Turning Down a Tele-Marketer('s Offer)

[Anakin Skywalker]

Allergic ni mother ko dagitoy nga tele-marketers. Ti awag na ngarud kadakuada ket "peste" (ooppss). No pinik-up mo dayta teleponon ay nagrigatm da nga ag-hang-up! No dadduma makaiha-hang-up ak lattan uray no madama nga agsasao ngem maalak met iti agbain isu nga kasla dumdumngak lattan uray haan. Tunno mauma, haan nak nga interesado kunakon.

Ni mother ko, I'm busy kuna naket ihang-up nan!

[Roldan]

No maminsan haan tayo met nga mababalaw dagita telemarketers a ta piman ket agsapul da met iti pag biag da. Ngem talaga met ngamin nga kasla da la "peste" no dadduma ta irana da met iti agyawag iti very un-holy hours kasla koma no kasangsangpet mo nga naggapu ti trabaho. Uray siak ket masuronak. Ibagsakak koma iti auditibo ti telepono nga tay uray lang nga ag-sul-ot ngem maalak met ti agamak.

Anakin, addan paglintegan nga no la ketdi dimo kayat nga tawagan da ka dagiti telemarketers ket haan nga mabalin nga tawagan da ka.

[BIG]

saan met nga kinabastos nu ibagam ti "no, sorry, i'm not interested bye" saka mo ibaba diay telepono. Nag "sorry" ka met, ken imbagam nga "not interested" saka ka nag "bye".

[BenLopez]

Ibagam lattan iti kastoy:

"Sorry, I'm not home!" :) :) :)

[RainMan]

Naimbag nga aldaw/malem/rabii yo apo.
Mayat man detoy topiko yo.

Uray siak ket medyo marigatannak nga ag-exit no marana dak dagitoy nga tele-marketers. Uray ngamin no ibagam nga haan ka nga interesado ket adda met dagitay napursigi (very pushy) ken ammo da iti mang-sales talk.

Adda koma met ngamin tele-marketing blocker nga kasla spam-blocker wenno pop-up blocker. :)

[AoteaRoa]

Just pretend you know him/her (the telemarketer).
Act like you really know him when you are sure that he/she is a telemarketer. Like this:

Hey, Roy! Sika kADI nga agpayso? Long time no talk pare. Kumusta kan? kasanom nga naamuan toy # ko bla bla bla....
Isunan ton ti mangi-hang-up diay telepono inton mauma...
Padasen yo. It worked for me. it will work for you...

[gr8-one]

Here's another way to do it - probably the most effective: :) :)

After introducing himself/herself (by now you should know that he/she is a telemarketer), ibagam iti kastoy:

"I'm kind of busy right now so why don't you give me your phone number and I'll call you back".

Ti posible nga sungbat na ket:

"I can't" wenno "we're not allowed to do that" wenno.......

Regardless, maymaysa laeng iti isungbat mo. Kastoy man ne:

"So now you know how I feel!"

Pustaan kadi, I-hang up na diay telepono before nga sika ti mangi hang-up.

Throw the ball in his court...

[Roldan]

Mayat man deta gr8-one, padsek to man!
Ben Lopez, wen ammo mi ag-pakpakatwa ka laeng. hehehe

[sadiri]

bagsakam latta ketdin. kitaem dinanto ulitenen ti tumawag. :)

[Windoc]

Apay ngata kaniak awan iti agtawag nga tele-marketer? Ammoda siguro nga awan iti kuartak. :)

[Misty_Eyes]

Do you guys watch Seinfeld? :)

[Bernadette]

I pretend to be a guest of the house or I say my parents are not home.

[Alistair]

Here's an article for you:

Tele-marketers get Barry's call
MIAMI - Now it's the tele-marketers who are getting the calls, thanks to Dave Barry - a Humor columnist.

In his Aug. 31 column, Barry urged readers to call the American Tele-Services Assoc and tell them what you think about telemarketers. I'm sure they'd love to see your constitutionally-protected views! Be sure to wipe your mouthpiece afterward, wrote Barry, whose column is syndicated to some 500 newspapers accross the US.
Thousands of readers responded with a flood of calls to the group's offices, causing the association to stop answering its phones.
ATA exc. director TIM SEARCY said the added calls will be costly to the group because of toll charges and staffing issues.
"It's difficult not to see some malice in Barry's intent," Searcy said. Barry sounded un-apologetic. (Good!)
"I feel just terrible, especially if they were eating or anything,' he said. "They have phones like the rest of us have phones. Their attitude seems to be if you have a phone, people are allowed to call you."
Callers to ATA now hear a recording that says, "because of overwhelming positive response to recent media events, we are unable to take your call at this time."
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NOW YOU KNOW HOW WE FEEL? :lol: :lol: :lol:

[gr8-one]

Do you guys watch Seinfeld? :)

ABC shows re-runs of Seinfeld at 630 pm daily and I am still loving 'em.

