Please hold for an important message from......

[Tripper11]

fill in the blank.

Do you ever get these calls? I just got yet another one, usually several a week. The phone rings, I answer, there is a delay, and then a recording comes on and tells me to wait!?!!?!?!
Why in the fuck should stay on hold because a machine told me to and try and have shit sold to me?

Is this a way around for the telemarketers and the no calls thing? Just curious how many others here get these ludicrous calls?

[TrogL]

1. the police.

I'm on a callout list if there's a big problem (tornado, flood, missing person).

[Tripper11]

The one I just got was...

from Comcast..there are others, but as soon as I hear the machine I hang up.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

12. Yeah, why do they even think that works?

Everyone I know will just hang up if they hear a recording on the other end when they pick it up. Do you know anyone who would sit and listen? That's retarded. Unless I'm holding for someone famous or for Bill Clinton live and personal, I'm hanging up.
Duckie

[Lars39]

2. Stay on the line and wait until they give out the toll-free # to call.

Call the number and ask to be put on the No Call list. I just did this 2 minutes ago. Should have done it much sooner.

[Tripper11]

3. I will next time..

I just get pissed about it....the gall to call me and put me on hold..I mean really!!!! :mad:

[Lars39]

10. I get a weird one every once in a while...

It's a recording and the only thing they say is, "Sorry, wrong number". Now what in the heck is that about?

[Tripper11]

13. Ashcroft checking in! LOL n/t

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. If it's telemarketers , it's illegal

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They only have a few seconds to identify the company and what their product is . .

and "on-line" time is precious to them, so I doubt it is telemarketers,

at least not any of the larger companies anyways. . .

[VOX]

5. I've been getting these calls this week!

The phone rings 2, 3 times a day with these calls -- you pick up, and get a split-second of dead air, then a voice message says "Please hold, all of our representatives are busy." :shrug:

I'm behind the times right nows -- I don't have caller ID, so I do not know the source of the calls. But next time it happens, I AM gonna hold and see who the hell it is.

[arwalden]

6. "We figure if you're STUPID enough to actually hold...

... you're STUPID enough to believe anything we tell you and you'll probably buy it too."

-- Allen

[Tripper11]

7. After I realized what was happening...

it just stunned me, and yes, Allen, I agree that they think if you are stupid enough that your credit card number will just roll out of your mouth.
it still stuns me though.

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. GMAC used to do this all the time...as if one is going to wait to

hear that they are delinquent on their account. :eyes:

[MissMillie]

9. pet peeve

If someone's going to interrupt my day by making my phone ring, they have no right to ask me to "hold".

Be ready to speak to me when you call.... or I hang up.

[Tripper11]

11. Exactly...it can't be that important!

If you need to me to listen to muzak while some idiot finishes another call trying to sell me some crap I don;t want or need.