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Some tips to get around telemarketers. Yea you know, the scum of the world… The bottom of the food chain. The crap stuck to the bottom of your shoe you’re relentlessly dragging your feet for… I hate em’!

(1)The three little words are: “Hold On, Please…”Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt. [...]

(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end? This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone. This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a “real” sales person to call back and get someone at home. [...]

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I guess there’s also the Do-Not-Call Registry