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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;calcol, post: 2741191, member: 77639&quot;]Ideally, one should play the game until a person cones on the line, but without saying or doing anything that can be construed as a commitment.&nbsp; Although they don&#039;t pay employees much, the biggest cost for telemarketers is still personnel, not computers or telco bills.&nbsp; Then when an employee comes on the line, try to keep them on the line as long as possible without committing to anything or providing legitimate info.&nbsp; If everyone did this, the telemarketers would go out of business quickly.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know some folks do telemarketer baiting.&nbsp; They get an employee on the line and then pretend to be an older person who is partly senile and a bit hard of hearing.&nbsp; Biggest bait is a credit card number, so they keep fumbling a digit or two and never give a valid number.&nbsp; Object is to keep the employee(s) on the line as long as possible.&nbsp; A real score is to get a supervisor on the line or get a call-back by a real person.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like most folks, I don&#039;t usually have the patience and hang up as soon as I think it&#039;s a telemarketer, charity beggar. or politician.&nbsp; This, of course, is exactly what telemarketers prefer if they aren&#039;t going to get money out of you.&nbsp; Worst case for them is being strung along using employee time and getting nothing out of it. </p><p><br /></p><p>One exception for me is coin telemarketers.&nbsp; I&#039;ve often played the game with them, but never lied to them.&nbsp; Sometimes it&#039;s been repeated calls to me over a period of weeks until they get the message.&nbsp; I have yet to buy from someone who cold-calls offering to sell coins.&nbsp; The real score here is getting the occasional freebie coin.&nbsp; Biggest have been an ASE and a silver libertad.&nbsp; Wish I knew how they got my name and number, but they won&#039;t say.&nbsp; Has to be from dealers or magazines with whom I do business.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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