One tactic I like to do when I have time is to put them on speakerphone. I continue my work, and they continue their spiel. I try to ask them to repeat what they said (as many times as I can), and if they refuse, I simply refuse to answer. They will continue to say "Are you there?" for about a minute. HAHAHA! This will waste a good 3-5 minutes of their time.
If everyone did this, telemarketing as a practice would become too expensive to do, and ALL telemarketing calls would stop. Also, the telemarketers have no defense against this, because they can't tell whether you're just wasting their time or whether you're really interested.
In telemarketing, as in anything, if you make it too expensive for them, they will stop.
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How to piss off a telemarketer:
Waste their time-- as much of it as possible.
One tactic I like to do when I have time is to put them on speakerphone. I continue my work, and they continue their spiel. I try to ask them to repeat what they said (as many times as I can), and if they refuse, I simply refuse to answer. They will continue to say "Are you there?" for about a minute. HAHAHA! This will waste a good 3-5 minutes of their time.
If everyone did this, telemarketing as a practice would become too expensive to do, and ALL telemarketing calls would stop. Also, the telemarketers have no defense against this, because they can't tell whether you're just wasting their time or whether you're really interested.
In telemarketing, as in anything, if you make it too expensive for them, they will stop.