Phone call at 7pm last night.
Caller: Hello, is this Mrs Jones?
Jezzy: Erm, no. I think you have the wrong number.
Caller: Can you tell me your name, please?
Jezzy: Who is this?
Caller: This is xyz from xyz company. We have a wonderful offer for
you because we have been informed of your excellent credit rating. Is
this correct?
*beat*
Jezzy: Hang on, you just asked me who I was. How do you know anything
about my credit rating if you don't know who I am?
Caller: Pardon me, ma'am?
Jezzy: Who told you about my credit rating?
Caller: Yes, ma'am, we were told you have an excellent credit rating.
Jezzy: Yes, but who am I?
*beat*
Caller: Excuse me?
Jezzy: Um, it's okay don't worry, I'm just in the middle of cooking
dinner. Sorry, not interested.
[hangs up]
wtf?
9 comments:
GOT 'EM!
YEAAAAAAH!
Call Display is my best friend.
What bothers me is on the days where I decide to work from home - I write better in silence - they call during the day and refuse to accept that I'm working.
Worse, sometimes they call repeatedly if I don't pick up. I need a revenge plan.
Personally I prefer the good old,
"oh Great, can you hold on a minute, I've got to turn off the stove?..." put the phone down and go about your business for a day or two, then simply hang it up.
OR the piece d'resistance for handling telemarketers. It go's like this,..
Yeah this is Baxter,..damn it Charlie don't roll the body over yet,..who is this?
(As soon as they start to say anything you then say), "man, look at the size of that hole in the son of a bitch, must have been a bazooka in the chest,...sorry I got distracted, you are who?"
Wait a second then say as an aside "you got the trace Bob? Roll a car on it, I want this bastard in here now....Ah sir we are having a problem with our line here could you please hold on another minute for me?"
Pretty much guaranteed to be sure they hang up, and take you off the list,...forever.
Mr. Guinness
I got a little vial in an envelope on my door the other week. It said it was a survey of the water in my area and could I please provide a sample so that they could test it blah blah blah. Being the conscientious citizen that I am, I promptly filled the vial, waited for morning to put it out b/c I didn't want it to freeze overnight. A few days later, I got a call from a company wanting to sell me a water softener and filtration system.
Crafty MF'ers, aren't they???
mobile phones are no protection from telemarketers. I used to regularly get telemarketers call my mobile in Aus. I liked to keep them on the line for ages, because at least it would cost them.
Well, now I know why sometimes I get a message on my answering machine that says, Mr. whatever, please call this number...and it's not me they are requesting. It usually says something like, this is not a sales call! too. And now I know what to say if they actually REACH me when I'm at home, too ;) Good job.
No one can ever pronounce my last name. If you don't KNOW me, don't call and pretend to.
Bastids.
I love getting telemarketers when I'm babysitting my nephews. I give the phone to the four year old and let him 'conversate' with the dolts on the other end.
Fun for the whole family.
A couple of years ago we were getting 2 or 3 of these jerks calling each night. We were pushed over the edge when in the middle of one Telewanker conversation, I switched call waiting to the other line to take a call from... you guessed it... another Telewanker.
Oh how I wished there was some way to hook those two lines togther at that moment...
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