How do you end the phone call with telemarketers?

Great question!

If they're not letting me go, I just hang up.
Other times I will be more polite and first say, "Bye-bye" and then hang up.

I have been tempted to do stupid things, like tell them that there's a fire in my oven, and I have to go put it out.
Or even just start talking to them in jibberish so that they have no idea what I'm saying and they'll end up hanging up first - but I have never tried that.

We recently got on the Do-Not-Call list so that has drastically reduced the amount of calls we get.

they are so annoying

OH i just love these guy's, i usually tell them to hold on, i have my wife tied up in the basement and she's screaming because she's getting hungry and i dont want her alerting the neighbors, then when their listening real close i blast one of those football game air horns in the phone. Now i dont do it to all of them, just the ones that keep blabbering on and wont let ya get off without hanging up, hmmm wonder why they dont call back. huh what huh what i cant hear you.

I usually ask them who they want to speak to, then they'll either give me a name or say something like they want to speak to the house owner, so I say "Hold on a minute, I'll get him/her", then I put the phone down on the table, leaving it off the hook, leaving them hanging on in mid-air - then I just get on with whatever I was doing when the phone rang. They soon get fed up with holding on, and it's going on their phone bill too.

I usually never even began it. I rarely receive calls from telemarketers on my phone, and if I do, I will see it on the caller ID and let the answering machine handle my dirty work.

I don't get many anymore but it would depend on my mood at that moment. If I'm in a good mood I would let them talk then say thank you but I'm not interested. If they continued I would say I said I'm not interested and now I'm handing up. If I'm in a bad mood I just hang up.

I used to actually listen to what some of them had to say and politely tell them i am not interested however they are very persistant and rude about it so its got to the point where i just hang up instantly!

hi valentinesdiner well I had one that would not give up and I was cooking something on the stove, so I just yelled, oh myG. my roast's on fire.gotta go.bye. and I hung up. okay he he he h e.
well it worked and yes the roast actually was a bit brown too so not really lieing there at all.

I usually do not even answer the phone if i do not recognize the number on the caller Id. That way i do not have to deal with them.

I have this problem as there are lots of people from different companys that you get,i get the window people then the phone contract people then you get the charity people i tell them i am not interested and then if they do not get that hint i get to the stage of saying no,no,no that seems to work very well.If it do not work then i put the phone down.