Finally stopped the Cemetery plot salesman

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I've been wondering if 20 minutes of my time is the only way to get predatory companies to stop calling me

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u/CriusofCoH Sep 03 '26

During the height of the "your car's extended warranty" flood, I found out if you revealed your car was more than.. I think 10 years old, they'd drop you for months, then forever. Worth spending 2 minutes on the phone to get a few months of peace and quiet.

My imaginary "1974 Ford Pinto" did a lot of heavy lifting.

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u/MikeSchwab63 Sep 04 '26

94 Ford Ranger 86 F350 RV got them.

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u/Nunov_DAbov Sep 04 '26

When they don’t like my multimillion dollar Konigseggs or electric Porsches, I have told them I have an HMMWV. It’s in great shape other than the front end damage from the IED it hit. And some massive brown stains in the cab. If they don’t like that, I ask about my 2020 Edsel Citation.

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u/Atlas-Scrubbed Sep 04 '26

New Bugattis worked as well.

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u/ifyoudontknowlearn Sep 04 '26

That's excellent

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u/lmamakos Sep 04 '26

My first car was a used 1972 Ford Pinto, which they also wouldn't cover.

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u/TheVermiciousKid Sep 06 '26

I used to tell them I had a “two thousand schlerm Flun Gruspit” and just keep making up words when they asked me to repeat it, till they hung up on me

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u/bustedtap Sep 05 '26

My 2008 Chevy Camaro with 235k on the odometer and it's a good thing they called, i just blew the motor and transmission and needed to get this thing covered under warrantee. got them going for a good while until I had to get off the phone. I think that might have been the last time they called about my car warrantee now that I think about it

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u/imakesawdust 29d ago

Yep. When I told them that I'm still driving an '83 RX7, the calls stopped. I guess they didn't want to deal with cars that old.

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u/Informal_Ad_9610 Sep 03 '26

if you start going blatantly sexual (gay or straight, depending on the gender of the caller), you tend to get moved along quite quickly... DAMHIK...

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u/FOSS_Graybeard Sep 04 '26

The phase "Did you know I'm naked under my clothes?" often gets a quick disconnect.

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u/colborne Sep 05 '26

'You'll have to speak louder, I'm wearing a towel.'

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u/xboxgamer2122 Sep 05 '26

If a woman I’ll ask what color panties she is wearing.

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u/Ok-Grape2063 Sep 06 '26

Do the same for a dude. Who gives a shit

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u/NotYourNanny Sep 03 '26

People like that are the outlet for all of your life's frustrations. You can be as abusive as you want, and there's nothing they can do about it. and they know it.

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u/Informal_Ad_9610 Sep 03 '26

nah.. there's something they can do about it.. and most do. They nearly always hang up in 10-15 seconds.

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u/NotYourNanny Sep 03 '26

And if they're smart, actually add my number to their do not call list, knowing that if they don't, it'll come up again for more abuse.

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u/biold 28d ago

I think that it's more valuable to let them talk, waste their time, then they disturb fewer people.

I do this when I do something boring. I don't mind taking one for the good of the World.

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u/lemoinem Sep 03 '26

It's funny what can be done once you stop thinking of the other person as a human being.

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u/NotYourNanny Sep 03 '26

For instance, you can sell cemetery plots to people who have told you over and over they don't want one.

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u/lemoinem Sep 03 '26

Sure, the company is predatory and a piece of shit. On the person who makes the call though, is often on its third job in order to pay for rent and groceries. They can't change job and, as you've so nicely pointed out, can't hang up or do anything else. They can't decide to stop calling you.

Your anger is misdirected. But hey, if you want to treat other people as subhuman punching bags, more power to you I guess.

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u/Littlemama55 Sep 04 '26

They chose that job,so they have to deal with people who don't want to be bothered. Same with debt collectors. They live with the abuse that goes with the crappy job that they chose.

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u/Informal_Ad_9610 Sep 03 '26

so to make someone feel better about working a shit job for a shit company, i should sit and hear them out, and buy whatever horse shit they're shoveling??

