On Monday, November 30, 2015 at 6:02:47 AM UTC-6, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Monday, November 30, 2015 at 4:32:48 AM UTC-5, Jim wrote:
On 11/30/2015 12:10 AM, Mike Duffy wrote:
On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 21:04:54 -0500, Stormin Mormon wrote:

He says "Can I get your phone number, area code first?"

Just make up a number in the 911 area code. Sometimes they don't notice.


That's awesome!

I always give them the office number of a senator or congresscritter.
I figure if Senator Pocketstuffer gets enough junk calls, maybe (s)he will do something about these abusive practices.

I just say "No, thank you" and the transaction proceeds. No abuse, no spam calls. No store is
going to prevent you from purchasing your items if you don't give them a phone number. If they
ever tried that, I'd leave the items on the counter and walk.

A lot of times the poor drone running the register is following orders and probably gets yelled at for not getting the information so I just give them fake information and they're a happy little drone. I started giving them the phone number for the police department or FBI office and I figured it would cause problems for any telepest the store gave the number to. I thought it would be fun to use social media to get a lot of people to give out the same government phone number when merchants asked for one at the register. When I was in the TCU wing here at the center, I kept getting calls from a telepest selling home security systems. Since I was stuck in bed with nothing else to do, I had some fun with them. I'd make up all sorts of information and tell them that I owned a lot of apartments and that I wanted a system for every one of them and when it came down to them asking for a credit card number, I'd answer,"What's a credit card?" When they pushed for more information, I'd tell them that the court appointed trustee handled all my money because a judge ruled that I'm incompetent and that I shouldn't handle any money while I here in the mental hospital. If they hadn't hung up by then, I'd get even more bizarre. I can't help it, I enjoy fraking with telepests.ヽ(。_°)ノ

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