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When we got/get OS calls (usually an India call centre on behalf of an Oz company) we just say...
"Hang on a Kangaroo just jumped the back fence, I'll just be a minute, gotta go grab the bugger, can you hold on?"
I then place the phone down and leave it....
Its their money and time, they hang up eventually! We had one guy hold for 45 minutes OS :wink:
Cheers
Mike
Next call will be the last. Have some fun at anothers expense. Every time you're asked a question, say can you repeat that? I can't understand what you're saying.
After a few minutes of this fun 'n' games, ask which country they're based in, talk about the weather, ask if they know your uncle who works in that country, once you get a country identification, ask for a decent dinner recipe pertinent to that country.
Once you've tied them up for about, say, five minutes, tell them you have a contract with another provider for the next, say, five years at $1 a month and if they can beat that, well, good!
Thank you for your call and by the way, I divert my phone, you're calling me on a mobile phone its always diverted.
They'll go imediately, mobiles cost money.
But having put up with this stuff for a while, I got the most amazing deal from telstra. $1 a month for the first 12 months, a free broadband modem, unlimited internet, free movies and music downloads, and (another) moblie phone.
No wonder the telstra share price is so sad.
Turn the aggro into an advantage, from my experience the telemarketers will do big deals. (I'm not a telemarketer).
Or,
send me the info to my mail address and I'll call you if its good,
or
I don't use credit cards.
or
put on the punjabi accent - is that you my cousin dali? I've been wanting yoooo to call me and now I can't talk to you because the curry is burning down the house and the kids have brought home a goat for me to slaughter, they want it for dinner, now! bloody children!
To deal effectively with madness one must know the quarry well, and it's not a quarry full of water hiline.
Cheers, GQ Now I'm off to have a beer.
G'day crump https://www.aulro.com/afvb/
I always answer the phone using the last 3 digets of the number, a leftover of my working days where we had multiple extensions, that usually gets instant hang up https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ If not and they start speaking and, if I get a hint of a curry- muncher's accent, I just say Nien Spaken ze Anglish, Spaken ze Duitch :?: (the german speakers will hang me for the spelling ) but it get a hang up every time https://www.aulro.com/afvb/
Bung-Tiddley
The best reply I came up with was when I was trying to get some food in my 4 year old. Of course they called at dinner time, and so I figured if they wanted to listen to me eat, they could. I replied "just a minute", and set the phone down on the table, and continued eating. My wife wondered why the phone was off the hook 2 hours later when she returned. I still have my mobile if someone needs me. They got to hear all about kinder, and Spiderman.
all i will say is make sure you take agood look at your phonebill statement when you get it through
as in the uk i don't know if it has ever happened here, but there were a few people that got calls to there mobiles and things similar to what you got!! but as soon as they awnsered the phone they were charged an astronomical amount of money..................and with mobiles even when they hung up they were still getting charged for the call.......
nasty peice of work the scammers that thought that one up!!!!
my mum aslo got caught by some one loading a dialer on to her computer when she was on dial up from over the internet and when se opened her phone bill she had over £100 pounds worth of calls for that month thats well over $200,,,,,,and she had to pay it even though it wasn't her that made the calls......
i'm not saying this has happened to you by any means all i'm saying is scammers are getting really clever these days so be really careful and just make sure you check your bills
dullbird
I have a cheapo old phone and can't tell if it is "private" or what it is. I find when I answer there is a rather long pause when it these telemarketer. So if there's a pause I put the phone down.
When people call me they better launch straightr in and identify themselves of they get hung up on.
I can still remember a bit of German from my grand mother so I start talking in German to them "Vos ist dos? nic spreken englese"
Mind you I like the idea of asking what are they wearing.
Blitz
Yes, it is illegal in Victoria to threaten, I dont know about Qld thoughQuote:
Originally posted by crump
Oh yeah, dont want to hear any racisty type stuff, just a solution,also be interested in the fact if I have broken the law by threatening someone .
Well we have a silent number, and we come up as private. However, we don't have telemarketers ringing us at all. It's well worth the $2 a month https://www.aulro.com/afvb/
disco95 wrote:Quote:
Originally posted by crump
Oh yeah, dont want to hear any racisty type stuff.
I used to work on a farm in QLD (pineapples), always had problems with crows. We found if you shoot a couple and hang 'em around the crops the others stay away............works for mormons and Jehovas Witness that used to knock on our door. Twisted Evil
but wouldn't they stink after awhile Shocked Shocked Wink
Jehovas Witness that is
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When in doubt read the instructions.
Trev.