TRY THIS . . .

"Oh yes I am interested - wait til i get my husband."

You put the phone down (not hang up) and let THEM wait and wait and wait . . . 

 

For added joy just put it on speaker phone!!!

I  pick up the phone and once they start their patter I just say 'I'm not interested' and hang up. I've given up trying to be polite. I'm TSP registered but 99% seem to be coming from outside the UK ...........they have really increased in number recently. So infuriating especially if you're in the middle of something or just on your way out of the door.

I will try that next time

The ones that come to the door are just as bad, I recently had one for an animal  charity and i was cooking dinner at the time and he started with the usual *hello how are you today* and when he started with he's speech i said i don't like animals and he said what none and i said no, he said i don't think this charity is for you

Love it. I'm a very good liar to these callers - I say - my husband is a financial adviser, we've already got that, I already donate to that charity, my son in law has a double glazing firm etc.

 

My sister was here last week when one called .........as I shut the door on the DG salesman she looked at me genuinely puzzled and said 'who's your son in law?

 

I try to keep them on the line as long as possible. I see how long I can string them along. I see it as sport now.

 

My last triumph was a PPI enquiry. I let the chap do his speil, then I started to ask questions and probe. I also asked him a direct question I knew he would not want to answer, but I pressed and pressed.

 

I asked him "if you are going to recover my PPI and charge 25%, why would it not be beneficial for me to recover it myself and keep the 25%, taking 100%".

 

I am pleased to say that I kept him on the line 17 minutes and ended the call by telling him that I had been stringing him along to waste not only his time but his companies time and money.

 

He was less than impressed and put the phone down on me.

 

The most recent was a saleswoman wanting to sell me a conservatory. I live on the second floor of a block of apartments, she still tried to convince me that they could fit one, I was intrigued so chatted along for a while...

 

My friend has a completely different approach. He just says, please hold the line, I'm going to go quiet for a while, could you describe what you are wearing?

 

 

Yesterday, I did a ranty post in the Buddies thread about marketing calls from Virgin. I am a Virgin customer and I have repeatedly asked them to remove us from their marketing call list - they always say they will but they never do This morning, I did feel a wee bit sorry for the customer service guy who got the full force of my wrath when I called to complain - but as long as it stops the marketing calls, I can live with it.

Just say you are due to go into prison and could they call back in 15yrs 

I've got this mental image now of a block of flats with a conservatory sticking out like a glass elevator, but going nowhere

Same here.

My tactic is the same - keep them talking for as long as possible, i also use the one where i am an old lady who isn't allowed to answer the phone and would the caller mind talking to me for a while as i am not usually allowed to talk to people - i have to stay locked in my room......

love it

I've won about 4 kitchens in the past year in a competition I haven't entered, do they really think we are that stupid then again there are those that fall for the scams

 

 I would love one. But my neighbours would be a bit miffed at the lack of light !!

It would be a bit like this

 

 

And this what it would look like from inside

 

Caller display or a machine called Truecall 

OMG Squiggle that would freak me out, i think i must be slightly scared of heights 

 

As for cold callers i try to be polite and just say "No thank you" as i used to be one. BUT i did once get a call on my mobile from one who asked for a fake name I'd once given (hence i knew it was a sales call and not important) so i replied no thank you straight away and hung up. he rang back 5 times! 1st time he said how can you not be interested you don't know why I'm calling yet...... in end i shouted at him that i was a fake 'lead' (what these places call an appointment booked by a canvasser) and wasnt even called Mrs ******!!!, now i've tried to be nice but F off

 

 

I'm liking the design, will have to see what the company can do. 

 

I remember looking at a series of these pictures a while back. I thought at the time, could I stand in the glass box or even lay down. My palms began to sweat at the thought !!!

It was that last one that got me EC when I received them in an email.  It looks as if that boy could just slide over the edge but of course that's a trick of the eye, he is perfectly safe.  Don't think I could stand there though

I always tell cold callers that we rent the house - they soon go!!

 

Actually, I think my children did think we rented for years and years!

 

Do you know what Squiggle, I thought it was a girl in the picture.

But yes, get your point about the illusion.

 

Think I might have to go there and see what it's like.

That pic has started my vertigo off

i thought it was a boy last night but after looking closer i now see a hair bobble and pink socks and shoes

NO WAY would you get me in that glass box.  I wish you had all seen me & Gyps when we visited the Spinnekar Tower with it's portion of glass floor. 

Lol Cinds, i was in a bar a few months ago that had about a meter sq section of floor that was frosted glass on the first floor in front of the toilets. I jumped (in stooopid heels) over it every time i went to the loo rather than step on it.

Looking at the glass picture reminded me of this cliff walk.

Aimee I don't think you should watch it

Puts on glasses and looks again, you're right it's a girl!

 

That's good, we seem to have a consensus.

 

I love how the threads morph from one subject to another 

I wonder how far a thread has actually got from it's original topic?

I think I will stay clear of that

 

WOW - now that is not for the faint hearted.

I got about a minute in and had to click off. I can just about manage to stand on the ladders and change the lightbulb 

That walks definitely not for me.  I had to get on the floor of a minibus when driving up to the top of Gibraltar.

Im glad I didn't watch it

We went off at a tangent when our minds got stuck on the conservatory sticking out of a block of flats - we went

I'm not sure, but I think I read something about the popularity of that walk had got so great since that footage was released that the authorities have had it all refurbished and made a lot safer.

 

OF course, 'safer' is all relative, It's probably still fairly hairy.

 

Just happened to be watching Billy Connolly's Route 66 programme and he has just filmed himself standing in that very box. My palms were sweating for him as they panned down below him for over 100 storey's !!!!!