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| IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6233 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 9 of 35 20 May 2012 at 10:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Can't you just hang up on the phone?
You don't have to get a telemarketer to agree to end the phone call. Or do you mean like people in person when you are walking down the street and they walk up to you and start trying to sell you crap? Just ignore them and keep walking. I know it's hard sometimes. Some of them are really charismatic and good at frame control and you feel obligated to follow social norms and have a discussion with them. You don't have to, man. Have the stronger frame. Or just say "I'm not interested." 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6393 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 10 of 35 20 May 2012 at 10:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
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| ling Diglot Groupie Taiwan Joined 4382 days ago 61 posts - 94 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Indonesian, Thai | Message 11 of 35 21 May 2012 at 1:13am | IP Logged | |||||
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In Taiwan, if I get a spam/scam phonecall, I just respond in English. That scares them away.
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| zerrubabbel Senior Member United States Joined 4396 days ago 232 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Mandarin | Message 12 of 35 21 May 2012 at 1:40am | IP Logged | |||||
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Most people know I am studying Japanese, and that I will often pick up the phone and say
"Moshi Moshi" therefore, people who know its me, will stay on and say hi, and anyone who calls and dosnt know me and will just hang up... it makes a good password 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4862 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish | Message 13 of 35 21 May 2012 at 1:53am | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, yes of course! Although another Slavic-speaking country may be the ideal situation as you could get your point across so you're understood (if angry or don't want to be bothered) and still feel safe that the other person would be too intimidated to continue talking to you! (except maybe in Macedonia) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5651 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese | Message 14 of 35 21 May 2012 at 4:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
I don't think you understand anything about the situation here. Telemarketers and salesmen here are remarkably persistent. Even with you tried walk away from one salesman, there is another one down the street and block your way in order to sell their products. For telemarketers, if you just hang up, they will just call and call. Even if they give up for today, they will call again another day(as experience shows) and replying that you are not interested actually encourages them to call in the future. There are attempts to stop these harassment by calling the police and arresting the culprits, but the police can't do anything because the culprits are in overseas. I suppose the FBI does a better job than the local police here, so you do not encounter this issue. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| eggcluck Senior Member China Joined 4497 days ago 168 posts - 278 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 15 of 35 21 May 2012 at 7:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I would have to conquer with QiuJP. I have gotten relentless spam at 4:00 am.
There has even been insatances where a "salesmen" simply just tries to physically drag you into some shady back alley shop somewhere ^^ One was so persistant it took me 3 months of "no" and physically pushing back before he finally gave up. Sadly any attempt at using any other language has had no effect, they have come prepared with all kinds of pictures at the ready ^^. The worst ones are the ones that grab your leg and then sit on the floor, refusing to let go. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Skai Newbie United States Joined 4423 days ago 6 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Mandarin | Message 16 of 35 21 May 2012 at 10:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When in America, I would suggest a string of angry German or complicated Arabic. I can't
think of any American who wouldn't remove themselves that kind of situation. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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