MAIZEandBLUE09
Well-Known, and Feared, Member
I go with just saying yes to everything until they hang up on me. Say nothing other than yes.
Holy shit. Your name really is Roy Munson?!!My brother apparently has shitty credit.
So I get calls that start with.
them: "Hello, I'm so and so from whatever, I'm looking for Tim Munson"
me: "hey, you're in luck, he's here, let me go get him"
Then I put the phone on mute and set it down.
If I'm in a mood to be an asshole I'll fuck with them some more, but usually I just wait until they hang up.
i had some assholes call me constantly trying to get in touch with my deadbeat next door neighbor years ago. "dont you know your neighbor?" "cant you give them a message to call us?" and then started talking shit to me like i was the one who owed them money. unbelievable.
Had one do the same thing to me for a family member. I told em I would, and that my fee was $40 per minute from the time I leave my house to do their job and I had to drive to TN from WV to tell him.... click, never called back.
Anybody else do this? I keep getting calls from some "Resort" selling me a great vacation for great price. I usually play them for a long as I can just to fuck up their talk time. I've twice taken them all the way through their up sale, taking every option offered. I go get my credit card and start reading the number to them, only to hang up before the last digit.
I've committed suicide while talking to them. I've killed babies. Tortured animals. All with the help of sound affects.
Today, I tried something different.
Telemarketer : Hi, this is Rebecca, who am I speaking with?
Me: Hi Rebecca, what are you wearing?
Rabecca: What does that have to do with this?
Me: I'm Masturbating and am trying to build a picture of you.
Me: Rebecca?
She apparently was not interested in talking me through a self administered handy.
I never answer them.
These days they all seem to use local numbers so that you'll think it's not a telemarketer. Well the thing is my work pays for my phone and I've had the same phone number for 15 years even though I don't live in that area anymore. Anyone I know from that area shows up and they are already programmed in there, so any time I see the 408 area code, I know it's a telemarketer.
Had some calls like that a while back. Evidently, an ex-GF of mine had bought a computer (or something expensive) and used my name as some kind of reference. I never really understood how that worked... She never finished paying for it, and then they tracked me down and started calling me relentlessly. Simply could not convince them that I had no current relationship with this wench, didn't know where she lived, and couldn't answer for why she had used me as a reference.
I finally got one guy to understand this logic: "look, she's not a trustworthy individual, she didn't pay for the merch...you think she would give you a LEGIT reference, to someone who could track her down for you? She deliberately used someone NOT close to her, so you wouldn't be able to find her."