By Anonymous - 28/04/2013 13:57 - China - Shanghai

Today, for the third time this week, a telemarketer called me. Seriously annoyed, I told him in German that I don't speak English, in an attempt to get rid of him. He then started delivering his product pitch in German. FML
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Same thing different taste

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OhDearBetrayal 25

See that's why it helps to know an indigenous language.

Why didn't you just hang up instantly like a normal person?

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Speak japaneese its hard to learn less likely someone will know it

That's one persistent telemarketer! He must be pretty skilled, being fluent in German (unless he is German but I doubt it since OP's in China), I wonder how many other languages he's fluent in? He seems seriously under-employed, he should probably be an interpreter or in another career that requires fluency in multiple languages. Poor guy, being a telemarketer sounds horrible; you're always being rejected and hung-up on, it can't be fun to provide a service that no one wants. I've always been surprised they still have human telemarketers; most phone calls that don't require human interaction are recordings or are messages from a computer.

That's not an FML. That's this weeks "telemarketer FTW"

Pretend to go along with whatever they're trying to sell you and then, when they start asking for personal details, say, "Wait, I've just thought of something that might be a problem... I don't have a phone." They will either hang up, or you get to enjoy the sound of their brains imploding as they try and figure out what to say to you.

I like how it says Shanghai, China as the location. For someone speaking German I wouldn't have expected them to be there.

If hes that commites to telling you about his product maybe you should have listened to him out of kindness and becuase you already lied to him.

As a telemarketer, I get it. The calls are annoying. You're just as annoyed receiving them as myself trying to make them. Just tell them you're not interested and hang up. It doesn't waste nearly as much time.

Um...just hang up? Or don’t answer unless it’s someone you know?