9:38 AM I get hit with a telemarketer...

[CaramonLS]

On December 23rd... what the hell?

Seriously!!!

I'm so p*ssed at being woken from my slumber!

[Claeren]

I work graveyards (plus a day job, plus university) so i have little sympathy! lol...

ZERO respect for alternative work schedules. The worst is when i am groggy and i just say 'no thank you' and they argue with me and want to know why! Um... 'cause it is 3am for me even though it is 6pm for you, stupid sh*ts....

Claeren.

[habernac]

I got that at 9am on a Sunday. Can't wait for the national "do not call" list.

[Claeren]

Originally posted by habernac@Dec 23 2004, 11:14 AM
I got that at 9am on a Sunday. Can't wait for the national "do not call" list.

Supposedly there is one that already exists that covers about 60% of all calls... ??

It is a semi-secret list that all the major industry players in Canada have signed on to as a sign of corporate ethics of some shizzle like that...

Still get the small timers who just prowl the phone book though.

Claeren.

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

for three weeks in a row I got the same telemarketer calling me on Saturday at about 9:00 am. Not just the same company, but the same lady. She mispronounced my name wrong all three times (and Hulkrogan can attest to the fact that it isn't in the least bit hard to say/read). Anyway, I usually just said no thanks and hung up, but the third time I acutlly said in a rather stern way,

"You've called me three times now and you sill can't pronounce my name correctly, so no, I don't care what you're selling, I don't want it."

Haven't heard from them since.

[FlamesAllTheWay]

Originally posted by CaramonLS@Dec 23 2004, 10:53 AM
On December 23rd... what the hell?

Seriously!!!

I'm so p*ssed at being woken from my slumber!

Hahaha I was thinking of starting a thread just like this for annoying telemarketers and charities that constantly call whenever they feel like it. I don't even pick up the phone any more from about 11ish (rarely am I hit at 9:38!) till around 5 or 6 cause I know it's gonna be a charity looking for my parents.

I think what I am going to start doing is get the name of the charity, say both my parents have died and then listen to the person on the other end stutter and stumble through their reply. I want to get the name of the charity though to see if they call back because I am almost 100% certain that a week or two later they'll start calling again...

[calf]

Actually, there's new(ish) legislation out there that says a charity/other company must identify itself immediately when you pick up, or if they're an agent, must identify them as that too. As well, if you request they never call you again, they have to put you on an internal 'do not call list' no questions asked.

[FlamesAllTheWay]

Originally posted by calf@Dec 23 2004, 12:23 PM
Actually, there's new(ish) legislation out there that says a charity/other company must identify itself immediately when you pick up, or if they're an agent, must identify them as that too. As well, if you request they never call you again, they have to put you on an internal 'do not call list' no questions asked.

Interesting, cause maybe half (and that's being generous) actually do identify themselves at the end of the call, but none really do it right when I pick up, if at all...

[moon]

I haven't recieved a telemarketing call in a long long time. I have no reason why because I have never put my name on any list or told them not to call just haven't got any.

Of course after saying this now I will get a ton.

[Neeper]

You guys can tell them to take you off their list and they'll stop calling. Worked for me, but I still get the odd call from other companies. I tell them to take me off, and they won't call back.

[Reaper]

Originally posted by habernac@Dec 23 2004, 10:14 AM
I got that at 9am on a Sunday. Can't wait for the national "do not call" list.

I am also in the camp waiting for a national "do not call" list.

If the Calgary Herald calls me and asks me to subscribe again I think I'm gonna freak out.

I've received ten calls in the last six months asking me to subscribe and every time I've said "No, thank you and I do not wish to subscribe on weekends."

Yet they continue to call regularly...

[CrzyCanuck]

If you only go with a cell, instead of a home phone, you'd get no calls.

However, telus likes to send text emails once in a while.

[albertGQ]

Originally posted by CrzyCanuck@Dec 23 2004, 01:43 PM
If you only go with a cell, instead of a home phone, you'd get no calls.

However, telus likes to send text emails once in a while.

Roger's does that too

:angry:

[CaramonLS]

I've gotten a total of 6 calls today, at least 4 a day for the last week.

I don't know what the hecks up with this "barrage", anyways the important people who call have my cell number, so when I dont bother to pick up the home phone they know where they can reach me.

