Funny telemarketer call & response by my hubby

[Jenny]

So while I was taking Josh to school this morning, Scott, who is home *sick* today, got a phone call. Picture this:

*ring**ring*

Scott: Hello? (sounding sick in case it were work)

Nothing.

Scott: Hello?

Nothing. Starting to hang up.

REALLY southern female voice: Hello?

Scott: Yes, hello.

Lady: Hello Mr. Rarden (totally mispronouncing it.) I see here you are a preferred customer in good standing with the credit card company.

Scott: We don't have a credit card. (Actually, we do, but the account is closed and we are working to pay it off. lol)

Lady: Oh? Hmmm. Well then, you must have a checkcard with either a Visa or Mastercard logo on it then, right? Which is it?

Scott: (hesitantly) Visa.

Lady: Oh yes, that's good then!

Scott: Ok...

Lady: Well, let's see. You are being entered into our sweepstakes. Let me ask you a few simple questions.

Scott (who really wasn't interested but found the whole conversation amusing so wanted to keep talking at this point): Ok...

Lady: Now, out of the following, which is your family most interested in? Business, Computers, Cooking, Outdoors, Sports, Technology (on and on a whole list, Scott said).

Scott (in a totally deadpan voice that he is extremely good at): None of the above.

Lady: Excuse me?

Scott (Same voice): None of the above.

Lady: Your family doesn't read?

Scott (same voice): No.

Lady: Oh. Good luck in our sweepstakes. *click*


hahahahahaha

For some reason it struck me as really funny. :D

[welfareloser]

it is kinda kickin the gimp, but i do have to mess with telemarketers from time to time... dumb ppl who get stumped when the conversation deviates from the script...

[whitak24]

that is pretty funny. "we don't read"

i usually just hang up on the telemarketers as soon as i hear what they want....but sometimes they are just so nice they end up suckering me in for their whole pitch and then i feel sad telling them no (not that feeling sad prevents me from doing it :heh: )

[topane]

I once received a phone call from a telemarketer immediately after getting a couple of cavities filled. My face was numb and I sounded like that Bill Cosby bit (my-be fa-bees i-bis on the-ba flo-bor). The guy on the other end couldn't understand a thing I was saying.

[brainsmile]

does anyone else get that where the phone rings... you pick up and then... NOTHING. I mean sometimes I've waited for a min or two. But still nothing.

What great advertising. Maybe they're just trying to find out if anyone picks up so that they can sell your #.

[sho.gun]

Originally posted by brainsmile
does anyone else get that where the phone rings... you pick up and then... NOTHING. I mean sometimes I've waited for a min or two. But still nothing.

What great advertising. Maybe they're just trying to find out if anyone picks up so that they can sell your #.

I think what they do is they have a machine that calls like 5 numbers at a time and sees which one picks up, if the person connected to one that picked up before you, you're dumped. But of course that's just a sho.gun theory.

Once LA Times called to sell me newspapers, I told them I'd buy it if they buy my old 48x CD-Rom drive in the garage.

[Jenny]

Originally posted by sho.gun
Once LA Times called to sell me newspapers, I told them I'd buy it if they buy my old 48x CD-Rom drive in the garage.


:heh: That's funny!


And yeah, I think you're right about why that happens, sg... :)

[whitak24]

Originally posted by sho.gun
I think what they do is they have a machine that calls like 5 numbers at a time and sees which one picks up, if the person connected to one that picked up before you, you're dumped. But of course that's just a sho.gun theory.
basically, you have a whole bunch of phone lines, and a much smaller number of operators.

the computer constantly dials out phone numbers. once one line picks up (and the computer determines whether not not it is an answering machine that picked up), the computer looks for an open operator and transfers the call there.

unfortunately, sometimes, there isn't an operator immediately available. so you keep saying "hello" while the computer tries to find an open person.

or, as i do, you hang up and go on with your day.

[jujubees]

Originally posted by whitak24
the computer constantly dials out phone numbers. once one line picks up (and the computer determines whether not not it is an answering machine that picked up), the computer looks for an open operator and transfers the call there.I must have a 007-caliber answering machine -- or some really stupid telemarketers :dodgy: -- because I keep getting messages that are recordings ... "Someone will be available to assist you in just a moment. We appreciate your time, blah blah blah ... "

[Jenny]

I hate when bill collecters call and it is the recorded voice, "Please hold. This is an important call from so and so. An operator will be with you as soon as possible." I ALWAYS hang up. Screw that! If they want to talk to me, they can damn well call me, rather than having the computer do it. lol

[welfareloser]

Originally posted by topane
signature...

oh, now you done did it.

[topane]

Originally posted by welfareloser


oh, now you done did it. :P

[sho.gun]

Whoa, I just got the same exact call. They asked for Visa, mastercard, etc., I have visa but I said I didn't have any of those because I'm not even 18... even though I am.

such a liar I am... :( Oh, then she didn't even say thank you, goodbye, or anything, just hung up...

[GraingerGuy]

Originally posted by DarkFury
Uh oh.. it's gonna be on now. :hihi:

/me pulls up a chair to watch...

*hands DF some popcorn*

heh....this is going to be good....:)

[styleee]

my parents have a new way of dealing w/ telemarketers at dinner....

if they see 'unavailable' on the caller id, they just pick up the receiver and hang it up. CLICK! they got so sick of listening to the phone ring that now they just hang up on everyone.

and i guess if its someone who just happened to have thier number blocked, well, they will call back again.

:)

[molecularfire]

I figure that if they wanna talk so much, let them (at least I did when I had a land line). I pick up the phone and if it's a telemarketer and she sounds cute, I'll talk to her a bit. If it's a he, and/or doesn't sound cute I just put the phone down and let them talk. I'll come by in about 15 minutes later (or if I hear that system busy sound) and hang up the phone. :D