Posted on 09/04/2011 6:31:38 PM PDT by Graybeard58
Finally, she went to Verizon, where they told her there was nothing they could do about it except after looking at the call log, they agreed to change her number for free, normally there's a charge for that.
I wanted to look up the S.O.B. responsible for it and choke him/her to death but had no way of finding the responsible party.
my buddy keeps a compressed air “boat horn” near his phone for calls like this
We can send a man to the moon but we can't stop those F%$#@G telemarketers. (Yes I'm on the do no call list)
I have em call looking for someone, and then tell my I was lying when I told them they had the wrong person.
Some threats to sue them got them to stop.
I only answer calls from people I know. Anyone else gets voice mail, which I can delete with a push of a button. If they want to waste their time calling me, I don’t really care. Not a big problem, but I do have one that continues to call looking for someone whose name I have never heard of.
When a real person finally called me I told the guy that I had this number for years and never heard of the other guy. The phone calls stopped. I was getting 2 robo call every week for months.
**my buddy keeps a compressed air “boat horn” near his phone for calls like this**
dunno if it actually does anything, but it sure brings a smile to my face... I’ve used them on salesmen or collectors for years!!!
With the technology we have today they still can’t allow you to BLOCK numbers??
I usually tell them to hang on - then set the phone down and never come back
That’s why I never answer any restricted or unlisted phone number and just let it go to the message machine.
Bill collectors are generally the lowest of the low. yes I consider them even worse than someone who cannot pay their bills.
They don’t care who pays the bill, only that they get paid.
The key is to make it a waste of time or expensive to call you. Filing complaints against them, dragging out the phone calls, or otherwise making it difficult are ways to get them to call the right person.
The technology easily exists to block numbers. The phone companies won’t use it.
That’s almost as good as saying hold then setting the phone down for 5 minutes.
Research on this debt firm and the billing-firm shows that this is a common issue (fraud).
BTW, as much as I dislike lawyers under normal circumstances, we have used this insurance a couple of times just to understand what the law actually was and have more than recovered what we have paid in to them. Like the time we got an illegal threatening letter from the sheriff, threatening to throw me in jail if I didn't pay a fine that wasn't mine. Nice to get stuff like that out of the blue. Nice to see the clown back down when a law firm called him.
Time Warner has a system that allows you to block up to 30 numbers.
My BIL started getting these calls. After they announced the purpose of the call he would ask them if they were wearing underwear! It must have startled them as they stopped calling him. I swear he said he did this and it worked. LOL.
The worst for me has been recent when I got back to the states and had to get a phone number. The phone number they gave me happened to be a guy who disappeared off the face of the Earth and owes money to EVERYONE! I have gotten so frustrated hearing......please stay on the phone, this is a debt collector.....or whatever they are saying. I wanted to scream. Finally, after just hanging up millions of times, I decided to take the time to talk with all the folks who called and got them to take me off the list as the “loser” who owned this phone number before me is not here. It took some time but it was worth it. Some of those calls I was on hold for 20 minutes.....it was crazy. Now I only rarely get a call from someone asking about the dead beat.
I use a toddler, they love to talk just as much as a telemarketer. I dish the phone off to one of them and 1.5 minutes later the kid brings me the phone with no one on the other end. LOL
That does no good at all. The phone company has a built-in level control that prevents someone's hearing to be affected by loud sounds. So, while your friend gets some kind of psychic satisfaction, the party at the other end is not affected.
I thought that was against the law.
I seem to remember hearing about a woman who was sued by an obscene phone caller when she broke his eardrum with a police whistle.
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