do you know how to get away from telemarketers?

Oh, come on!!! Have some fun with it... Most of the phone calls I get on home phone are telemarketers... I usually answer the phone "Dicky's abortion clinic, no fetus can beat us... Can I help you?" or "city morgue, you stab'em we slab'em. can I take your order?" I don't understand why telemarketers hang up when they hear that... One time, I saw a great thing on t.v. so I figure I'd try it out... One guy called me & tried to sell me a newspaper subscription... He threw me a simple sales pitch so I said, "no thank you... I'm not interested" He goes, "thanks for your time..." So I said, "wait, wait... That's it? What kind of effort is that? How are you gonna make a living doing a half-a** job like that? You should really put your heart into it... Why should I buy YOUR newspaper? What makes it better than all the other news paper? Come on, try it again..." About 20 seconds of pause later, he starts a long drawn out sales pitch like how better his newspaper company is & why I should take a interest in locally operated business, take a pride in supporting it... I said, "that's better... I bet you're gonna sell twice as much subscriptions then before..." He says, "So, how should I set up the billing?" So I said, "oh... I already subscribe to New York Times, thank you..." and hung up...

One of the best tricks I have found is to say *excuse me for a moment* then put the phone down on the desk. It's their call, they are paying for it, so I leave them on the line for a few moments. I then pick up the phone and if they are still there, I let them wait a while longer. I do try to be polite and pleasant but they are trained to be persistent and I feel that if they can't take no for an answer then they will just have to learn the hard way.

Yes, I think I need to reregister with them because I think they only block numbers for one year at a time. Initial telemarketing calls dont bother me too much, but when they call ove and over again when I've said no the first time that gets on my nerves.