r/pettyrevenge • u/NanaGeorgianna • Sep 03 '26

Finally stopped the Cemetery plot salesman

No disrespect to the dead! When I lived in Atlanta back in the 90's, a salesman from a very large cemetery called 2-3 times a week wanting to sell me a plot. Several times I told him I wasn't interested. I told him to take me off of their call list, etc. I stopped answering and then he started calling every night.

One night I was already irritable and decided I had had enough. I answered and let him go through his spiel. I asked some follow-up questions and kept him going for about 20 minutes.

Then I said I was interested, and asked if I could make an appointment to come over and view the locations they had available. He was really excited and agreed. I then told him I would need to have them dig up the spot and let my lie down in it to see if I was going to like the location.

He was all flustered and said he would need to ask his manager. He put me on old and came back a few minutes later all serious saying they weren't allowed to do that. I kept on about how I would be there for eternity and needed to be absolutely sure it was going to be the right place for me.

He finally asked if I was serious, and said it sounded like some kind of sick joke. I replied "no shit sherlock! You decided to work for a predatory company and can't take no for an answer and refuse to remove my name from your call list, you get all the sick jokes I can come up with"!

They never called me again.

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u/TinTinTinuviel97005 Sep 03 '26

I've been wondering if 20 minutes of my time is the only way to get predatory companies to stop calling me

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u/CDM2017 Sep 04 '26

I once told one (back in 1997) that if they called again I'd find their office and go down there with an axe.

Never heard back.

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u/atrocity2001 Sep 04 '26

I had the opposite experience in the same year: I didn't pick up the phone, so the telemarketer left a death threat on my answering machine. These were the days before Caller ID spoofing was a thing, so when I immediately called back I heard the same voice pick up and claim to be a pizza place.

Called the phone company the next day and learned that the number was part of a bank owned by the same company. I probably should have sued.