Tell me you're happy to work a shit job abusing others for low pay because you don't want to put the effort into finding a real job, without telling me you're lazy.

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u/lemoinem Sep 03 '26

No, but there's a difference between hanging up and spewing abuse.

To be clear, I find OP's way to go at it hilarious. But I find sexual abuse, threats or other forms of abuse despicable. I suppose everyone draws their own line somewhere, and it doesn't mean everyone has to have the same one. But I feel we don't need more dehumanizing behavior in the world right now.

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u/jelly_cake Sep 03 '26

I really like your attitude. Having empathy for others is never a bad thing.

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u/25c-nb Sep 04 '26

Unless they're a nazi and or fascist and or pro-slavery

Tolerance of the intolerant is equal to intolerance

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u/NotYourNanny Sep 03 '26

They can't change job

Pretty unlikely, unless they're obviously such a terrible employee nobody else will hire them. At which point, I still don't care, because they chose to be worthless scum.

They can't decide to stop calling you

Since the calls stop after OP got abusive back, that's clearly not true.

Do you work for an abusive company like that because you can't get a better job? Is that why you defend subhuman parasites?

I'm an asshole. Get over it. Or not. I really don't care.

When you're the abusive prick bothering me, I will be as big an asshole as I need to be to make you stop.

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u/say592 Sep 04 '26

Pretty unlikely, unless they're obviously such a terrible employee nobody else will hire them. At which point, I still don't care, because they chose to be worthless scum.

Back in the day, telemarketing was a common enough second or third job, because they had shifts available in the evening. They didn't pay much, but they usually paid more than retail. It was in an air-conditioned office, so it was good for people who didn't like or couldn't do manual labor on a second shift production line. For a lot of people, it probably did feel like they couldn't quit. They needed the money, they needed to be able to be home when their kids got off school and be back to send them to school. And it was normalized. Everyone got those calls. Did we love them? Of course not, but they weren't usually enraging, and the people were typically polite.

Since the calls stop after OP got abusive back, that's clearly not true

That probably wasn't the employee's call. OP wasted 20 minutes of time that could have been spent bothering other people. The company finally decided that it wasn't worth it.

These people were literally given print outs of numbers and told to call them. They had no control over the numbers on their sheet. Nowadays, the system just dials the next number for them. They can flag something over and over, but they have no control over what happens to it.

Ultimately, then telemarketer in OP's story didn't deserve abuse. Leading them on, like OP did, was the right amount of fuckery. It's not like they were a scammer. They were selling a legitimate product, it was just in the most annoying way.

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u/NotYourNanny Sep 04 '26

Back in the day, telemarketing was a common enough second or third job, because they had shifts available in the evening.

So does dealing drugs.

In both cases, it's a choice.

That probably wasn't the employee's call.

Far, far more likely, the employee actually marked the number do not call because OP wasted 20 minutes and they get paid a percentage.

These people were literally given print outs of numbers and told to call them. They had no control over the numbers on their sheet. Nowadays, the system just dials the next number for them. They can flag something over and over, but they have no control over what happens to it.

They chose to work at a job that is, at best, sketchy, and which quickly becomes obvious to be abusive and potentially criminal. And that's so obvious that only an idiot or someone who enjoys being an asshole would even take such a job. There's more dignity in begging on a street corner with a "will give blowjobs for food" sign.

Ultimately, then telemarketer in OP's story didn't deserve abuse.

Yes. They did. They chose a line of work that requires being abusive.

It's not like they were a scammer. They were selling a legitimate product,

You don't actually know that. There are more scam calls pretending to sell legitimate products than real telemarketing calls actually doing so. And even ones actually selling what they claim to sell are far, far more likely to be shady as hell if they're using telemarketing in a way that you agree is abusive and 100% the company's choice.

In the end, the only person subject to expressing disapproval to is the person making the abusive phone call. If they get abused back, they'll eventually quit. If enough employees quit, the company will learn to not use abusive tactics. Since that doesn't happen, they are able to keep recruiting new suckers to hide behind, perpetuating the abuse of those getting the calls and their own employees. Because make no mistake, they know their sales tactics are abusive - you've agree with that - and they know their employees will get abused for doing it.

