Blowing hot and cold ...cold calls and how to deal with them.

If you have "Do not Disturb Registry" in your country, you can register with them and you will not be getting any such calls after that. In general sales persons are polite, but they are also human's and can behave improperly sometimes.

I always tell the caller I am not home.

I do get them from time to time....I tell them to get a real job. Those telemarketer jobs are hard and it's an aweful way to try to make a living. I do also sometimes say...I'm busy...give me your number and I'll call you back. Usually you don't hear from them again.

hi carpediem long time no see. anyway the first several times I try to be polite but insist I am not interested in the product but the last time AT And T called with a package deal I could not afford and had already said no to to four other people.this time she refused to hear I am not interested so I started to go "si no babla anglaise,non non me no unstan, Au revoir, sayonara" and by then she slammed down the receiver in my ear. lol I had not had such fun for ages. Now if I get these I start at once "no habla anglaise, non non sayonara au revoir goo bye". I never even get to the anglasie before the person hangs up on me. I am now on the do not call list so get few of these calls anymore.I once got rid of a male sales person by going "me only six want dada? me not go byebye you wan go bye bye no no dada mama want mama ?"and by now the irate caller yells "get your mother here" and I then let rip"how dare you yell at my little girl?" that completely unglues them and they just hang up and leave. wow.So I had become a little creative.

I understand your problem exactly and have had the same. Just recently I gave my information to one company for a health insurance quote and don't you know that for several days after I started receiving over twenty calls a day for about a week from other companies soliciting their services. They never want to get off the phone even after you have told them you are not interested. They always have one more thing to say or they have just one more question to ask. They are training these phone salesmen better and better all the time on how to get you to not hang up and this is exactly what I have found to stop them. It seems the only way to get them to shut up is to hang up on them and this is what I do now. I know it is rude but look at the rudeness they are giving me. I am not kidding, I got almost 30 to 50 calls a day for about 4 days from requesting that one quote. These companies share your information and make it a nightmare for you.

I haven't received any calls like that, at least not yet. Maybe you gave your number to some agency that's why you're receiving calls like that. Just ignore them and do what's important.

Those kinds of calls drive me nuts lol. I'm on the 'don't call' list, but lots of times they get through anyways. What I do is either quietly hang up, or say 'Oh my gosh!' then drop the phone on the desk (like I'm hurrying away). A few minutes later I go back and hang it up. I figure, it's their dime, and if they're going to be SO rude, then fair is fair. Persistence is one thing...a dedicated pain in the keester calls for different tactics lol. One thing I've learned is that if you stay on the line, it just makes them think you're interested. If repeated 'I'm not interested' doesn't penetrate their brain, then it's fair game to 'leave them hanging' (so to speak.) I'm a polite person, but when a telemarketer just doesn't get it, it's fair to quietly hang up, or leave the phone off the hook for a minute until they DO hang up. IE: they waste my time, I waste their dime haha.

When I get one of these calls, I interrupt and say "excuse me, I am not interested". If they continue, I interrupt one more time and say "excuse me, I told you I am not interested" then, I hang up. Most of these people are polite; telemarketing companies rarely hire people who are not. Perhaps this person was just having a bad day and took it out on you since you were available.

The salespeople who call our home are always polite, even when I am not. Our phone is on the "Do not call" list, but we still get calls. The ones that annoy me most are the prerecorded ones, because it gives me no chance to remind them that we are on the "do not call" list. I wish that I could get through to whomever it is who keeps calling for a man I had not ever heard of. I've told a h alkf dozen different people from the same office that I do not know the man, he does not now live, nor has he ever lived here, but they keep calling back after they promise not to bother me again.

i just tell them not interested and good bye, hang up really fast lol. I kno its rude but i cant do anything for them. Or i say wrong number.