Jan 21, 2014
Good start. However, assuming it's convenient, talk to them. Let them go through their script. Ask questions. Act interested, but non-committal. Take up their time. Remember, every minute they talk to you, they aren't making a sale. I've kept them on the line for 20-30 minutes. If just 15 other people did that every day, it would effectively take out a live sales person. Just 30 people can disable 2 live sales people. And that translates to real money. That comes out of profit. And out of the thousands of calls they make every day, it doesn't take a huge percentage of people to play along.
The telemarketers know it's a numbers game, and hanging up benefits their numbers. Make the numbers work for us. Take up their time. Every opportunity you get. Kill the profit, and you kill telemarketing. DNC lists and reporting them haven't worked well. But if enough people do this, talking to them will hurt them more than anything else.