Dealing with cold callers

[louise]

Just had a company ring me asking to speak to the homeowner, i asked what it was about and they replied that "my address has been chosen to receive a discounted kitchen"

No probs I replied I will put you onto the home owner. I dumped the phone in my guinea pigs, Harry and Sparkys cage went in the kitchen, russled a few bags to set them off wheeking and then left them to it. Needless to say the company soon hung up and they got a carrot each as a thank you

 

[alecstilleyedye]

as our 'pigs are in for the winter, i'll follow you example next time

 

[yenrod]

>Dealing with cold callers

Warm them up ????

 

[Joe24]

Tell them your just robbing the house, that always confuses them

 

[Flyingfox]

I'm x-directory and I don't get any cold callers

The only people who ring me on my home phone are my parents, everyone else phones my mobile.

 

[Milo]

just put the phone down next to the telly with some loud porn on.

 

[Ashtrayhead]

Subscribe to http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/ which should stop you getting them.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Tell them your just robbing the house, that always confuses them

That would be 'burgling' a house, you can only rob a person.

 

[ComedyPilot]

To deal with cold callers I always do this: tell them it's not my house, and that the owner is in the garden, tell them I'll go and get them, then put the phone on the side. I then go back to what ever I was doing, and if they're still on the phone after five mins I tell them it's a bog garden and the owner will be there in a bit. longest i had was about 10 mins ha, ha.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

one way of pissing them off (if it's double glazing or kitchens) is to sound really interested, let them finish their spiel, then say "sounds great, i'll get onto the council first thing tomorrow".

 

[ianrauk]

You could always get as angry as this fella


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj2oXMdZ4sk


WARNING... CONTAINS SWEARING

 

[Maz]

Subscribe to http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/ which should stop you getting them.

+1
I did that and the cold calls have stopped.

 

[ianrauk]

And for those who do not wish to receive moutains of junk mail..

http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/

Works well too...

 

[wafflycat]

Subscribe to http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/ which should stop you getting them.

Alas they don't stop the ones being made from abroad... which is a shame.

 

[Tharg2007]

you need the telemarketing counterscript by the phone