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Members here in Oz will be up with the play on this but some info for the Northern Hemisphere guys. A journalist recently enrolled in a call centre in India. Smuggled a video camera into the instruction course and has now been played on our TV here in Oz. Employees taught the names of various cities and landmarks here. Also how to pronounce words with an oz accent and also told- Aussies are quite dumb and very slow so to speak slowly- If the weekend they will be hammered so easy to sell to-(must be the seriously rich they are phoning with the current price of beer) Aussies hate Indians and also not to degrade our pets as we are sensitive in that area? With a PR system like this they are really out to make friends and win business!!!!!!!!!!! On your side of the world do they phone just at dinnertime trying to sell you some obscure phone plan? They would get through a lot more calls your way being able to talk faster!! to sober clientle. 
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Here's how I handle these things. I no longer have a home phone. My cell phone is on the national do not call register list.If I do not recognize the number on my cell I do not answer it. If for some reason someone does call me or knocks on the door whatever it is they are selling my response is " I just purchased that very product last week" Siding, miracle oil, girl scout cookies, religion..... Click goes the phone or slam goes the door. Next question 
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I have an unlisted number and answering machine to screen calls. SO DON'T CALL ME! 
"Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary" Author unknown
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They want to know quickly if you are not interested so they can move on to the next victim, so I just set the phone down on the table and walk away. With a little luck they will waste a lot of their time. I come back a few minutes later and hope to find them still on the line.
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my wife gets a kick out of it when i act like an old man and tell them "you'll have to speak up, i cant hear you" and so of course they speak louder then i speak louder and then they speak louder and,... well you get the idea  eventually we are just hollering back and forth untill they finally hang up. i have heard them say some pretty vulgar foul and filth thinking i cant hear them  i have also been known to speak jiberish to them and they cant seem to figure out what language i am speaking, now thats a real fun one. but with caller I.D. i dont do alot of that anymore.
ENJOY!!!!! NEWT!!!!!
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I have an unlisted number and answering machine to screen calls.
Add to that, caller ID for me anyway and I don't get too much harassment.
(Although recently I let a few calls get through from Oregon, Washington, Montana from guys wanting my address. Next thing I know they're on my doorstep expecting a place to crash!!! )
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I have an unlisted number and answering machine to screen calls. SO DON'T CALL ME!
Darn! and we had so many things we wanted to call you. 
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I have an unlisted number and answering machine to screen calls.
Add to that, caller ID for me anyway and I don't get too much harassment.
(Although recently I let a few calls get through from Oregon, Washington, Montana from guys wanting my address. Next thing I know they're on my doorstep expecting a place to crash!!! )
Ya, but you made up for it by forcing all that wi.. er refreshment into us? Well some of us anyway.. 
I'm speeding because I have to get there before I forget where I was going.
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We get the same in France and have found three methods that work.
1. (french-speaking call centers) Speak only in English.
2. Tell them that we are burglars who are robbing the property and only picked up the phone because it kept ringing.
3. Just keep saying (loudly) Hello - Hello - Hello................
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My girlfriend thinks I'm a stalker...
Well, she's not actually my girlfriend yet.
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I ask sales people to hold then leave to go do something. Waste their time as they are mine.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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Yeah they call us a lot because we are sober and a lot smarter. Its a minor inconvenience. I just hang up. I assume its a solicitation because anybody that means anything to me has my cell phone.
I try to aggravate one person a day. Today may be your day.
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Bar Shake
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I have an unlisted number and answering machine to screen calls. SO DON'T CALL ME!
Darn! and we had so many things we wanted to call you.
Yeah, Friar John probably has a whole list.
"Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary" Author unknown
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We get the same in France and have found three methods that work.
1. (french-speaking call centers) Speak only in English.
2. Tell them that we are burglars who are robbing the property and only picked up the phone because it kept ringing.
3. Just keep saying (loudly) Hello - Hello - Hello................
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Doing a variation on these themes over here... They speak Chinese, I speak English... if they somehow mumble some English, I switch to French, just for fun!
Lost my temper on the last one who called at 7ham on a Sunday.... They never called again!
Back home, I liked to say that "Mr. Doe" died 2 days ago, is there anything important about his life you should be telling me?
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The best one of all time. guy pretends the telemarketer called a crime scene. link
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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I have an unlisted number and answering machine to screen calls. SO DON'T CALL ME!
Darn! and we had so many things we wanted to call you.
Yeah, Friar John probably has a whole list.
Paul, there's only one thing I want to call you: Slow Rider. If I wasn't on that Harley... 
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Hey I resemble that remark. I was only going slow so you could keep up on that softailroadkingslideglide thingie you were riding. 
"Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary" Author unknown
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The classic "What are you wearing?" in my best Barry White voice usually does the trick.
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Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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