Don't piss off telemarketers! (funny story)

[RT pRo AuToMaG]

Ok, I was sitting down watching TV and this guy calls and wants me to take a survey for some company (forgot the name of them) about family relations or somehting like that, so I tell to stop (insert faveroite four letter word here + ing) calling and I hung up. About an hour later he calls again, tell him the same thing. Then later during the night, I get two more calls where someone was just listening in on the other line, say hello a few times and hang up the first time, the second time I do the same, and tell them to stop calling (nicely this time). At about 11 pm, someone calls from Tuscon, AZ (God I love caller ID) saying that they were gonna shoot up my house and kill me, and that they (another word for had sex with) my mom. I was busting out laughing, and he goes, you think this is a joke, and I say yes, and who is this? All of a sudden it clicked, and I go, are you the telemarketer from earlier? I get dead silence on the line, then I start laughing and say, I thought so, and hung up. He called again and I didn't answer.

He didn't piss me off or anything when he called (I actually thought it was very funny) but do you think I should report him to the phone company anyway? Appearently this guy is a loser if he is a telemarketer and feels that he has to call back someone that offended him. He sounded a little drunk as well. If I only knew who he worked for so I could get his *** fired!

[RT pRo AuToMaG]

hehe, we're having fun with his telephone number on pbn...

[t33kyboy]

you should watch out... have you watched the movie phone booth?

[RT pRo AuToMaG]

lol, nope, but that guy got really pissed when all the people started calling his phone.

[Emily]

Yes you should report him. They are not allowed to harrass people. Next time be a little nicer when you tell them you do not want to talk to them or take a survey and don't harrass them back. I'm not sure what will happen since you've now started harrassing him.

[Dayspring]

Next time, pick up the phone and just yell into his ear. Or my personal favorite, start reciting vegetable names to him.

[Fred]

I've started just leaving the phone off the hook while I go do something... like watch TV... if you can, turn the volume up and see how it takes for them to realize no-one is on the other end of the line...

[RevBrown]

My usual response to telemarketers is of the following variety,

Is it free? or Do I get something for free?
I know that these people are doing their jobs but the stunned silence is priceless.

[punkncat]

I always have them go through their sales pitch. Ask them as many stupid questions as you can think of , repeating a few over again. I keep them tied up on the phone as long as possible , and then tell them I am not interested.

I also use the set the phone down trick mentioned before.

[-=Squid=-]

Scream in the phone, then say hello. Then when they say hello, scream again then say hello again. Repeat.

I did this a little bit ago, and the lady said "ok kiddy, your not funny, so stop. Ill call back later."

Bahaa...

I like telling them my mom had a stroke and giving my 3 year old sister the phone too

[RT pRo AuToMaG]

OMG THE GUY CALLED BACK!!!!

My mom picked up the phone, and he goes hey, can I talk to the man of the house, and my mom goes, he's not here right now, can I take a message, and then the dude goes, I wanna talk to the man of the house, and then my mom goes, he's not here, and he goes, look, this is buisness *****, and my mom goes, don't talk to me like that, and hung up on him. I'm gonna report his *** to bellsouth next time he calls.

He must have been calling from work b/c it said 'private number' just like it did when he called for the survey.

His cell phone number is 520-409-4581 (that's where he called me from last night, and upon trying a reverse phone lookup, I was notified that it was a cell phone number.)

[SlartyBartFast]

We used to get calls from the same company every year, and every year we told them to leave us alone we didn't want their services. I fact we had no need for their services at all. They were trying to have us let them come over a give us a 'free estimate' for cleaning our heating ducts and we had a hot-water baseboard system (i.e. no ducts).

Well one year, after being called a number of times, my dad snapped and decided not to scream at them that time. He calmly and enthusiastically said we'd love to have them give us an estimate. So they set up an appointment.

So, on a Saturday afternoon a big truck pulls up to the house and guy in overalls gets out and comes to the door. We let him in...

He gets inside the entry and sees the radiator.

Him: "Are you kidding me? You don't have ducts!'
My dad "That's what we tried telling you for years. You seemed so desperate to clean them, figured we'd let you see for yourself."
Him: "BLEEP!"

Never got another call from ANY duct cleaning company ever again.

[RT pRo AuToMaG]

We are really scaring him on pbn, this guy's life is gonna suck for the next few weeks. We also found out that this guy is not black, he is a white 'gangsta' and that he lives with his mom (when one guy called him he put his mom on the phone!!).

Here is the link:

http://www.pbnation.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=521101&perpage=21&pagenumber=1

[Lohman446]

LMAO.. I figure its points - I mean I keep score

Telemarkter: Hi.. is this the man of the house
Me: Umm... yeh but Im, uh, really really busy right now
Telemarketer: This is only going to take a moment of your time
Me: Uh, yeh, umm... sure
Telemarketer: I'm so and so from the carpet cleaning company
Me: Really, you guys clean carpets
TM: Yes we do sir.
Me: Do you have same day service
TM: Yes we do sir
Me: Can you get blood out, I mean all the way, so it can't be seen with that dye stuff either.
TM: What do you mean
Me: Well, theres a lot of blood.. and the police...

[Restola]

I've started just leaving the phone off the hook while I go do something... like watch TV... if you can, turn the volume up and see how it takes for them to realize no-one is on the other end of the line...

lol we did that once to a jerk who wouldn't say who he was, only that he wasnted to speak to "Mrs. (my mom)", turns out it was this (insert expletive here) cop who was trying to reach my brother when they found his car (it was parked less than a mile from the police station in a handicap spot collecting tickets for over a week). this cop actually accused my brother with a straight face of stealing his own car. turns out it was his insane ex-girlfriend (which we told him on day one, who they never talked to), who later admitted that to the police.

anyways after sitting with the phone on the counter for probably 10 minutes he calls back. he was so pissed he was yelling at my stepdad about obstruction of justice and other crap, so my step dad told him he was full of (more expletives) and to stop making idle threats, then hung up again.