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- gamabunta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Seinfeld did it best:
"I'm sorry, I'm a little tied up now. Give me your home number and I'll call you back later... Oh, you don't like being called at home? Well, now you know how I feel. [hangs up]" - briansalo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@ryland:
That's something I think I'll use from now on, thanks :D - znelson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1just hang up and get on with your life
- Ryland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you want a weapon, hanging up is a good one. Interrupting them and saying "Put me on your do-no-call list" is a better one. If you're really bent on ***** with them, say, "Can you hang on just a second?" and then put the phone down without hanging up, and go play a video game or something until *they* hang up. That's about as much effort as I can EVER see putting into a telemarketer; this counter script seems like a huge waste of time. (Since I ditched land lines a few years ago and use only a cellphone anymore, my telemarketer calls have dwindled to near-zero, and the very few I have gotten consisted of me saying, "You know this is a cellphone, right?" To which they immediately respond, "Oh, sorry," and hang up, since making telemarketing calls to a cellphone is illegal.)
- MrZop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Its not that hard to say.
"I'm not interested sorry. Have a Nice Day, Goodbye."
Its all about taking control of the conversation. Don't hesitate interupting them. - DNordbak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0P.S. the original digg can be found here:
http://www.digg.com/links/Anti-telemarketing_counterscript - DNordbak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0how about you warn me the next time before you have me open up a PDF?
not to mention this is a dupe from here:
http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Eegbg/counterscript.html
(posted 8/20/05)
and best of all, it doesn't even require you to open up a PDF to view it! - .Steven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I just read them a section of the Australian Privacy Act, ask them for what details they have on me, and then tell them about the ADMA, as ask them to put me on a Do Not Disturb list... And I have never received a call since.. I kinda miss them :)
- gronne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Znelson said it.
- hoowahman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hello people this is a joke obviously, dont actually try this unless you have time to waste.
- ross., on 10/12/2007, -0/+0To all those complaining about the PDF's, for frickin christ sake update your computers...it's not 1995 anymore...who can't open PDF's!?!?
- Blackthorne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There's a national do not call list somewhere on the web that's supposed to be federally enforced. If you want to avoid telemarketers, make sure you're on that list.
- TheDecn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ever since I put my landline number on the national do-not-call list, the only "telemarketing" calls I get are from charities or people doing surveys, and very rarely at that. Apparently that list works (at least in my case).
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Responding with "I'm sorry, I'm busy hacking my family to pieces right now and it's hard to get them to stand still while I'm holding this knife in one hand and the phone in the other." usually ends the conversation with ZERO callbacks.
- PAlacrosse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yayy for seinfeld, he did do it the best, quick and to the point
- noamsml, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0heh, i'm the only one for whome PDFs open quickly and efficiently (yay for evince, double yay for GNOME 2.12)
- dvishcharm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0its much easier to annouce to every one in the room u are in that the debate e(that does not exsist) should b determined by the telemarketer (thus wasting every one's time) (and being very fun at same time) u have to b good on the spot but if done correctly the tele marketer will have no responce and loose track of the point of the call (thus sticking it to the tele marketers)
- djoek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0uhm, old news. Callcenters now actually use this and employ counter-coutermeasures
- fli7e, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think this was awesome. There are better ways, of course, but these questions could be modded to things like:
"Do you ever touch yourself in private places when the person you are calling sounds attractive?"
"If you knew to an absolute moral certainty that you could capture and consume a live infant without being caught, how many do you suppose you could eat in a weekend?" (credit: 5ives)
+Digg. - bloggerboxer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0what? everybody still uses adobe reader? Heard something about the spyware on the latest version? Foxit all the way! it's thousand times faster than adobe reader....
- DiddyWolf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What is the point in collecting that information? what posible use could this have?
- Decus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0madmax22e, something must be wrong with your setup, firefox + pdf's work fine
- gibbo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I tried this last night. Worked great and provided cruel amusement for about 10 minutes. It was the girl's first day on the job too.
- rileyjt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Of course, while not nearly as entertaining, simply saying "Please put me on your do not call list" is much more effective and a heck of a lot faster!
- zelig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Seinfeld did it best:
"I'm sorry, I'm a little tied up now. Give me your home number and I'll call you back later... Oh, you don't like being called at home? Well, now you know how I feel. [hangs up]"
This doesn't work because then they ask you "what's the most convenient time to call you back?"