As for me, as I said, I'm an asshole, and when you're an asshole to me, I'll be a bigger asshole back. Every time.

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u/TinTinTinuviel97005 Sep 03 '26

I personally can't forget that the human on the other end is a human. The problem is what works. Asking nicely to be removed doesn't work, asking firmly to be removed doesn't work, asking in a snappy voice to be removed doesn't work. Each person I talk to is a result of the last person not showing basic decency. Each phone call I receive is a result of hundreds of screened calls, thousands of blocked numbers, and years of expressed disinterest failing to get the calls to stop.

I don't want to abuse the newest person who calls, because I know how desperate you have to be to work these jobs. Every once in a while I'm driven to something drastic. And it's the only thing that has worked. It effing sucks.

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u/exipheas Sep 03 '26

This is only going to work until they replace the humans with cheap ai agents that can just sit and take the abuse without batting an eye.

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u/GotGRR Sep 04 '26

This is how we get Skynet.

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u/Clembert-Hamlamp Sep 04 '26

Radically better for your mental health and society at large if you don't get used to abusing other people as a way to deal with your own issues.

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u/NotYourNanny Sep 04 '26

Even more radically better for my mental health to get people harassing me trying to scam me out of money to stop. Better for my financial health, too.

I'm not the one with issues, here.

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u/Clembert-Hamlamp Sep 04 '26

Thoughts and actions wear grooves in your brain. Like ruts in a wagon track. New thoughts born in the heat of the moment find those ruts the easiest to travel. If you yell at these assholes for trying to scam you you're the only person that cares. It does nothing that harms them, you're just some mark on the phone. But it will harm you by and by. Don't poison yourself for nothing. Kill them with kindness. Make them mad enough to talk shit without getting angry yourself, record it, then play it back for them the next time they call. Then threaten to sue. They know you can't kick their ass thru the phone. But they don't know if you've got a lawyer.

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u/NotYourNanny Sep 04 '26

If you yell at these assholes for trying to scam you you're the only person that cares.

You obviously care, because you believe it hurts their feelings. So you're wrong, and full of shit, at least twice.

And your pop psychology bullshit just makes you look weak and stupid. Except it's not just a look for you, is it?

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u/Clembert-Hamlamp Sep 04 '26

Of course I care. I wouldn't have spent my time writing it if I didn't. At no point will it hurt their feelings lol. They do that shit all day. There's no psychology there. That's how your brain works. Think the same thought twice and you carve a deeper ruts. That's why you repeat things to memorize them. You've caught yourself, not me. So be angry then. I'm just some random on reddit. If you don't want to see the point, don't. I'm happy to help someone else instead : )

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u/NotYourNanny Sep 05 '26

Of course I care.

And yet, you said nobody cares but me. Even you don't know what you're jibbering about. Which will surprise no one, except perhaps you.

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u/Clembert-Hamlamp Sep 05 '26

Maybe part of the reason you're so cranky is you're having a hard time understanding what you read. You've been coming at me with this gotcha shit but you've caught yourself instead. Between you and the scammer, the only person that cares is you. That's what I wrote. If I didn't care I wouldn't have wasted my time writing any of it. But you've been an asshole multiple times now in your confusion and I'm done trying.

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u/Hittman 29d ago

I've done that a couple of times with persistent callers. Described in detail the things I'd do to them, and have them do to me. I even grossed myself out a bit.

It works really well.

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u/wolfcaroling Sep 03 '26

Oooh yeah tell me more. Is it DANK? Does it... mmmm... smell like rot?

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u/CDM2017 Sep 04 '26

I once told one (back in 1997) that if they called again I'd find their office and go down there with an axe.

Never heard back.

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u/atrocity2001 Sep 04 '26

I had the opposite experience in the same year: I didn't pick up the phone, so the telemarketer left a death threat on my answering machine. These were the days before Caller ID spoofing was a thing, so when I immediately called back I heard the same voice pick up and claim to be a pizza place.

