This is a very very useful list of ways to deal with telemarketing agents. Irritate them by returning the favor. Its an email forward. Have fun, learn and adopt, you will have peaceful life.
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After the telemarketer finishes speaking ask what he/she is doing this weekend. Don’t worry about other side is he/she; just ask him/her out. And finally ask him/her to marry you
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Tell the telemarketer you are busy at the moment, and ask him/her if he/she will give you his/her home phone number so you can call him/her back.
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Ask them to repeat everything they say, several times. Mimicking you played with siblings when you were young pay off here.
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Tell them it is dinner time, BUT ask if they would please hold. Put them on your speaker phone while you continue to eat at your leisure. Smack your food loudly and continue with your dinner conversation.
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Tell them that all business goes through your agent, and hand the phone to your five year old child. Ask your child to sing nursery rhymes
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Tell them you are hard of hearing and that they need to speak up…louder…louder…louder!
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Tell them to speak very slowly because you want to write every word down.
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If they start out with, “How are you today?” say “I’m so glad you asked, because no one these days seems to care, and I have all these problems…………”
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Cry out in surprise, “Helen, is that you? I’ve been hoping you’d call! How is the family?” When they insist they are not Helen, tell them to stop joking. This works especially well if the telemarketer is really MALE.
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Tell the HSBC call center guy to call on your office number. – And give him the ICICI call center number.
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The Bach 
rofl! hilarious ideas. you made my day, bach. thanks.
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Man!!!
You’ve been truly harrased it seems!
I loved the 6th and 9th one…surely going to try that someday!!!
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This is a wonderful list!
The sadistic points 8 and 9 are worth a try.
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I loved No. 3 & No.10 most….super ones…..
Few of my ideas:
You can also start off “hello…I can hear you” at every sentence….
Talk to them about your arthritis….
Talk like an answering machine…tell them to leave a message at the beep and inform them that they will be charged for every second they keep the phone engaged.
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@RK
Thanks. Not all of them are mine.
@goofysaint
Welcome to my blog.
Yes . I went through lot of harassment. On and average 4 calls a day, they torture me in installment basis.
@Srik ,
Feel free to try them. That’s why I wrote “to return the favor”.
@Vani ,
Thanks. Thanks for new additions. I guess I need to make then top twenty something
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ROTFL! Good ones!
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Really hilarious and I happen to read it While attending a boring seminar. I laughed so hard that I had to kick myself out of seminar!
Thanks for sharing
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Hey the 10th one is worth golden peacock award man!!
cheers
mohan!
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too good!!
One can also act as if you are in a cross-connected connection and bombard the person as to why the gas cylinder booked ten days ago is yet to make an appearance / complain as if to your friend about nuts from the said bank wooing you…
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@Mysorean,
Dhanyavadagalu .. Nandri.
@suresh,
Sir, its my pleasure.
Till recently you dint post your face in internet. You look handsome.
@mohan,
Thanks , but what is golden peacock ? Kingrooster award is enough for me.
@neel
wonderful. A new idea came to me. For such a call ” bhehen !!! where are you ? your mother is so much worried!!! ” etc . Not a great one but might work 😉
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