Do you ever string telemarketers along instead of letting them go right away?

I dislike telemarketers, the way they speak, etc. Therefor, if I am not interested in buying, I'll just hang up as soon as possible. Once you string them up, you will find great difficulty to say no. They're trained that way.

Besides, why waste my time or theirs? They just do their job. I might have been in their places if I can't find work and I definitely don't want to be strung along.

I always screen calls and you can usually tell if it is a telemarketer. If on the off chance I do answer I usually answer and then when I realize it is one of them I will lay the phone down and walk off. I come back in a few minutes after they have hung and hang up the phone.

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I have before on the ones that won't let you get a word in edge wise.. I figure if they want to waste my time fine.. ill waste it wasting theirs.

I like to make them think I'm hard of hearing, so they have to yell. I've been known to get into long, personal conversations with them, then tell them that my husband is a member of the FBI, and I'd really have to check them out before I bought anything, so could they give me their personal info? They never call back.

There have been times when I did, but I started to refrain from handing out my phone number for random issues. There are only a few people that actually have it, and I'd like to keep it that way. Warning: these videos may contain obscene language, parental discretion is advised.

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Yes, I pretend to be Hawkeye or Colonel Potter. I talk in their voices and tell them I'm out in the middle of Korea and have no need for a cell phone. It always gives me a laugh.

If they have the nerve to try to tell me that they are NOT telemarketers and are aggressive and I'm in a mood, I will string them along and annoy them so much that they hang up on ME! Otherwise I pity anyone who has to do that for a living and am polite but firm in ending the call.

No. In fact, what I often do is pick up the phone just long enough to say "No, thank you" and hang up immediately. I appreciate my Caller ID service and the fact that I am so often able to know when it is a telemarketer, and I like to stop annoying conversations before they can even begin.

I am fortunate in that I do not have to deal with this very often, and when a particular telemarketer becomes too persistent in repeatedly calling after we've told them to stop, my hubby reports them. We are on the Do Not Call Registry list. flickr.com/photos/alexkerhead/ / CC BY 2.0 flickr.com/photos/alexkerhead/3119983646.

Not with the personal telemarketers but the business ones who call then try to tell you the guy who always orders is not available and then tells you your company needs lightbulbs, copier paper, cleaning and toilet supplies. Of course they are lying and will send a bill for 3-4X what the cost is if you give them your name. So I always string them along and place really big orders and just to make them think they hit the jackpot tell them that person has gone back to their Country for 3 weeks to visit do I need anything else.

They will pile on all types of things and then I OK it. But they need your name so when they ask my name I ask for what and they say they have to ship it to the person that placed the order. I always tell them to ship it to the person you always do otherwise I would have to unload it.

That's when they hang-up and realize I wasted their time.

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