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Do you 'F' with Telemarketers?

Always
5 (45.5%)
Depnds on how Lonely and Bored I am
4 (36.4%)
No, it's creul, they're just trying to make $$
2 (18.2%)

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Voting closed: April 20, 2019, 08:33:03 pm

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Offline corbe

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Do you 'F' with Telemarketers?
« on: April 15, 2019, 08:33:03 pm »
   I ask this because I just took a call from Quebec, (Bored, Lonely, YES), her English was very good, we both Laughed profusely across our cultural divide. 
   
   PS: She spoke highly of our President as she tried to hawk her Canadian Pharmacy to me.
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Re: Do you 'F' with Telemarketers?
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2019, 09:08:45 pm »
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Re: Do you 'F' with Telemarketers?
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2019, 09:10:07 pm »
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Re: Do you 'F' with Telemarketers?
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2019, 09:32:02 pm »
Is laying the phone down and seeing how long it takes for them to discover that there is no one on the other end F'n with them?
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Re: Do you 'F' with Telemarketers?
« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2019, 03:26:13 pm »
I chose 'lonely and bored' but it usually actually depends on what type of call it is. If it is a scammer from Bangladesh or a political pollster, I screw with them. If it is just some poor lady trying to sell insurance, I don't want to make her day any harder and apologize and asked to be put on the do not call list and hang up.
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Re: Do you 'F' with Telemarketers?
« Reply #5 on: April 16, 2019, 04:56:51 pm »
Like most people today, I tend to screen all my landline calls by caller ID, but that's not always useful due to masking and spoofing.

For the most part, I am polite but insistent in stopping their sales pitch at the moment I am certain I don't want or need what they are selling. 

For charities, at least those I can identify as valid, I will listen longer. 
 
For scammers, I am not at all hesitant to scam them back: "Good morning, FBI Northeast field office, Agent Mulder speaking, how can I help you?"


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Re: Do you 'F' with Telemarketers?
« Reply #6 on: April 16, 2019, 05:18:35 pm »
Quote from: thackney on April 15, 2019, 09:10:07 pm


I would love to get my hands on one of those old rotary phones.  Those things are indestructible.  Build a house out of them, and you could survive a direct nuclear blast.
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Re: Do you 'F' with Telemarketers?
« Reply #7 on: April 16, 2019, 05:32:30 pm »
Quote from: Bigun on April 15, 2019, 09:32:02 pm
Is laying the phone down and seeing how long it takes for them to discover that there is no one on the other end F'n with them?

My friend in Houston just puts the phone next to the radio where Rush Limbaugh is pontificating.  I'd say that qualifies...lolol.
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Re: Do you 'F' with Telemarketers?
« Reply #8 on: April 16, 2019, 05:34:42 pm »
They aren't worth my time.  I'm never that bored.  When I get those calls on my cell, I just block them and report it to "MrNumber," the app I have.
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Re: Do you 'F' with Telemarketers?
« Reply #9 on: April 16, 2019, 05:35:51 pm »
Quote from: Hoodat on April 16, 2019, 05:18:35 pm
I would love to get my hands on one of those old rotary phones.  Those things are indestructible.  Build a house out of them, and you could survive a direct nuclear blast.

Au Contraire!  I beat one to death once.  Now...payphones.  Those things are battleships.
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Re: Do you 'F' with Telemarketers?
« Reply #10 on: April 16, 2019, 06:06:45 pm »
Do you 'F' with Telemarketers?

It's been known to happen......

Most are recordings that I get now, so I just hang up.
As I got older, I politely say, "No, thank you" and hang up, even if I do cut them off in mid-ramble.
It dawned on me that some of those folks are just trying to make end meet.
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Re: Do you 'F' with Telemarketers?
« Reply #11 on: April 16, 2019, 06:09:28 pm »
Quote from: GrouchoTex on April 16, 2019, 06:06:45 pm
Do you 'F' with Telemarketers?

It's been known to happen......

Most are recordings that I get now, so I just hang up.
As I got older, I politely say, "No, thank you" and hang up, even if I do cut them off in mid-ramble.
It dawned on me that some of those folks are just trying to make end meet.

Why waste both our time?  Hang up.
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Re: Do you 'F' with Telemarketers?
« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2019, 01:06:58 am »
Haven't had a land line for quite some time and if I don't recognize the number I don't answer....usually the call will show up as "Scam Likely".
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