How To Get Rid of Telemarketers

[Mike413]

Originally Posted by NorCalKurt

ask them to hold on, set the phone down and go about your business, drives them nuts. sometimes I will come back and they will still be there, then ask them to hang on again.

Wow, you mean I"m not the only one who does that?

One I discovered recently is to say hold on. Then I put on the radio or some other music and then get back to them. I hate it when I am put on hold(sometimes unnecessarily)so I started doing it to them. Sometimes they hang up on me. I haven't tried it with actual telemarketers yet since I don't seem to get many of those anymore(the one benefit of still having a computer that uses a phone line )but I've done it with people who give me crap over the phone.

[Elric68]

I usually tell them that I/my mother/my dad (depending on who they're asking for) am/is dead ...