Have you wondered what to do when you get annoying telesales calls? Of course you could ask them to remove you from their list. But if the company your talking to didn’t take notice the first time then whats the chaces of them listening this time? Probably not very high. After all they are trying so hard to get you to sign with them that they don’t really want to leave you alone.
So what can you do? Personally i say have some fun with them. After all its your time they decided to waste. Why not waste some of theirs in return?
I got the idea quite some time ago from a friend of mine who had enough of teleasales harrassing him, Infact thinking about it. Most of my friends have had enough of these stupid phone calls. The idea my friend gave me was to sound all interested then say you had to answer the door. This is the point where you need to get them to hold as long as possible.
When you say you need to answer the door. Place the phone near a speaker or television. This generally only takes a few moments for the sales rep to realise your not interested and move along.
But what if you wanted even more fun? Well there are ways. Yesterday i was on skype to a friend and he got one of these annoying calls. Now my friend has a extremely funny sense of humour. So not only did it ensure the telesales marketer wouldn’t call back. It also provided fun and entertainment for me and my m8 who were on skype.
The call started with the woman asking if he was the home owner. He replied yes. She then went on about how his number and address were randomly picked and they could benefit from a new kitchen. But only if the kitchecn was over 10 years old. My friend saw his chance, grabbing it with both hands he said to her “Hang on i’ll just go and ask my kitchen how old it is.” The woman held for a while when suddenly my friend returned.
“I asked the kitchen cupboard its age. It claims its only 14, but i think it’s lying” He told her. She seemed kinda puzzled by his reply and asked “Is this a shared house?”. To which he replied ” No…. I live in a tent”. It didn’t take her long to decide that she was just wasting her time and she bid him farewell and hung up. He only managed to waste a total of 5-8 minutes of her time. But it was enough that she should of put a mark against his number not to be called again. After all. Why waste even more of their time?
The list of things you can do to bug the sh*t outta telesales callers is longer than your arm. If you do decide to have some fun with these callers. make sure to drop by and let us know what you did to wind them up. I am pretty sure other readers will be interested and inspired by your ideas.