Anti-Telemarketer Counter-Script.

1. MrPumpernickel
   October 15th, 2006 at 12:57 pm

   Cute idea, though having worked over four years in the telemarketing business, frequently calling youth (who are the ones most exposed to this script, which after all is quite old and pretty well known around the net) I have never come across anyone using it. Quaint if anything.

   Though, I would personally love to talk to someone trying something like this. I would laugh and laugh and laugh, and then laugh some more.

2. sam
   October 16th, 2006 at 7:19 pm

   i just hang up on them. telemarketers are lame and should get a real job.

3. Stuart
   October 17th, 2006 at 8:36 am

   I'm sure he appreciates your ripping off the thing lock, stock, and barrel.

   How about a piece of it and a link so people will have to go to his site to read it all?

4. ted
   October 17th, 2006 at 10:33 am

   Sometimes, I wonder what sam considers reality, or what doesn't suck.

   People don't use this script because they don't have the time to waste proving a point to someone they'll probably never hear from again. Say "thanks", hang up and move on with your life.

   Cute idea, though.

5. takio
   October 17th, 2006 at 10:33 am

   i much prefer the Henry Rollins approach to telemarketers: briefly ask general stuff about them, then start applying obvious pick-up lines and techniques, heavy breathing included. Totally ignoring their questions and being pushy about it keeps you on the line and in control, which is hou you want to have it if you want to enjoy it. Never tried it myself, not much telemarketing action in my country, but i imagine it must be as funny as effective! And if the guy/girl goes for it, what the hell, just give bogus data...

6. Alex
   October 17th, 2006 at 12:25 pm

   Stuart, the post actually has a link to Martijn Engelbregt's webpage. See if you can find it (it's near the top).

7. floyd landis
   October 17th, 2006 at 2:31 pm

   If I simply ask the telemarketer what they are wearing, they hang up on me.

8. Aleki
   October 20th, 2006 at 11:54 pm

   My dad always asked them to hold on just a moment and he'd love to answer their questions. Then he'd just leave the phone sitting there until they hung up.

9. intelnm
   April 5th, 2007 at 7:45 am

   i usually get this calls at dinner time and would ask them for there name and number that i can call them back. they usually say that do that and hang up or ask why.

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