Comments on: LLPOF

By: Kristen @ Motherese

Kristen @ Motherese — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:46:55 +0000

In my neck of the woods, caller ID now comes standard with the basic phone plan. It has changed my life for the better! I almost never get suckered into talking to telemarketers – and have even been known to let some friends’ and family members’ calls go directly to voice mail. Very empowering, I tell you.

By: jennifer

jennifer — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:44:42 +0000

Love the mental exercise idea. I never considered the self-improvement angle of annoying, unwanted phone calls – but that is genius!

By: penrise

penrise — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:30:30 +0000

yes, we get many calls asking for Mrs. Hunsberger. My reply is either that my mother-in-law doesn’t live here, or “she’s dead,” depending on how grumpy a mood I’m in.

IU do remember John Knight telling me that he’d try to find a way to work in whatever it was they were selling into his rejection in some sort of a mental exercise… “can you give to the leukemia society?” “Sorry, my white blood cell count is too low to write a check right now…” that kind of thing.

He was clever enough and quick enough to get those responses out. me, not so much!

By: jennifer

jennifer — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:18:05 +0000

Brilliant!

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:35:20 +0000

The other day I used “could I have the correct spelling of your name and company name, for the police report?” Worked pretty well.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:57:02 +0000

My husband actually enjoys talking to the telemarketers, can you believe THAT? Therefore, I just pass the phone his way and commence with the chuckling as he listens to their spiel and lets them down easy, ending with a very chipper “Good Bye” with a smile.

I know, it’s totally bizarre. Sorry, but I have no words of wisdom for you. (Wait, you could pick up the phone and just scream into it at the top of your lungs like my mom used to do when she was younger. Heh.)

By: jennifer

jennifer — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:15:24 +0000

We don’t have windows…counting to 130…balloon pops….an anti-telemarketer script…all of these are going in my file folder marked FFWF. Fighting Fire with Fire. Happy for the inspiration, thank you!
And that windshield note is something I’ve seen on other blogs. In those cases, the authors were encouraging people to print them out and stick them on cars that annoyed them. Uncivil.

By: terry

terry — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:29:44 +0000

I can’t believe she actually said that to you. I always try and let them down gently. I don’t know why. But if someone said that to me I would be so mad.

Recently i parked to close to another car and I got a note on my windshiled telling me that I was a bad, bad person. It stung. I didn’t do it on purpose. At least you were trying to be nice. ANd to think…..she has your phone number.

By: shawne

shawne — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:23:51 +0000

love the jerry seinfeld method, like above: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hllDWSbuDsQ

and I think next time there’s an unavailable call, I’ll let young Jake answer & show the telemarketer how he can count to 130 (our enthusiasm for this skill is wearing off)…if they’re still on the line – I’ll listen to them – for about 2 minutes and 10 seconds!

By: MomKat

MomKat — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:44:39 +0000

Before the no-call list, my husband’s favorite ploy was to be unfailingly cheerful and reply to people selling anything, “We don’t need that, no matter what it was.” If they were selling new windows, for instance, he once said, “We don’t have any windows.” The caller said, “Oh, OK.”