Daniel, I love that one. 
Arkansas has laws that make it a “no rebuttal” state. This is little-known but very nice when you know about it.
If a telemarketer calls us, all we have to say is “Excuse me, I live in Arkansas and it’s a no-rebuttal state; please remove us from all lists which your company services.”
They are legally obligated to comply, and they are not allowed “rebuttal;” they can’t try to continue their sales pitch, for instance. All they can legally do is say something like “Yes sir, I will do that; sorry to have bothered you.”
If they do anything else, and you get it on tape, you can file charges against the company.
–James
Hi.
I live in Denmark where we also have lows against telemarketing, onely newspapers and insurrence is allowed to call without an invitation.
For some time now an american company have been calling all over the country offering cruses in the Caribian.
The call begins with a taped woice speaking very fast englih about you have been selected for an oppertunity to a crouse in the Caribiens and if you want more details press 9. 
By the 4’th call I got tired about it 
and pressed 9 to get a person on the line to explain him that I didn’t want them to call me anymore.
The person emediatly started on a salesspeadge allmost impossible to interrupt him 
. When I finally manneged to interrupt he wasn’t interested in listening to me, instead his woice changed, more irritated, allmost angry, acusing me of calling him up???!!!??? waisting his time???!!!??? 
In the end I was so pissed of 
that I shouted in the pfone DO NOT CALL ME AGAIN! 
Well not realy what I wanted to do, but it seems to work, they havn’t called me since. 
Peter Juul
P.S. Sorry about my english, but I hope that you get the meaning! 
Peter, your English is fine! 
We’ve all been there–incidents like that are why states are passing “no rebuttal” and “opt out” laws.
–James
I always try to make the telemarketers day a little more exciting. With a job like that, I think they probably need all the excitement they can get.
Usually I interupt their spiel with. . .
“How did you get this number!!! No one was to call unless they needed HIM released! Do you have any idea what you’ve done??? He’s out now. You’ve got about 10 minutes now! Run!!!”
Then if you hit the hang up button really quickly and release it just as quickly, you can hear some of their reaction. It’s seems to throw them off just a little.
The other one I tried is, “Can you call later, my wife and I are in the middle of a conjugal visit?”
Mark
“Hello, I’m just calling to find out if ******** can count on your vote in Monday’s election”
Shocked and surprised response:
“He can count???”
So… you saying we shouldn’t use the aerosol foghorn on them?
Sounds reasonable enough to me
Slan,
D.
Once a Information caller caught me in a particularly bad mood.
Her “Did you know that 6000 people die in the US of ______ a year?’
Me “It’s a large country lots of people die.”
Pause….
Her “Yes but…”
The conversation just got worse after that.
Oh and Walden, I would rather call people and offer to sell them something and if they decide to buy, use an air horn and say “that’s what you get you gullible bastard”
PS Note the sig.
PPS Is gullible a real word? I could not find it in the dictionary.
PPS Is gullible a real word? I could not find it in the dictionary.
It’s not often I actually laugh out loud because of something I read online.
This did the trick.
Well done, I.D.10-t.
–James
James,
you’re so gullible.
Slan,
D. 