[InTheSlot]

Best ever:

*Phone rings*

*Jerry Seinfeld Answers*

Telemarketer: "Hi, are you interested in purchasing <insert product name here>?"

Seinfeld: "Mmm, sorry, but I'm about to step out the door and I can't talk right now...tell you what, why don't you give me your home phone number, I'll call you tomorrow, and we can talk about this some more."

Telemarketer: "Um...I don't think we're allowed to do that."

Seinfeld: "Why not? I thought we were friends.... You called me at my house, so why can't I call you at your's?"

*click*

[Incinerator]

This is exactly why I axed my home phone line years ago. Cell is the only way to go. I still get telemarketers sometimes because I use the cell as my home phone number on anything I have to give my home phone number to, I mostly get my banks calling me to add credit card balance protection plans, but here's the kicker: with a cell you can put it on silent when you sleep, so you'll never get a wakeup call from these crooks, and ALSO on most phones you can block incoming calls from certain numbers, so just block all 1-800 or 1-866 numbers and you've got these telemarketer calls cut down about 90%. I haven't had a telemarketer call me in a year save for the odd ones that called when my phone was on silent. I work graveyards quite often too.

[murph_grrl]

Woah. You mean we got something right down here in the States for once?

I have to say that since the Massachusetts Do Not Call list started, the number of telemarketing calls went down drastically. And since the National one started, it went to zero.

In fact, the only telemarketers who are allowed to call are charities and those I already do business with. Charities I require to send me stuff in the mail (which they hate to do, but I won't donate over the phone - if at all), which gets them off the phone in a hurry, and you can tell the ones you do business with to stop calling you and they usually listen (since they are often afraid of losing you as a customer). Oh - we got some political campaign calls during the election, but only one or two at the end of October (and no Curt Schilling out shilling for Bush...)

You guys should really push to get one. It's amazing how much the phone stops ringing! (Of course, now I know people who are starting to complain about getting the calls on their cells, since the DNC list doesn't cover cellular).

[Maritime Q-Scout]

I get a few calls per day at my apartment in Halifax (oddly next to none at home). That's to the micracle of Caller ID, if it's a 1-800 number I just pick up my cordless and hit "end" which hangs up without actually pickup up. What a great feature.

I know lots of people that have worked in call centres, most people don't have sympathy for them, I realize that the majority of telemarketers don't like calling you any more than you like being called. They do it because the pay is good and tuition is high.

That said they have to enter a rebuttal because it's their job. My rule of thumb is never get mad at the telemarketer unless they cross the line in what they say. (My room mate had a chairty ask if he'd donate to the blind, he said he didn't have any money to donate, after him telling them no 3 or 4 times they actually had the gaul to say to him "how would you like it if you were blind?!?!" I don't know if they expected him to say "oh in that case" or his actual responce of "F*&^ YOU!!! *click*)



As responce to the Jerry scenerio, one of my friends did the following (he was the telemarketers)

Joe New Yorker: WHERE DO YOU LIVE? I'M GONNA TAKE MY SHOTGUN AND HUNT YOU DOWN!!!

Friend: it's a long walk from New York Mr. Jones





as well as:

Joe American: What's your home phone number, I'm gonna call you!

Friend: 902-842-9534 (or whatever it was, it was his real phone number) it's most inconvient for me between the hours of 4 and 7 am in your timezone.





if I'm not mistaken someone else threatened to shoot him and he said "I live in Glace Bay Nova Scotia, infact the call centre is right on the main street here, you can't miss it... good luck getting that gun across the boarder buddy"



See it works both ways

[Frank the Tank]

Originally posted by calf@Dec 23 2004, 06:23 PM
Actually, there's new(ish) legislation out there that says a charity/other company must identify itself immediately when you pick up, or if they're an agent, must identify them as that too. As well, if you request they never call you again, they have to put you on an internal 'do not call list' no questions asked.

Actually that doesn't always work. I have requested that both Bell and Rogers never ever call me again as I will never in my life be customers of theirs, yet they still call at least once a month.... :angry:

[???]

i love telemarketers, i always ask them to hold for a minute, come back and do it again and again and if they dont hang up i tell them im under 18 and dont have a credit card. good times. that or just talk to a person beside me and keep asking the telemarketer "could you repeat that" . i think more telemarketers hang up on me then i do on them. sadly they dont call much anymore. but every now and then a girl would call who sounded hot...... and bam ten minute survey.... and a gym membership {doh}