[Roldan]

We might still be getting those calls, guys. Read on...

'Do not call' list faces more hang-ups
Legislators vote to give FTC authority on telemarketing, but a second judge blocks the list.
September 25, 2003: 7:10 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (CNN/Money) - The House and Senate voted Thursday to grant the Federal Trade Commission explicit authority to create a national "do not call" list for telemarketers, but the move prompted a second federal judge to block the move.

But the decision, made by District Judge Edward Nottingham in Denver, was based on telemarketers' free speech rights rather than questions over whether the FTC had the authority to implement such a list.

"The FTC has chosen to entangle itself too much in the consumer's decision by manipulating consumer choice and favoring speech by charitable (organizations) over commercial speech," the judge said.

Earlier on Thursday, the House voted 412-8 and the Senate voted 95-0. The bill will now be sent to President Bush for approval. He is expected to sign it.

The quick action comes a day after a federal judge ruled the FTC overstepped its congressional mandate to create the wildly popular list. (For more on that story, click here.)

"Fifty million Americans can't be wrong," Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., declared Wednesday, referring to the number of phone numbers that people have signed up to block the unwanted solicitations.

"The goal is to get it to the president's desk today," said Jack Finn, a spokesman for Sen. John Ensign, the Nevada Republican who is sponsoring the Senate bill.

The lawmakers who voted against the list said they did so either because they opposed government regulation of telemarketers or because their districts were home to call centers they feared would be shuttered by the new rules.

"In my judgment I can tolerate the inconvenience of an unwanted phone call, but I cannot tolerate job loss," said Rep. Ted Strickland, D-Ohio, who voted against the bill. "Job loss in my district is devastating."

Lawmakers expect that the quick congressional action will mean the new list will take effect Oct. 1 as was expected before Wednesday's court ruling.

The scurry on Capitol Hill comes a day after U.S. District Judge Lee West ruled that the FTC cannot enforce the do-not-call registry. The ruling was a victory for the Direct Marketing Association and telemarketers who said the registry violated their rights under the First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution.

In response to the ruling, the FTC said it had asked a court to stay the decision blocking its popular "do not call" anti-telemarketing list while it appeals the case.

The DMA is a trade group representing about 5,000 U.S. companies. Other plaintiffs, all telemarketers, were U.S. Security, Chartered Benefit Services Inc., Global Contact Services Inc. and InfoCision Management Corp.

FTC Chairman Timothy Muris called the court's decision "clearly incorrect," and vowed the agency will "seek every recourse to give American consumers a choice to stop unwanted telemarketing calls."

The FTC's do-not-call list was created in early 2002 and implemented this year after Congress ordered the agency to make rules preventing abusive and deceptive telemarketing practices.

The DMA and the other plaintiffs had challenged the creation of the list and its prohibition of "abandoned calls," defined as one in which the telemarketer does not get on the line within two seconds of calling a consumer. They wanted the court to prohibit the FTC from enforcing the registry and rules against abandoned calls.

West agreed regarding the registry, but disagreed regarding abandoned calls.

With the list generating so much interest, many consumers decried the court's action.

"If a solicitor comes to my door, I have the right not to let them into my house," one reader wrote to CNN/Money. "Fifty million Americans have already made that choice and it shouldn't be taken away from them." (For more on the readers' reaction, click here.)

Meanwhile, the head of the DMA said the FTC simply overreached.

"What we said in our court case, and the judge agreed with us, was that the FTC simply didn't have the authority to do this," DMA CEO Robert Wientzen told CNN. (For more on Wientzen's comments, click here.)

[Windoc]

I don't get it! You actually make a list of people who doesn't want to entertain telemarketers?

Maaramid koma met ditoy Pilipinas iti kasta.

[Kelsey]

You know the funny thing about this is, the judge who ruled that the FTC doesn't have the power to enforce it is - get this - actually on the "DO NOT CALL LIST"!

Think about it. :)

[BB-M]

I don't see any reason why this cannot be enforced. It's clear that there are a lot of people who don't want to be bothered (50 million) by signing up on the LIST and I don't know how you can tell them "hey, whether you like it or not, this people (telemarketers) have the right to bother you."

Sure they have the right to Free Speech but what about the rights of those who signed up?

Too bad I missed the sign up process!

[gr8-one]

You can still sign up BB-M.