Telemarketers

[Realist]

This week I have received several calls from Indian Telemarketers calling all for OPTUS. :swear:

Indian Women call me and I say "This is the second call from Optus in 2 days", they reply "yes sir, but this is the first call from me"



DO NOT USE OPTUS

I did use them, the reception is pathetic, it cuts out in North Sydney sometimes which is where their office is.

OPTUS are scum, they are relocating their staff to North Ryde soon, not providing enough carparks and just shetting on their staff.

Their offers are as good as Vodafone, sure, cause they copy Vodafone!


Any tips for getting rid of telemarketers? They have all been Indian Women.

I was going to chat to one, ask her what she was wearing, what she likes in the bedroom etc. lead her on for a while.

 

[Realist]

I've probably broken half the board rules in posting the above, if so, sorry.

I'm mighty pessed off with this though.

Are the new telemarketer rules gonna be able to stop this though? the calls are not made from Australia, and I once did have dealing with Optus.

:swear:

 

[phoenixrising]

"Challow" is the word to use, it got rid of so many hawkers while i was in India 6 yrs ago.
When said softly it means are we finished, with increasing volume gets more serious, yelled means ......of

 

[Happy]

DO NOT CALL list is going to cost $22 million, and they cry is pricey.

Why don’t they make DO CALL Directory, from what I understand there would not be as many entries.

This new phenomenon of opting out gets on my nerves, but this is part of new era.

 

[professor_frink]

It's been years since I've been bothered by a telemarketer. Answering machines are the greatest invention. Ever. Everyone I know just starts talking to the answering machine knowing I'll pick up when I know who it is. Works a treat.

 

[yogi-in-oz]

Hi folks,

..... and here's annother very annoying aspect
about telemarketers, who are too tight to pay
for their own calls.

They will call your mobile number and hang up,
so your phone says, you missed a call ...

..... that's fine, but if you just return the call,
without checking the number first, you may well
find you are talking to a high-priced recording in
Melbourne or some other far-flung extremity of
the world .....

happy days

yogi

 

[bullmarket]

If you have caller ID and you get a call from an 'undisclosed' number it's probably a good chance that it's a telemarketer..........so if you greet the caller with............."salty balls massage parlour..!!!"....you'll probably find you get rid of most of the telemarketers pretty quickly.... ....the downside is you might get a call from a friend who has a silent number and then you'll have some explaining to do :

Another option could be to greet the call talking in gobbildy-goop making it sound like you are speaking Chinese and don't understand English....

cheers

bullmarket

 

[mit]

One thing we have noticed is that a lot of the telemarketers phones dial before they have finished the last call. So if I answer and hear silence for more than a couple of seconds we now hang up.

As for "challow" I don't even bother anymore, I just say not interested and hang up. You can hear them still talking as the phone is going down.

re- Optus. I have recently got a mobile phone through them and I can also say I am not too happy with their service, Telstra was far better. We just got an overdue bill notice for a bill we never received.

MIT

 

[3 veiws of a secret]

If a telemarketeer rings either you say your in market research or SWITCHBOARD!!!! the 3rd option involves writing a letter to geee forget the title of the organisation.....but they de-list you from these lists.
As for the cash 'n' curry girls from Bombay,well.......now I know why we want to sell them uranium nuggets,I just happen to be with Optus........funnily enough one girl asked for the "master of the house"!!!!!! so I told her "hold on ,I'll go and get my 8 year old daughter!"

 

[The Mint Man]

This is how I get them to stop.
I have fun with them.
for instance:
the last call I got from india the guy was trying to sell me a camera or a phone (cant remember, wasnt paying attension really). anyway,
I picked up the phone and got that long pause at the start which instantly told me that this was another telemarketer.
He finally came through and said 'hello' I replied in a weird sort of timid scared guy voice (which I maintain throughout the whole conversation) 'hello'. he started his sales pitch by asking me 'are you enjoying your life today Mr' to which I replied 'no' (I actually heared him laugh at this point).
He went on to tell me about his you buet camera which comes with this and that and how I could also take a holiday aswell on them!. I asked ' where are these holidays'? he started off with local areas including the central coast which is where I live. I said 'oh, what was that one'? he replied 'the central coast sir', I then paused for about 5 seconds... and said 'NO,... I live there, why the hell would I want to go there, where else can I go'. He rambled off about 15 other Australian destinations which I told him I wasnt pleased with as I have been everywhere. He said 'dont worry sir we have overseas destinations' then I asked 'does that mean I have to fly on a plane'? 'yes' he replied with excitement 'you can go to thai...' I cut him off at that point screaming ' NO, NO NO I cant go on a plane it will crash and Im scared'. At this point the telemarketer didnt know what to say besides 'well sir you could just take advantage of our camera offer'... 'No' I said 'Im ugly... and Im scared of cameras' there was a pause 'loooo..loo..look' i stutterd ' Im a.. I have to go this is too much for me bye'

Anyway that was at least a couple of months ago and still no calls from them. There probably too scared to call me. Considering in previous calls I have told them that the owner of the house was not home, that I was not related to them and I had infact killed them.