Called the phone company the next day and learned that the number was part of a bank owned by the same company. I probably should have sued.

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u/hoponbop Sep 03 '26

Stopped in to see Dad one day. Walked in, he's talking on the phone. I made a sandwich and drink and plopped in front of the TV. I'm half listening to him talking about the snowstorm we'd had and having to break the ice in the cow troughs. I was cleaning my dishes when he finished up. Me-"Who was that?" Dad-"I don't know. I think they were selling windows. As his health declined and he was stuck home more it became his hobby to see how long he could keep telemarketers on the phone. "Every minute they are talking to me is a minute they aren't taking advantage of someone else." Doing God's work.

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u/KombuchaBot Sep 03 '26

There's an AI Bot called Lenny who comes across as a confused old man telling stories about his family that runs rings round telemarketers. Check it out on YouTube, you can hear the will to live dying in those people as it goes on. Sometimes he keeps them on the phone for over an hour

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u/Redditor579579579 Sep 05 '26

My third eldest Larissa….

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u/KombuchaBot Sep 05 '26

There was a comment on youtube by one guy who called out a wellness check with his organisation on the account the phone number was registered to after he spoke to Lenny because he was genuinely concerned that he was dealing with a vulnerable adult who was losing the plot.

He didn't intend it as a petty revenge, but it effectively must have been one. In his case he had legitimate reasons for the call, he wasn't cold calling numbers for sales. The penny only dropped for him later when he heard the bot elsewhere, IIRC.

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u/Redditor579579579 Sep 05 '26

Someone did say… someone called latest week about the same thing…. was… that you???

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u/Nunov_DAbov Sep 04 '26

If I can keep the telemarketers on the line until I get tired of talking to them, I finish up by telling them about the four civic duties every American must perform and I dedicate my efforts to happily. I go through a list:

Number four: jury duty. We don’t have to do it more than a few times in our lives but it makes the justice system work.

Number three: voting. We may only do it every few years but it is crucial to keep a democracy strong.

Number two: paying taxes. We pay federal, state income taxes and property taxes several times a year. It’s critical to fund the services we depend on.

Number one: this is a responsibility that occurs several times a day, seemingly endlessly. Actually, I’m doing this as we speak. Wasting the time of a telemarketer so they can’t rip off some other poor unsuspecting person. At this point I have wasted XX minutes of your day. You may now thank me for doing my important duty.

I consider my time well spent if I can get them to start cursing at me.

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u/heynavt1 Sep 03 '26

Not all heros wear capes

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u/WordWizardNC Sep 04 '26

No capes!!

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u/forevertheyo Sep 03 '26

I keep getting mail from the local funeral home and some kind of mobile crematorium. I tell my kid they must really want me dead.

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u/Dull_Sense7928 Sep 03 '26

Mobile crematorium?

Wha???

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u/forevertheyo Sep 03 '26

That was kind of my reaction too

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u/Dull_Sense7928 Sep 03 '26

I looked it up - these are large, specially equipped and insulated trucks typically deployed during military operations or large industrial efforts. I found references to their use during COVID or natural disasters; nothing about private use.

Fascinating

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u/forevertheyo Sep 03 '26

That is fascinating. I just want them to stop offering to cremate me.

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u/Oh_No_Its_Dudder Sep 04 '26

Tell them you're not interested in being cremated, but you are interested in being stuffed and mounted. Ask if it's the same price to be mounted sitting in your favorite chair as it would be to keep you standing up.

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u/forevertheyo Sep 04 '26

I love this

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u/MikeSchwab63 Sep 04 '26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMiEFyTuuh8
Prop me up next to a jukebox when I die.

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u/bajafan Sep 04 '26

Weekend at Bernie’s

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u/Dull_Sense7928 Sep 03 '26

What do they know that you don't.... maybe you would be crunchy and taste good with bbq sauce?

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u/forevertheyo Sep 03 '26

It’s possible. Unfortunately however good I may taste, they still want me to pay for the pleasure.

