Telemarketers - I got THEIR NUMBER!!

[bns-sticky]

A telemarketer rang me before while I was enjoying a feed and the stupid person forgot to hide their phone number. I got it now.

Should I get pay back on the annoying pricks?

[HoZy]

hehe

I've told them i'm just about to go out can i have their number an i'd call them back, I've got there number sittin on my deask lol. Stupid idiot handed it out, probably like $6p/min lol

Cheers
MaT

[vh-holden]

is it an australian number?

[Troy711]

call them and ask if they want to buy an insurance policy. when they say no just keep talking. then abuse them for not wanting to listen, thats pretty much what they do to me. next time one of them calls here im guna throw a few 'f's and 'c's their way so they stop calling. i hate when they dont take no for an answer!

[Julie]

i just hang up on them straight away now before they hang up on me lol

[trepaul]

swearing and yelling at these people isn't going to do a damn thing. they would cop it all day, every day so it is a waste of breath. just hang up as soon as you figure out who they are.

[Blown V6 Hatch]

Post the number here so we can all call them up and give them s*#t!

[MOTIV8]

I always ask them their number and I tell that I will ring them back when they are having dinner or watching their favourite TV show or helping their kids with the homework. Then I hang up on them.

If I have time I start telling them about some of my (imagined), personal problems and health issues and just keep them on the phone for as long as possible.

Everytime I feel that they are going to hang up I let up a little and ask them about their product/service just enough to keep them on the phone before guiding the conversation back to some other totally unrelated topic.

About 30 minutes is my record but I only do this when I am extremely bored.

[Shounak]

They keep asking to speak to my dad about a "business opportunity"..

Once they start to get the message you're not interested, they'll just hang up on you mid sentence..

The international ones..

The local ones are a bit more polite..

[bns-sticky]

It is a 07 54** **** number which is the sunshine coast I think

I was thinking ringing them every 30mins from 11pm at night till 5 am one night when I have to do a Change over

[VS Omega]

Do you have a dial-up modem? Could be good for a laugh entering their number into the computer and have it automaticly redial 99 times (and they cop an earful of screeching). If they cry abuse, hey they started it by calling you lol

[jacko]

yeah that sounds like sunshine coast. they always seem to ring around dinner time, I usually say, What time do you get home from work and eat dinner so I can call you back and disrupt you?

[bns-sticky]

I didnt htink of the modem thing, mmmmm..........

I just rang a few minutes ago with my best Indian accent and tried to sell her a mobile phone. She told me she wasnt interested and hung up so called back and put my missus on the phone trying to sell her holiday. I'll try again later, I got a driver due in at around 2am and I have to help him hehehehehe I'll call again then.

[vh-holden]

i got caught out today. thought it was a telemarketer, but it was actually the jewellery shop riniging to tell dad his watch was ready.

[DavoTheGreat]

Have you guys been called by those new telemarketing machines - they're not even using people anymore!! Bastards.

[DJ Majah]

07 54 is a south east queensland regional number, so it could be the sunshine coast...or the gold coast or beaudesert or rosewood, in other words its a big area. But yeah, post it here and everyone call them. What were they trying to sell?

I used to work for a company that wanted me to set up a computer. What they do is call you, then when you answer it puts YOU on hold til someone is available to preach to you.

[EGG]

when you're finished having fun with them, you can always give their number to TT/ACA, they love that kind of stuff

[azkwazere]

i know!


They rang me..but i didn't answer (ie one ring) then when i rang back it was a stupid message...

"hi, did i just ring you?....thats becasue you won..blah blah blah"

fags

aZk.

[luvmycommodore]

My favourite is when i ask them if they can hold on for just a minute. Then i walk away and leave the phone off the hook. I give it a good 30 or 40 minutes before i go back and hang up. LOL

[BANGERS88]

My favourite is when i ask them if they can hold on for just a minute. Then i walk away and leave the phone off the hook. I give it a good 30 or 40 minutes before i go back and hang up. LOL

haha classic that would be at their expense to would it not

[Bec]

What happened in the original conversation? Ie was it polite no thanks ok cya, they let you hang up, or were they rude like most and hang up when you're mid sentence? What were they selling?

Just think it would be a good to know - incase you end up giving out the number. Sets the scene for how rude or polite we can be when we ring up

[starkeyholden]

If you call the number back, all you get is the company's receptionist sitting in a different room to the telemarketers, or an answermachine, or a computer trying to sell you stuff. Say they have 50 telemarketers, with a phone each... whichever one calls you, it doesn't matter as they all display the same number. What you want is their EXTENSION NUMBER (a variation in the last four numbers ) to be able to call the exact phone back

[vh-holden]

umm, wouldn't ringing them up and abusing them be pushign the boundaries of the law?

[fitzy2005]

haha classic that would be at their expense to would it not

lol it wood be, but every minute they on the fone they get paid for it remember...

[vh-holden]

and it is time that your phone is out of service and someone important could be ringing you.