Ways to stop overseas sales calls discussion

shallotman

When I get a cold call, I say that I am interested, then put the phone down and carry on watching the tele.

d-seven

clockworkpurple wrote: »

Two words: sex noises.

That actually reminds me of a cold call I had years ago; after I told them I wasnt interested, I put the phone down. However, when I went to make a call about 15 minutes later, I heard voices; the call centre phone hadnt hung up. I heard a man and woman from the call centre talking about an@l sex in graphic detail!
It has comedy value now, but my phone line was tied up for over an hour and even when I shouted down the phone, they werent able to hear me!

pete_v

My housemate took a call the other day from someone trying to sell double glazing. He started off sounding interested, but admitted that there might be a problem in that he didn't actually have any windows. It took a few attempts before the caller took this in, and he explained that he lived in an underground concrete bunker with no windows. The salesman carried on, saying he could at least sell him a nice uPVC front door, but my housemate said he didn't have a door either. The guy on the phone asked him how he got in and out of his house.

He said "Have you ever heard of teleportation?"

To his credit, the caller laughed and thanked him for the best call he'd had all day, before hanging up.

Pete

simplybest

I have made a sort of game with these cold callers I see how long I can keep them on, starting with the "I cannot understand you can you please get somebody who can speak english" to " say again no still do not understand you do you have a Supervisor". Supervisors are the best fun especially from Indian call centres, they try to impress their hapless callers, next "I can understand you a little better but I have a bad line" this really gets them going I always remember that they are paying for the call and we all know that time is money.

Squeekyclean

Been plagued with these calls for over a week now, probably about ten to fifteen per day, recently from an Indian caller claiming to be calling on behalf oh Eon Energy, totally fed up and time to have some fun.

I have emailed Eon and complained but I feel they won't answer the email or just pass on my details so others can cold call or email me, what they won't know is that the email address is disposable and just got on caller display, so any numbers outside of the UK can listen to my answer machine.

Penny_Pin

I get my two year old son to talk gibberish to them; usually gets rid of them!

tealady

When people ring and ask for Mrs Tealady if they are genuine then I will speak to them. If its a sales call then I am going to tell them they have the wrong Mrs Tealady and say I will get the right one. Then I will come back on line and pretend to be someone else!

Col7777

I've done most of the tricks mentioned on this forum, when I'm in the mood I enjoy leading them on etc.

But one that always sticks in my mind was a guy phoned and asked to speak to my wife as she had just won a £100 voucher to shop at some warehouse.
Luckily I thought quick and asked how she won the voucher, he said her name had been picked out of the hat from a recent survey, I asked how they conducted the survey, he said over the phone.
This is where I got him, I said can you phone her again as I would love to ask her a few questions myself, he said he didn't understand, I said, "Well you seem to have the power to speak to the dead, you see my wife died over 10 years ago."
He hung up, but I got his number and phoned him back, I pretended to be very upset and started to cry saying how he had brought back sad memories etc, he was saying things like it must have been a mistake and he may have dialed the wrong number, but I said how could you as you asked to speak to my wife by name, again he hung up.
I didn't phone him back but the part about my wife being dead was true, but it goes to show that he was telling lies and probably thinking he could get someone vulnerable to go to the warehouse and spend a fortune.

Came back to add:
I just thought of anther one, I was on my Flight Simulator one day and I got one of these calls, I said, You have caught me in mid air, I'm an airline pilot you see, just hang on I'm getting a call from air traffic," then I put the phone next to the speakers, all he could hear was the flight sim air traffic giving instructions.
After the air traffic stopped I got back on and said, "Give me your number and I'll try and call back when I land at Singapore," he hung up but I got a laugh out of it.

Mark7799

1. I love caller ID
2. When a number comes up as 'International' I answer the phone in Welsh - never fails!

tamalyn

not amused i got woken up at 8am this morning by an international number asking me if i had sky tv, i said no and hung up - hes lucky he didnt get a load of swear words at that time of the morning!!! lol