Solicitors and uninvited house "visitors"

[ZeSpectre]

I have a lifelong friend who has a well earned reputation as a prankster. He was visiting me one time when two female "God squad" types show up and start trying to talk my ear off. All of a sudden he comes running from the living room saying "Holy COW, my tarantulas got loose, did you see them out here? Oh CRAP, they could be ANYWHERE!

The two young ladies left VERY quickly

 

[michaelbane]

I don't get a lot of solicitors, but when I do, I just tell them I'm not interested and that they should leave. If they're religious I'll commend them for their good faith efforts and wish them the best.

If it's for a pollitical candidate that I don't support. I tell the person bluntly why I'm voting for the other candidate.

The only suspicious guy I ever had was someone claiming to be from a competing phone company (we have utility choice here). He wanted to "register" me for a "discount", and to do that he had to see my phone bill. Right away, I knew something was fishy. I told him to his face that he was a scam artist and threatened to call the cops if he didn't leave my front steps immediately.

 

[Deanimator]

For those unsolicited phone calls that always seem to occur during dinner or your favorite TV show simply tell the telemarketer to hold for a moment please, set the phone down and go back to your dinner etc. They usually work for commision and making them waste time "holding" for you is a bit of pay back.

At work we get a bunch of telemarketing calls for investments. Some of them are polite; some are rude and hang up when you decline; some won't take no for an answer.

Last week we got one of the "won't take no for an answer" types. I told him the boss was on another line and sat the phone down in front of my computer speakers. He must not like the Dennis Praeger show, 'cause he hung up...

 

[p35]

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[cassandrasdaddy]

want some fun? try this

"hello? hello! can you hear me? hello?" a few choruses of this drive the phone soliciters nuts

 

[v8stang289]

telemarketers

Speaking of telemarketers, my dad is the parts manager at a toyota dealership, and he always gets calls from people trying to sell the company new products. Usually he tells them "you've got five seconds to sell so start talkin" and then slams the phone down. Well the telemarketers have gotten wise to this and try to disguise there motives. He had one call a couple of weeks ago on a perticularly stressful day, and the guy told him he had a 58 chevrolet carburetor that he needed to get rebuilt. First of all, its a toyota dealership, so his claim made no sense. But anyway, my dad recognized his voice and went along with it and said "I'll tell you what to do. Get down on your knees and pray, just pray!! and God will fix that carburetor." then he slammed the phone down.

(keep in mind my dad is not a really religious person, he was just messin with the guy)

 

[Justin]

This one's gone off topic.