Telemarketing Trick

[MouseWife]

I think that Morri, you are not an 'official' telemarketer.

I also try to be polite and respectful. I know they are doing their job {yes, I agree, a job that is quite questionable but they are only the worker bees, I can't even imagine what the companies get....}.

What kills me is when I answer, they give me their spiel without me being able to get a word in and then I calmly tell them 'No thanks' as polite as can be and they HANG UP ON ME. WTF? Can't they be polite in return? I agree with you, SacTown, this is when I get mad. They are calling me out of the blue, calling me away from whatever it is I am doing in my own personal life, and what are the times/dates that are illegal for them to call???

Another thing~now I have caller i.d. So, I don't have to answer but I do. To tell them to quit calling and remove me from their list. The problem is, some callers hang up when I pick up. What is up with that? I have a number that is coming up a bunch of times and twice when I've tried to answer it quickly to tell them to quit calling they hang up. Without saying a word.

Has anyone ever called one of these numbers back? Some do not even look like real phone numbers which really makes me wonder who they are.

And, what is sad, I know if it is a long distance call, which is what these calls usually are, by its' ring. So, in that p.o.'d mode I answer a long distance call...it was my niecie.

Anywho, anyone call? I have been toying with calling back some of these numbers.