Tele sales ''kill' methods?

[lee n. field]

Tom Mabe is the absolute best with telemarketers: http://www.tommabe.com/

"Wake that kid up, give him my id and my car keys and send him out for some beer ." (talking to police benevolent assn. telesales droid).

Improv comedy.  Tom Mabe's kind of crude, but very funny.

[InfidelSerf]

I would not reccomend volunteering yourself for the "national no call list"  
That list has already been hacked once this past year.  

The best way to avoid them and the best way to use a telephone in my opinion, is to shut off all your ringers and pay for caller ID

I don't answer a call if I don't recognize the number.. and anyone who really needs to get ahold of me knows to either IM me or call hang up.. call hang up and call again.

I absolutely refuse to "jump" whenever that damn phone rings.  
Personally I hate phones.  No cell phone for me.


On that note most telemarketers have a rules that dictate they can not hangup before you do.   So answering saying hello and then setting the phone down will leave them frustrated.. because they have to stay on the line till they get their supervisor over to confirm the hangup.
That said there is also another method.

Answer.. once you've established its a sales call so no thanks and hang up.
Its really not that hard to hang up on them and they are all used to it and expect it.

[K Frame]

"Back when I answered the house phone, I either hung up on them, sat the phone down, or fed them a large helping of BS. "

I still remember the night I called your cell phone and tried to sell you, as a 501C3 company, aluminum siding for your cemetary plot.

You'd think that would have tipped you off, but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. You were far too busy getting righteously pissed.

[Strings]

Note to self: never give Mike Irwin my phone number...

[Azrael256]

I like to answer the phone in a foreign language, preferably one that doesn't exist.  Then, attempt to converse as if the telemarketer were a long lost relative.