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I'm so pissed off

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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I keep getting stupid phone calls from telemarketers (well I assume its telemarkerters, cuz its "number withheld" I've never bothered to answer) On my cell phone!!! I've never even heard of that happening to people on their cell before.

So I go to have my number changed. Cost me $16. Well I'm getting calls a good 6-7 times a day. Cost money to change your number? Fuck that.

So I ask for a number with the area code 847. (The first three digits of the phone number) The tmobile asslicking idiot jackass says there are none available. There is not one single number available in the whole area code? My ass.

Now I have a number with a stupid area code and now I have to go call the store and the doctor and my parents. Thank god I have no friends, else I'd have to call them too.

I wish I never changed it :(

I feel like such a moron.

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    Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    God, story of life eh? I just love telemarketer calls these days - btw, its guaranteed you'll get tham again - give it a few months. This time... take the offensive! It's fun!

    Try selling them stuff. Make it something either stupid or damned nasty - A pet cat, cardboard boxes, post-it notes with naked ladies on, anal porn, drugs, etc... just have fun. And make it serious you know - really go for the sale! Sound dead serious until they get confused, angry, or depressed and hang up. Never give in.

    Or, just try chatting to them about general issues of the day. Try your hardest to spark up conversation about something. It can be fun and enlightening as to that these are real people on the other end if they chat to you.

    Most of all, do something that will keep them on the line and waste the companies time. Both of the above do this - and be creative, think up your own methods.

    Or, maybe, you'd like to continually answer "Hello" to EVERYTHING they say in a foreign accent. This will piss them off or confuse them well.

    But never, ever, buy what they are selling. That defeats the object of fucking with telemarketers.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    my mate had this, trying to sell him a contract phone, it was so funny because in his deep glasweigen accent he would shout down the phone " I dooont want ye fooking fone" and the indian on the other end of the phone would still go on! It used to have us in stiches but our mate never found it funny. This used to happen to him on an almost daily basis.
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    Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    If you never answered how do you know they weren't some of your friends who switched their phones to hide their number?
    And what do you care what area code your mobile has? You're going to notify people you changed your number anyway. Actually I never thought that mobiles have area codes; only a different beginning based on your network.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I live in the 847 area code. My phone was 773, the nw part of chicago and thats what they changed it too :( I don't live there, I don't want people to see my number and think I do.
    And my friend wouldn't waste her day calling my phone 7 times a day.

    But its al good anways. I went downstairs cried a bit and then Ed called up the business help one, cuz they care alot more and now my number is 847 and they took away my charges. Oh what would I do without him :heart:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    telephone preference service?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I restrict incomming calls to numbers already in my phonebook, Can you do that?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    noog wrote:
    I restrict incomming calls to numbers already in my phonebook, Can you do that?

    My phone isn't cool enough :(

    But it doesn't matter now, as long as my parents remember the new number :p
    Though I had a helluva time trying to tell the woman I was setting up an appt with my number, I made her wait for a couple minutes while I rummaged around the text messages trying to find it :o

    Your picture amuses me much.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    "asslicking idiot jackass" tickled me.. haha


    wait, that sounds a bit gay
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