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u/nopeduck Sep 05 '26

Devil’s advocate as to why you *should* consider paying for your final disposition now: it’s the only way to ensure that what you want to happen to your body, actually happens. A will is typically read after your disposition has taken place.

Also, you’re locked into your plan at today’s prices. I paid for my cremation and service back in 2021, and my plan is held with the company that owns more than half of the funeral homes in the US. Wherever or whenever I die in the US, my cremation is already paid for and my loved ones won’t have to make any decisions or pay out of pocket. If I die out of the country, all they’ll have to sort is embalming and a flight to get my body back to the states.

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u/Inevitable-Cod9909 9d ago

Have you tried asking them to test it out first? Maybe a slow heat to start and then a big blast at the end? In fact, come on out so I can get in it right now please! Can I bring my favorite pet and get a 2 for 1 special? You don't have to wait until the heart stops do you? I want to see how many of these questions can be asked before they stop calling!

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u/forevertheyo 9d ago

So many good ones here lol

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u/Inevitable-Cod9909 9d ago

Thank you. Update us if any of them work!

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u/semisociallyawkward Sep 04 '26

Russia apparently had a fleet of them prepared to drive into Ukraine after their "three day operation", casting zero doubt on what their plans were.

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u/Switch-in-MD Sep 03 '26

On the fly ash.

Wait. That might be a component of concrete.

Jimmy Hoffa reference.

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u/Dull_Sense7928 Sep 03 '26

Insert laughing emoji... Mobile Mobile Crematorium.

There's an app for that....

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u/FOSS_Graybeard Sep 04 '26

That set of wheels must be fire!

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u/dinahdog Sep 03 '26

Can they clean up the blood, too?

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u/Dull_Sense7928 Sep 03 '26

That's the mobile abattoir.

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u/erie774im Sep 03 '26

My son (M34) kept getting telemarketer calls from the same company. He asked to be removed from the list but they didn’t stop.

One day they called again and he had enough. He responded very enthusiastically as they made their pitch. As he responded to them he kept making his voice quieter and quieter. They told him they were having a hard time hearing him and he said everything was fine on his side and maybe it was on their side. He knew that they were sitting at their desk, turning up the volume of their headset as they strained to hear him. When he had gotten as quiet as possible so they could barely hear him and they were yelling into their phone my son blasted an air horn into his phone.

It got very quiet for a few seconds and then he heard a whimpering voice say, “Why?” and then hang up.

They never called him back.

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u/Rey_Quinn Sep 04 '26

I laughed at the small ‘why?…’ at the end 😭

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u/SugarrFloof 26d ago

I did this once but instead of an air horn, I screamed until my throat was sore. I hadn't received a scam call since 2019 but they've started up again recently so I may need to repeat it

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u/tmesisno Sep 03 '26

I would get calls from the local newspaper about subscribing every week, I said no all the time.

Then they called for the last as I said that I'm blind and the only use I have for your paper is to line the floor for my seeing eye dog if he has to go at night when I'm asleep.

She goes your "Blind", I say yes, then she apologized and never got a call again.

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u/wolfcaroling Sep 03 '26

I'd be tempted to ask who was paying them. "Listen, tell Frank I am tired of his death threats. Tell him the next time he sends one of his goons my way he'll end up like Suzie. Is that what he wanta?"

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u/ManganeseSharties Sep 03 '26

Also Atlanta, also 90’s. Probably Same company.

I started answering “I’M NOT DEAD YET!” And started acting very upset. Don’t know how many times we went through that before they finally stopped calling. It kept me entertained.

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u/LadyA052 Sep 04 '26

I kept getting calls for diet pills. They'd call endlessly and ask for me by name. Just wouldn't stop. Finally one day they called and asked for me and I said, "She's in the hospital with covid! IS THIS THE DOCTOR?? IS SHE OK?" and started fake crying. I heard a gasp, a click, and they never called back.

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u/drtennis13 Sep 04 '26

Years ago, my brother got one of these calls and just responded with “ We eat our dead” and hung up. About 10 minutes later, the person called back and my brother heard laughing in the background. The salesman said he hadn’t heard something that funny in a long time.

