Na-a-a-a
She pulled the wool over your eyes!
I wish people would understand that all of these types of answers are completely counter productive. When you do that (or anything else to piss off or annoy the guy making the call) all he’s going to do is hit the button that puts you back in the system to try you again in X hours or X days…just to get back at you, and knowing full well it’s going to be some other random person who gets who has to deal with you next time, not him. And that guy is going to do the same thing.
Personally, IME, I’ve found the very best way to deal with telemarketers is to just say “Oh, I’m sorry, you must have the wrong number, there’s no Joey here” When I do that, it’s rare that they call back. Also, it might make a difference that I do it very nicely, as if it was just a random wrong number as opposed to the third telemarketer to call that day.
Oh they call cell phones too.
Unrelated to that - since they don’t have my phone number, if I could find the spawn of satan who sold my name to Elle magazine I would flay them alive. Every month I get a magazine (which I don’t read) as well as a dire notice telling me that my subscription is about to expire. The next month I still get the magazine and another dire warning.
I get more telemarketing calls on my cell number than on my landline. And I’d get even MORE spam on my cell if I hadn’t had my texting disabled. I never use texting, everyone who has my cell number knows this, but I was getting a LOT of text spams. Like, half a dozen a day. Fuck that shit. When I got a new phone, I just had the guy disable texting when he was setting up the thing.
This would make me totally stabby. Wanders off to hug a tree.
This resembles a typical tactic of magazines to which one actually subscribes. In one case I had a two-year subscription, and after a year I started getting increasingly dire warnings that I needed to renew right now or bear the unbearable risk of missing an issue. Eventually I wound up getting at least four months worth of extra issues even though I didn’t renew, and I thought the poor subscription department was on the verge of a breakdown based on the ever more hysterical tone of their letters.
Then you cook the lamb, eat it, and destroy the evidence.
Yes, I saw that episode!
Right, and if they really are calling the OP five times a day, that’s very likely why. He pissed them off and they are getting back. Which is a crime- ianal. But Discover needs to be notified by Certified letter.
I don’t get five or six calls a day, every day, that’s just the peak of annoyance it got to a couple of times. I think it’s averaging about 15 calls a week. (Today was two, that I was home for anyway.) I’ve never actually sworn at anybody – if they’re taking “we’ve gotten far too many calls, we don’t want the magazine, please don’t call again” as provoking, then they have worse problems than I do.
I could try the wrong number thing, I guess. Sending a certified letter to Discover sounds like a waste of money and effort – has anyone actually had that work? At the moment I’m just not picking up anymore.
Don’t ever give any money to NPR, years later I still get calls all the time.
But if my phone never actually rang, then it’d just be scum-o-the-earth torturing each other without any additional effort on my part. Sweet!
First of all, Normal Phase…young Padawan…
WHY THE FUCK DO THEY HAVE YOUR NUMBER!?
Lesson learned here. NEVER give your number out to magazine or any subscription people. If they absolutely insist they have a phone number…give them one. Just not yours.
1 + (Area code) + 867-5309
:smack:
I used to get calls all the time from a magazine clearing house. They would wake me up early in the morning and were very aggressive. I was never rude, I think they forced their callers to keep bothering me in the hopes that I might give them a credit card number.
I just started telling that I couldn’t talk because I was dead and hanging the phone up. The calls stopped.