Somebody really needs to invent a phone that allows you to reach through the screen and smash a broken beer bottle in the face of telemarketing shitheads. Ideally with an 'automatic' setting.
They used to call many times daily. Although of late, since I started being the one who usually ends up picking the phone up the spamwhoring calls seem to have dramatically dropped in number and frequency. Sometimes there'd be several calls within a few minutes. Those pricks are known to keep 'suckers lists' and trade such lists between their filthy little organizations.
I wonder if they also keep lists of those numbers that quite definitely won't buy from them.
I like to play along and tell them 'hey will you just hold on a minute while I look for my wallet/checkbook/card etc. will you hold the line' and then walk off and leave them hanging, waiting for a payment that will never come, whilst they bleed money to pay for the phonecall, eventually coming back, telling them exactly what I just did, before telling them to go get raped, drink bleach and die of cancer. If I'm feeling particularly friendly towards them that day and decide to be nice about it with them.
They really do not want to try for 'not nice' or catch me in a shitty mood with them. I have to confess, I've said some rather awful things to telemarketers, and a fair few times have quite obviously scared the living piss out of the buggers. There've been a few times I could almost HEAR them turning pale and shaky.