cracked it, how to get won a holiday !!!!!! off the phone

mrsormrod

fluffnutter wrote: »

I used to ask them out on a date - you'd be amazed how many people don't seem to like being hit on by a stranger...

Seriously though, I signed up with the Telephone Preference Service because I got so outraged about cold calls. I don't get any now. Check out the website www.tpsonline.org.uk

I use these but stll get cold callers when i tell them im registered with tps they hang up! no appology and no good byes! how rude!!!!

Butterfly_Brain

:rotfl:Genius - I never thought of that one !
I usually tell them DH has been made redundant and it usually gets rid of the pests

churchrat

I always ask them if they have been saved, if they start talking about money I start talking about god..............................

aliadds

I use various excuses...I'm not the home owner , my (ex)husband fits double glazing, I've just suffered a bereavement! But the best one...especially when you're in a shop and they try and sign you up for a storecard....is to tell them you're on a credit blacklist! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Butterfly_Brain

Levichan wrote: »

I say that I'm just going to ask the lord jesus if its a good idea, then I'm quiet until they ask me somehing and then I say Shh i'm waiting for an answer.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

DVardysShadow

dampdaveski wrote: »

I've alternately 'meowed' and 'wuffed' every time they try to speak. to be fair though these people are bloody annoying but remember they are out trying to earn a living and arn't sat at home claiming benefits with no intention of trying to get a job.
I also appreciate that a lot of people on benefits would love to get a job, my remark was aimed solely at professional 'claimants'

But now you mention it, these are people who you would prefer to stay at home and claim benefits.

Stephb1986_2

Well I'm back with my report on fobbing off these sales people.

We have tried all the above methods of getting rid of them

talking to god didn't work he just laughed and told the person sat next to him!!

asking a favourite sexual position didn't work he actually told me! :shock:

Any other suggestions?

Steph xx

RockGypsy

My favourite line to give them is a quote from Family Guy let them waffle a bit and say "Enough of the foreplay,what you selling?" usually go quiet

partlydave

If I'm approached in shopping centres by Sky or kitchens etc, I sometimes say I live in a caravan. That ends the conversation.

fluffnutter

Why bother getting into a conversation at all? If you don't feel able to say 'no thanks' and then hang up just put the handset down - don't hang up, but certainly don't listen. They won't hang on if no-one's responding. It's in their interest to make as many calls as possible so they'll soon hang up and you don't have to listen to their spiel or feel like you have to be rude.

I don't know why people don't just join the TPS. I don't get cold calls at all. Imagine if everyone was signed up to the TPS! A whole industry gone, just like that. Still, I guess it keeps people in employment....