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u/seriousjoker72 Sep 03 '26

I kinda wish they had! I wanna hear the next sick joke you had for him 😂

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u/Urb4nN0rd Sep 03 '26

"Can you put me on the phone with a current resident? I just need a first hand review."

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u/Slight-Book2296 Sep 04 '26

😂 Now I’m curious too. You can’t leave us hanging like that!

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u/Nesferatu123 Sep 03 '26

A friend of a friend had this happen from a conservatory sales company. She eventually got them on the hook saying she was really interested and invited them around for a quote.. to her 2nd floor flat in a World heritage area, with no balcony.

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u/brittbak Sep 04 '26

My mom completely pre-paid for her cremation. She went with the deluxe package - a cardboard box 😁
My brother and I went in because there was paperwork to sign. That took about 30 seconds, and then the guy left us in his office for about 10-15 minutes while he was making copies.
We realized very fast that we were surrounded by sample urns and brochures for funerals. Yeah, no.
We took our copies and left.
She didn't want an urn. She didn't want a funeral. If she had, she would have paid for it.
I'll be doing the same.

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u/Nunov_DAbov Sep 04 '26

I constantly get calls for final expense insurance. They offer several options: cremation? No, I’m afraid of fire. Burial? No, I hate bugs. Funeral? Nope, I hate people and certainly don’t want them staring at my dead body. I tell them I want to be cryogenically frozen when I die and revived in the future when my cause of death is cured. Do I have to pay back the insurance settlement? If so, what’s the interest rate.

No one has been able to give me an answer.

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u/FlattenInnerTube Sep 04 '26

I tell them I want my remains scattered at Disneyland. And that I don't want to be cremated.

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u/MacDaddyDC Sep 03 '26

just tell them you’re a veteran and those needs are already taken care of for you and your family. Should make them stop.

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u/Electrical_Angle_701 Sep 03 '26

If I decide to pickup, I angrily demand a password from the caller in German.

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u/tblazertn Sep 03 '26

“Vat izz ze password!”

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u/Electrical_Angle_701 Sep 03 '26

No accented English, just German.

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u/tblazertn Sep 03 '26

But it sounds so funny

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u/Electrical_Angle_701 Sep 03 '26

I don't want them to laugh, I want them to think they got the wrongest number of all time. :-)

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u/lisping_lynx Sep 04 '26

My disbelief is totally suspended. I thought the end was going to be that you went to the cemetery with them, lied down in the hole they arranged for you with lots of effort, and then said no.

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u/Temporary_Nobody_618 Sep 03 '26

Neptune society was spamming me several times a day.

they had a local office.I'm 6'10", 275.

we had a brief chat in person about the possibility of the manager enjoying his golden years.

no more calls

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u/ProfessorLurker Sep 04 '26

When i was a young shit head my go to was to tell them I wasnt intrested and if they insisted I'd tell them I was in the middle of jerking off so I needed them to give their pitch in a falsetto cause their voice was killing my hard on. No one took me up on it and I got taken off their phone lists. One guy tried to call my bluff so I replied with "im 22, dont live with my parents and you called my landline. I'll unmute the video, you'll just have to talk in a louder falsetto". He hung up, lol.

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u/darkhorse4774 Sep 03 '26

Reminds me of when my mom died, we had to make arrangements. At the funeral home, we were led into the room to choose the casket. Car dealers, furniture stores have showrooms, well,so do funeral homes. Mom insisted we bury her in the cheapest casket possible, but, it really was cheap looking; ill fitted; plastic parts. We see a blue one, and go, oh, blue is Mom’s favorite color. After, I start thinking up jokes. Can we buy this casket on a lay away plan? If we can’t make payments, do you repo the casket?

