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[calimac]

If you tell a phone solicitor from a nonprofit group that you're on the No-Call List, they'll immediately respond that they're not subject to the No-Call List.

They don't get it, do they? I mean, they really, really don't get it.

Also, the next time one of them calls and brightly announces "This is [first name]," I should immediately respond as if they're the person I know best by that name, even though I can obviously tell they're not that person, and drown them in a lot of personal questions, pretend not to understand their expostulations, and finally get very put out and accuse them of impersonating that person.

Comments

[margdean56.livejournal.com]

You have a lot more patience than I do. I generally hang up the moment I'm sure the call isn't something I'm interested in. Live callers get a quick "I'm not interested thank you" before the *click*, robocalls I don't bother.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds like fun!

I've been trying to think of a suitable way to get back at the one who keeps calling with the "There's nothing wrong with your account, but we urgently encourage you to . . ."

"What's that? I'm going bankrupt?"

"As I said, there's nothing wrong with your account, but I'd like to take the opportunity--"

"But you said we're going bankrupt!"

[and keep repeating, gently escalating into terror of financial disaster, without ever letting them finish a sentence.}

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

I generally tell folks that I don't make charitable donation decisions over the phone, thank them for their time without letting them get a word in, and hang up.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

It's not that I'm more patient; it's that I have more taste for getting back at these intruders.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Once in response to someone who said she was with some cancer group, I affected to understand that she was saying that she had cancer. That, however, turned out to be just a bit too much.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

You're straightforward, because you're a dog. I'm a cat, and cats torture their prey.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that might be icky. I'd hang up on them, and donate where I know that the money will actually go to research, and not 99% to "overhead"

[pyffe.livejournal.com]

I've been getting tons of these lately and can't think of a reason for the spike. I just interrupt them and say, "Please take me off your list. Thank you" and hang up. Very annoying.

[19-crows.livejournal.com]

Pat asks charities what percentage of their take actually goes to the cause, and acts all interested, before he tells them we're not interested.

I've fucked with these callers too. I'm a cat.