# What do you tell telemarketers?

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-tell-telemarketers/155005>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [December 20, 2019, 12:23am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-tell-telemarketers/155005 "2019-12-20T00:23:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Triedaq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Triedaq](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Triedaq)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 11:10pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-tell-telemarketers/155005/41 "2019-12-21T23:10:18Z")

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@ok4450. You don’t want to use the electricity generated by the wind turbine. A strong breeze gets the turbine spinning so fast that the kilowatts generated move so fast that they blow the plugs out of the electrical outlets.

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**Author:** ![kurtwm1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@kurtwm1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/kurtwm1)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-tell-telemarketers/155005/42 "2019-12-22T00:39:52Z")

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Did you answer? 😆

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**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 1:35am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-tell-telemarketers/155005/43 "2019-12-22T01:35:52Z")

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Of course, then I sent myself payment in form of a gift card!

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**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 3:55am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-tell-telemarketers/155005/44 "2019-12-22T03:55:30Z")

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Threat of shutdown for not car related, Cars, like the call we want to buy out your lease, wife went in to talk, would only cost us 4 grand for a car a year newer.

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**Author:** ![PaulCh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5fc32e/32.png) [@PaulCh](https://community.cartalk.com/u/PaulCh)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2019, 1:34am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-tell-telemarketers/155005/45 "2019-12-25T01:34:54Z")

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At home, if the caller is not identified I answer “Defense Intelligence Agency, Fraud Investigations.”

But mostly wasted since the auto warrantee calls have automated voices. It is rare that I get a fraudulent call on my personal lines that have an actual human at the other end.

Not answering is not an option since the call might have to do with a family medical emergency. The “if it is important they will leave a message” attitude just doesn’t work for me.

Much bigger problem are the many, many calls to my office, around 3/4ths of them are people asking if they can send me white papers, usually for VOIP systems. I have moved from quickly saying “No interest, I just bought one” to just hanging up on them. Thankfully my new office phone system has a blocking feature.

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**Author:** ![sgtrock21](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/sgtrock21/32/246_2.png) [@sgtrock21](https://community.cartalk.com/u/sgtrock21)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-tell-telemarketers/155005/46 "2019-12-26T21:17:21Z")

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A few months ago my cell phone got a call from itself. Twice!

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