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A Perfect Phone Call (True Story)

yotehtr said:
I gotta call from Publishers Clearinghouse saying I won 350,000.00 dollars. Which I have never intered. He asked if I wanted local news crews to be notified. I said sure. He asked for my address,, which I said he should already know. He said he had it, I just needed to verify. I gave him a phoney address. He replied that it was correct. I kept waiting for the hook. He kept going on and on. Finally he said he needed 400.00 and was ready for my CC. I told him to take it out of the 350 thousand. He said he couldn't do that. He kept saying he needed to pay the delivery drivers in the van. They could be at my house at 3pm. He Finally got down to 50 dollars just for gas money again wanting my CC number. I finally said after bout 45 minutes, I didn't have a CC. He cussed me out & hung up.
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I used to tell my coworkers about those PCH commercials, "If you ever see ME on one of those commercials where Dick and Ed show up in a van and hand me a check for five million dollars, you'd better hit the RECORD button, because that's the last time you will EVER see me."

"Wouldn't you come in to work to pick up your stuff from your office?" they'd ask.

"Hells no," I'd answer. "F all that. I wouldn't even go back in my HOUSE. I'm getting right in the van with Dick and Ed that very minute; I'm going wherever Dick and Ed go." ;) :LOL:
 
.... many years ago - the Bob & Tom radio show decided to do a number on some telemarketers. Here is the result of one call:

 
Snake45 said:
This is a true story, and happened this morning. The Lovely Mrs. Snake heard it all, and can testify.


Setup: This is the time of year when, if you are an American over 65, you will get many, MANY phone calls trying to sell you "Medicare supplemental insurance." The tipoff that these are sales calls is the word "Medicare." NO ONE from Medicare will ever call you for any reason. If you need to talk to them, YOU have to call THEM (and probably wait on line for hours, but that's not what I'm here to tell you). ANY mention of Medicare IS a sales call. The vast majority of these are recorded robo-calls, but every now and then one will be a real live person, which I take as an opportunity to have some fun. Okay, here we go.


CALLER: (In very slight Indian accent)"Good morning, sir, this is Carol with Medicare assistance. How are you today?"

ME: (In happy, upbeat mood) "Hi, Carol, I'm doing great! What are you wearing?"

CALLER: (After a few seconds) "I'm sorry, I don't think I heard you. What did you say?"

ME: (Still happy and upbeat) "I said Hi, Carol, I'm doing great! What are you wearing?"

CALLER: (After a pause of a few more seconds) "Sir, that is NONE of your business!!!"

ME: (Still happy and upbeat) "Hey, YOU called ME!"

CALLER: "F*** you!"(Click)


I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants.
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Feel free to try this yourself. You'll be glad you did!
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I’m stealing this one for sure.
 
I worked as a Telemarketer for 5 months or so after I got out of the Army. A couple of things I learned were that the predictive dialer dials random numbers, some of them aren't even phone numbers but if you pick up that phone they know they have a real number and they will continue to call it.

The second thing I learned was to be polite to telemarketers. I don't care about the "Do not call list" because I'm not the one paying the 10,000 dollar fine but if you scream in my ear and cuss me out I will put your number right back in the que, list you as high interest or "wants more information" and list whatever dinner time in your time zone is for best call back time.

I called a home one morning (late afternoon where they were at) selling credit cards. The person who answered the phone told me that the person I was calling was his domestic partner and that his partner wasn't interested in my GD credit cards. He was pretty nasty about it so I went straight into script mode:

"Thank you sir, because the offer was in Mr. Soandso's name I would need to speak directly with him. Is there a convenient time I could call back?"

No matter what he said I just kept repeating that line. 10 minutes later, when he hung up he was literally SCREAMING into the phone and threatening to hunt me down and kill me.

To which I continued to reply:

"Thank you sir, because the offer was in Mr. Soandso's name I would need to speak directly with him. Is there a convenient time I could call back?"

When he hung up I put him right back in Que and kicked it up to "Wants more information" another telemarketer probably called him back before I finished my next call.

Last thing, **** off a scammer and your phone WILL NOT EVER stop ringing. They will put your number on a robodialer and it will call you over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

If my phone rings and I don't recognize the number I don't answer. If the caller doesn't leave a message I pull the call up in my call log and set my phone to automatically blocks calls from that number. My phone is a cheap Samsung Galaxy if it has that feature I know the more expensive ones do.
 
If my phone rings and I don't recognize the number I don't answer. If the caller doesn't leave a message I pull the call up in my call log and set my phone to automatically blocks calls from that number. My phone is a cheap Samsung Galaxy if it has that feature I know the more expensive ones do.

Exactly what I do. I don't have the time, or the energy, to deal with what they're selling. If I want something, I go out and buy it...or arrange to buy it online. These days I get all the human interaction I need (or want) at work. I conserve my time and energy for the people I care about, those whom I wish to interact with. But I have to tell ya, this thread has given me some ideas... :cool:
 
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