Fun with telemarketers

[firecat]

I canceled my service at Dish Network about nine months ago, because the satellite dish got removed to install a new roof and I wasn't watching TV anyway, so I didn't want to keep paying the monthly fee. I plugged $10 rabbit ears into my TV and now I get anywhere from 2.3 to 15.249 channels depending on the weather, the time of day, and whether the moon is in Taurus. I channel-surf maybe a couple times a month.

Tonight a telemarketer calls me.

Telemarketer from Dish Network: "Why did you cancel your service?"
Me: "I pretty much stopped watching TV, so..."
Telemarketer: "But don't you think you might want to watch a little bit of TV? At a really cheap price?"
Me: "I dunno, but I don't want to restart my Dish service."
Telemarketer: "But is there a specific reason why you canceled your service?"
Me: .....
(*imagines what the next 10 minutes will be like if I start explaining it*)
(*hangs up*)

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re: Fun with telemarketers

[betonica]

Got a call yesterday from a telemarketer, but I know it was a scam. We've been getting calls from some nameless (fictional) company that supposedly will lower our credit card rates (I called someone like the Better Business Bureau or the DA or something once, and got the lowdown). I've probably gotten at least 20 calls from them over the years, including three in the last month.

So I kept this guy on the phone for two minutes, playing dumb ("So, are you guys MasterCard?" "Did you get my number from Visa?" - interestingly, the guy actually said "yes" to that one). Then I said I'd kept him on the phone for two minutes, the call had been traced, and the DA was going to sue his ass. And hung up.

My 74 yo mother gets these calls (she's explained repeatedly that she doesn't *have* a credit card). Her calls are apparently always from someone named Heather. Yesterday she routed her way through the automated stuff to an answering machine, and ended her reply with, "And you need to get rid of that Heather person. If you don't, I'm going to kill her."

Re: Fun with telemarketers

[firecat]

I've gotten those calls too.

"And you need to get rid of that Heather person. If you don't, I'm going to kill her."

LOL!