Im actually considering getting a recording devise so I can record these conversations so I can show my mates. Its a crack up.

 

[Happy]

And imagine that they are only trying to do their job, which they probably hate too, especially shift that has to call Australia.

 

[visual]

I actually had someone ring asking for the male breadwinner,asked them to repeat in case I`d missheard,but no,he said that!
Informed him that this was a household of lesbians,you honestly could hear him blanch,apparently ours wasnt the type of family he was after,my son still hasnt forgiven me,.

 

[The Mint Man]

And imagine that they are only trying to do their job, which they probably hate too, especially shift that has to call Australia

Ive heared the story before. bla blah.
like I said ...they get the point and stop ringing.
On the other hand if you politly say 'I'm not interested' or 'Dont call me' the very next day (or even that day), bet your left nut, they will be calling again.
before I started doing this I was getting up to 15-20 calls at least a day! why? I dont know but now we hardly get any and I havnt had to waist my time trying to find this 'dont call this number list' or whatever it is and adding my name to it. Why should I have to anyway?
Also what I do isnt racist, harrasing them, abusing them etc or anything like that, which Im sure as hell they get from other people. Unfortunatly, in the job they have, it comes with the teritory.

I mean if you took a job at your local sewage plant then you would expect to deal with **** yes?

 

[Happy]

One other observation, if it was so unsuccessful, and this type of cold calling did not raise any revenue their activity would probably be culled and practice would stop.

So obviously somebody does take up their offers, as all types of advertising are revenue translated.

If certain type of advertising doesn’t generate sales is discontinued.

So lets just spare a thought for ones that support the system and lets blame them.

 

[The Mint Man]

I agree.
I actually know of people that love it, they take up holidays etc....
Mind you their credit cards are always maxed out

 

[Julia]

A short time ago ABC Radio did a programme where one of their journalists got a job as a call centre telemarketer for a well known charity. He said most people were reasonably polite when they knew he was from that particular organisation. Most people made excuses not to donate, but he said the biggest givers were elderly people who were giving out of their pensions.

He was only doing the job for the sake of making the programme but he commented that there were a few experienced telemarketers at that call centre who were making big bucks. They just apparently had the patter off well and people consistently gave to them. They were paid with a base rate plus bonuses.

Julia

 

[Realist]

Most charities infuriate me!! :swear:

It is a business that funds telemarketers, and people that come up to you in the mall and ask for money. It encourages begging!!

I used to sell PC's and charities would call me up, ask for the highest spec multimedia PC for their stiaff so they can watch movies and what not on their trips to the poorer countries, I used to deliver them to flash hotels that these people stayed in.

It made me sick, how charity money was wasted on these morons and their flash hotels and ultra expensive laptops! They thought they were doing a good thing, they weren't they were spending our money on themselves and not on the people it was intended for.

I do not give to charities now, and never will again. I despise most of them.

If I was a giving person (and I aint at the moment) I'd donate time or money directly to the needy, not to the dipsh*ts that earn a good salary telemarketing me!!

 

[Realist]

the biggest givers were elderly people who were giving out of their pensions.

Yep, old people sure are dumb! :evilburn:

 

[Smurf1976]

I wouldn't mind these calls so much if they were employing AUSTRALIANS and had their call centres based IN AUSTRALIA. At least that way it would be providing paid work for someone in this country. But I've had more than enough of having meals etc interrupted by telemarketers calling from overseas.

The absolutely worst ones though are those recorded messages that just burst out as soon as you answer the phone. Especially the ones from AFL teams. As if such an extraordinarily expensive form of entertainment which receives more sponsorship than most other sports combined needs my money...

It's never been more than a trivial nuisance to me though so I'm not in any hurry to add my name to a "do not call" list.

 

[MalteseBull]

I actually like playing with telemarkets...


start asking them a series of questions and there anwsers are on the paper that's in front of them