And you say "2014" - Scott_T, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Targetalert, a plugin for Firefox that lets you know what you're about to click on with an icon
http://www.bolinfest.com/targetalert/ - Thurloat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wow i always stay on the line and havea little conversiontion with them, i know they ned a break from their day :)
- SVPirate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have a weapon. It's called a fax tone ;o)
Just say 'No thanks' and put the phone down. I have too little time on this planet to stand talking to these people who are employed by jerks to sell people stuff they don't need.
Oh and don't take it out on the representatives - it's not their fault.
AND yeh warn about direct links to non-web stuff. That's almost as bad as not asking before attaching a file to an e-mail. - DannyB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I bought this book a while back called "Fun with Phone Solicitors". It has some pretty funny ideas to mess with telemarketers.
- TomClements, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0USA - National Do Not Call List:
https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx - Punisher2K, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Here is your script:
"What is the name of your company?"
"Take my number off your list"
If they call back you can sue them. It ain't hard.
Also get the unknown caller ID block from your phone company. It stops autodialers cold. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've always broken that imbalance by simply hanging up as soon I know it's a telemarketer...which is immediately. People who wait to hear what a telemarketer has to say are idiots.
- ebob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is pointless. If you live in the United States, just sign up for the National Do Not Call List. I did as soon as it was available. Within a few months I went from getting a dozen calls a day to almost none. When an errant telemarketer does call, I ask for information on their company and inform them that I am on the list and that if they call again, I will report them. Actually I could report them immediately, but I only get two or three of these calls a year now.
- Brutis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0why would i want to do this, then mail my contact info to the netherlands, this is a nice scam.
- magstheaxe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'll tell you what works even better than the National Do Not Call List. If you're getting a call from anyone trying to sell you something (especially a credit card offer), just tell them, "I'd love to take your offer, but I just completed filing for bankruptcy." You'll be left in peace and quiet for the rest of your life.
- Blackthorne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Adobe Acrobat also spawns a process called wisptis.exe, which leaks GDI objects more and more until it eventually locks your computer up. Of course, when you close Adobe Acrobat, wisptis.exe continues to run in the background.
- vigil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Remember seeing this one a few years ago...guess old news is still good news?
- Mongoose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0old.
- jmccorm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Do your part to help keep FRESH stories on the Digg homepage!
1. Select the GREEN [Problem?] box at the top.
2. Seledt [Duplicate Story]. Or [Old news].
Delight in that you're helping to keep room for fresh and interesting stories on the Digg homepage. - Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's terrible to be rude to telemarketers... they're just trying to make an income and live. How would *you* feel if someone yelled at you and degraded you... just because you were trying to do your job.
I'm not a telemarketer, but a good friend of mine has been and I hated when she got upset. - blubolt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It would be fun just to mess with them. Good form!!
- almostmanda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Zipp, tell your friend to toughen up or get a real job.
- nicepants, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0BAD FORM! When you're linking to a PDF....SAY SO!
- M3ntok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I did telemarketing for a little while. Well, it was really teleMARKETING, since we didn't sell anything. But it did involve phoning people during their dinner to make them do surveys. Yay.
I found that some people could be dicks. If someone just hung up, that was fine. Some people would just start screaming into their phone immediately, which wasn't so cool. Occasionally you'd get the odd person who'd actually mess with you, and do a good job at it. I always liked those calls, at least they were being creative and it was usually fun to try and spar with them.
If you don't like telemarketers, your best bet is just to say "Please put me on your do not call list", or "Please remove me from your call list". Where I worked, if you simply said "don't call here anymore" or any other similar variation, it didn't count. You had to mention the list specifically.'
Besides, most of the people who are telemarketers are either high school/college kids working for beer money, other old people with nothing else to do all day. So whatever you say to them, they probably don't give a ***** at the end of the day. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Zipp, whats her number?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0And I use Firefox too!
- snapya, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0omg
- mrmatchgame, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Cactus!!!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"who can't open PDF's!?!?"
its not that people cant open them, its that PDF is lame file format. - Sh|fty, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0pdf rock, they are so fast to open and you cant copy and paste from them.
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