What's your favourite way of getting rid of cold-callers?!
Question: When they ask to speak to Mrs K (me!) I usually say, hold on a minute, I'll just get her and then just leave them hanging on the phone while I go back to watching TV! They soon get the message!
Answers: When they ask to speak to Mrs K (me!) I usually say, hold on a minute, I'll just get her and then just leave them hanging on the phone while I go back to watching TV! They soon get the message!
I've done that and used a whistle to blow into the phone as well. I just got two sales calls from cell numbers at my office just now and they are those annoying recorded messages!
I have a great way to get rid of your junk mail, take the postage paid envelope and stuff it with other junk mail and send it back to them. Let them throw it out and pay for it.
Pretty much the same as you, they can be so annoying.
I do the same
I hang up the phone.
They're only trying to do a job, do you suppose they enjoy it or want to be doing it? Why not get at the moronic marketeers that employ them?
EDIT - Once again, in repsonse to your edit directed at me, it is not up to the phone operators who they call or when. The decision to bother you is made by those that employ these people, people who are just trying to earn a living.
EDIT - It is possible to be courteous in telling someone you don't wish to speak to them. Of course, you are well within your rights to refuse their call, but courtesy costs nothing at all. They do not deserve to be the subject of poor manners, given that they are being told who to call, by a selfish, money-grubbiong organisation, whom they work for. They are polite to you, so such a gesture should be returned. After all, you do not know who they are and why they are doing the job they do. You could therefore be terribly insulting to someone who is trying to earn some money to feed their children or look after a sick relative - who knows? And becuase you don't know, your default response should be courtesy.
EDIT - Fair enough Choclover, but perhaps you should be annoyed at those who employ them - go by the old adage 'Don't shoot the messenger'.
i just say could you kindly sod off and stop calling me now bye bye
I just say i am renting the place. I like your idea though that sounds fun. i will have to try that one.
I have a conversation with them and keep asking them questions like 'what car do you drive?', etc. Basically I bore the sh!t out of them then say 'thanks for the chat' and hang up.
I enjoy trying to do trades with them and sell them things or pretend I think they are a friend pretending to be a cold caller!
cc - Hello is that Miss Button?
Me - Yes
cc - Hi Its Kate calling from blah
Me - I know that voice anywhere thats u Mel, stop pretending
Gets so funny as u carry on
I have a favourite one which is to say to them,I'm very interested in your call but right now I'm waiting on a very important call,can I have your phone number and I'll ring you back.Of course this is always answered with "I'm sorry I cannot give out a personal phone number" to which I reply "well how the hell do you think I feel,I never gave you my personal phone number in fact it's bloody ex directory" ........then I hang up !!
I do pretty much the same thing... Just put the phone down but don't hang up.
Just tell them I don't want it or I have got it!!
i turn the tables and sell them Amway products
I'm ex-directory too.But when hubby has looked for insurance quotes (for example) online, and foolishly given our number, they keep phoning.I let them keep talking to themselves if they don't take no for an answer, gently rest the phone on the desk, and walk off.I come back and hang up when the phone makes that awful siren noise.:o) I can get up to answer the phone fast (ill health), so a sales call can be annoying.
I put my 9 year old son on the phone. He can talk the hind legs off a donkey! I get him to explain to them the ins and outs of his Star Wars Playstation Game.
I keep getting the automated ones, the recorded messages, you can't tell them to F. Off, all you can do is put the phone down, and you can guarantee the phone will ring just as I've gone to the loo!
Knit them a warm jumper.
Two sweet words: One of them is "Off !" and the other isn't ! -
Lol...that's pretty much what I do.....just leave em hanging!
i just shut the door if they phone i just hang up the phone
I usually ask for a phone number to call them back at in which case they keep talking then I set the phone down & tell my dog to sing ?