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I love when telemarketers get our names wrong. Because then I can say with absolute certainty: “Why no, [Michelle/Melinda/Martha or Dave/Dana/Diane] isn’t here.”
The rest of the time I say I’m not interested and hang up, but it’s more fun to feel like I’ve found the loophole in the system.
I love the constant calls we get from people calling about our “credit cards” and how they can consolidate and lower our payments. We don’t have any credit cards here. Same with the ones to lower our mortgage. We rent. My grandpa gets ones all the time from people claiming the car warranty is about to expire. We get those too, but he doesn’t even own a car.
We get this a lot too. Our last name is actually two first names if you pull them apart and, sure enough, people call us asking for one of the last names as if that’s our first name. Dopes!
A subject dear to my heart! My dad taught me to politely decline interest, then, if they keep pushing, just set the phone down and walk away. Don’t hang up. Just leave. I once went back to the phone after 20 minutes, and the telemarketer was still on the line, discussing the weather with someone else. Good times.
Yeah, evvvvvvvvverybody gets our last name wrong. They just can’t handle it. It’s not tricky, just unusual (it’s Dutch), and as soon as they start to struggle, I know it’ll be a short call.
And if they call me Katherine – I don’t even get called that when I’m in trouble anymore – or if they try to shorten my husband’s name, then, again, I know. Nope, no one here by that name, move along!
My personal favorite is a polite “Sorry, I’m not interesting.” How can they argue with that?
Kate, are you in trouble much?
AD: Don’t hang up! That never occurred to me. Occasionally I let my kids talk, though.
Ry, you are very interesting. I would totally argue with you.
oh my gosh this is one of my favorite things to do. People butcher my husband’s last name which is graber, so when I hear someone ask for Mr. Grabber I can easily respond that no one with that name lives here. Even better when they ask for Mrs. Graber or Grabber because I didn’t change my last name when I married him so, nope, none of those here either!
Mr. Grabber! I would totally go the inappropriate route and tell them that’s a nickname for only family members to use.
I ALWAYS get those stupid calls that say “Don’t be ALARMED, but your warranty is about to expire!” They bug me so much!!
Usually you can just hear the pause and then the noise of telemarketers, I just hang up before they even say hello.
If there was really something to be alarmed (or not) about, a recorded message would not be involved. Know what I mean?