeld, thats too old to work. We simply gave them a fake number quickly and said "I can't wait to hear from you sir, I'd love to discuss our offer in more detail. Have a nice day."
Its just a paycheck for the telemarketer, your feelings don't matter at all. Be polite and they'll be polite back. Be rude and they'll keep calling out of spite.