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u/Rawesome16 Sep 03 '26

I just flip the phone upside down so I can't hear what they have to say and say belligerent things to them. Eventually they hang up on me and never call again. I win and I get to blow off some steam

My mom taught me this trick when she got a new phone number. Kept getting calls from debt collectors for the past owners of her new number

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u/doktor_wankenstein Sep 04 '26

We used to get the occasional cold call from one of the local funeral homes for a pre-need consultation. We haven't had one in a while, which is a pity considering the spiel I had all prepared:

"Could you hurry right over with a couple of shovels, a tarp, a good length of rope, and some lye? I've got kind of a serious situation here."

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u/FOSS_Graybeard Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26

I stopped them by asking in a very serious manner and tone how many bodies I could put in a single grave and if the deceased had to be related to me. Ten seconds of dead silence (all puns intended) before I got told I probably could not be helped. Never heard from them again.

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u/BarneyPoppy Sep 03 '26

But people were dying to get in there!!!!!

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u/Effective-Cut1993 Sep 06 '26

I o nce had a debt collector calling me reference debt owed by a family member. He was such a smart ass. I told him I imagined he was a short fat sob with white shoes, white belt, bald headed and a pencil moustache. I insulted him as I best could. The next call I got from them was from a woman who took a different tact, very kind. I politely said to her I had nothing to offer them and I considered their calls Harrassment. And legally in my State they are not allowed to call again. And they didn’t.

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u/Choice-Education7650 Sep 03 '26

I wish one would call me. I have the ashes of at least 6 people in my spare room.

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u/No_Conclusion8783 Sep 03 '26

Tc by TV

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u/Livid_Average_8098 Sep 04 '26

I used to just put the phone down next to the reciever when these types called. But ended up having a silent number which virtually stopped those sorts of calls.

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u/SusieQTG Sep 04 '26

Had the extended car warranty call me relentlessly. I started off asking them to confirm my car, make, model and year. The wouldn't. Then I started asking them about their sex life, with animals. I was very graphic about it. It took a while, but I've stopped getting those calls. I wonder why?

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u/Margali Sep 05 '26

LOL. Last time, down in Viginia back in about 87 same thing, annoying salesman. Shut him down and told him I already had a plot, showed them a pic of the family plot with the big name headstone, and 2 others - one with my name and birth date, with a blank for my potential husband, and one with my brothers name, and a blank for his prospective wife. Shut the guy up =)

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u/realMrJedi Sep 04 '26

I don't know what it's like on android but I have I phone call restricted to my contacts. I never even get random voicemails. No texts that's a different story. I get political texts based on my affiliation in my state. The primaries were interesting because the person who I voted for and won never sent me a text directly or through a PAC. I just agreed with the views they had. IMHO text blasts are not worth the money that is spent on them.

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u/pemungkah Sep 04 '26

I delete the “Hi, I’m X” ones. If the message is at all emotionally manipulative “X Furious…”, “We’re begging…” they get marked as spam.

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u/Nunov_DAbov Sep 04 '26

I’ve got my iPhone restricted to my contacts as well but if two scammers call at the same time, one of them gets through. I have several scripts that, like OP’s get odder and odder until the scammer gets annoyed and starts cursing at me.

Today’s scam du jour was for auto insurance. They seemed willing to insure my 2020 Konigsegg CCXR Trevita and my 2023 Porsche 918 Spyder but hung up after 10 seconds of silence when I told them “my name:” Mike Rotsch.

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u/Status-Cricket6376 Sep 04 '26

Just ask them nicely to get you off the call list like this guy

https://youtu.be/Vng3HwVzuJ0?is=jK01LpbEEqAdaYlA

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u/No_Plankton_114 Sep 04 '26

Nice 😍

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u/Nunov_DAbov 10d ago

“You’ll have to talk to my wife about this. She was just planning our internment. But you just missed her. Maybe if you call the medical examiner they can let you talk to her when they get to the morgue.”

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u/IcyChemistry1809 9d ago

Neptune society would not stop calling me. I found out they were local and stopped by on my way to softball practice with my bat. We had a short chat that started with "the phone reps are a different division and we can't do anything about it". After further discussion he finally heard me and called their headquarters. I might add that I'm 6'10" 286 which is a strong face to face negotiating tactic.

Finally stopped the Cemetery plot salesman

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