I hate telemarketers. I have 2 ways of dealing with them:
1> I repeatedly explain to them that I have a personal policy *never* to buy anything from telemarketers, and that I consider their call an invasion of my privacy. I then ask them to remove my details from their lists (I doubt they ever do) and hang up.
2> I put them on "hold". Since I don't actually have a hold button on my phone, this means just putting the phone by my stereo and playing funny and/ or offensive and/or bizarre music. In the past I've come back to them after 15 minutes or more and found them hanging on...
I'd like to think that on those telemarketting lists they circulate, my name has got a big black "Don't waste your time phoning this guy" warning next to it
