Posted on 01/03/2013 7:29:53 AM PST by Mamzelle
I need to keep my land line, but I'm about ready to turn the ringer off which means real calls won't get my attention. This all really started at the change of the year, and may have something to do with the small political donations. Maybe. I don't know. But it starts in the morning and ends in the early evening. One is particular is GE Capital and I do absolutely no business with them.
I went throught the "don't call" years ago.
Anyone else experiencing this?
Someone interrupts YOUR life by calling YOUR phone, on YOUR line, in YOUR home, on YOUR time, to do THEIR business and YOU are worried about being rude?!?!?!
Do not call list is as effective
as the do not rob list for banks.
Cancel the land line. Get an iPhone ,
Jailbreak it, then install iblacklist.
I’m stuck using iPhone until some one comes up with a comparable app for android.
If you can find an old fax machine record a tone sequence onto your phone and play it back to your answering machine message.
Get an answering machine. Solicitors generally won’t leave a message. Turn off your ringer. Check your answering machine according to the importance you place on phone calls. I generally just erase them every few months so the memory full light goes off.
Had this problem....anyone that really knows me calls the cell.
When I had the landline, I also had an answering machine. I told any friends/relatives that, if they called, to say something when it answered, because I would not pick up otherwise.
I used the answering machine as a filter. It worked pretty well.
My worst offender was MY telephone company. During a 4-day period, I got 4 sales calls from them. One caller even called twice, because I recognized his voice. I called the Customer Service number and chewed them out. I told the agent I was on DO NOT CALL — and that meant THE PHONE COMPANY too. She removed me from the ‘active’ list.
I now use a pre-paid cell phone exclusively. I occasionally get a sales call or text ad. Frequently, if I do not recognize the number or area code, I select IGNORE.
We had two persistent callers that we had no clue what business they were with. I made a note of the numbers and started answering in German. That ended the calls after the second episode.
Land line? I’m on the cell phone Do Not Call list and I get 2-4 junk calls every day.
YES
Press # once, then immediately press # again and HOLD. The caller will receive a loud ringing in their ear, and if it is a Robo call will be broken at once.
Just keep it up until they give up.
My wife updates our “do not call” list at least every other month — when we start getting calls again.
She also tells them that we live in a “Do Not Call State” and requests that we be removed from call lists. Since you can put as many as 3 numbers on the do not call request each time, she also puts our cell numbers on it.
The telemarketing calls stop immediately. I think the web site is
donotcall.gov
Even though the web site says this is a permanent “fix” don’t believe it. It needs renewing regularly. But it does work.
She also has a web site somewhere that you can put your address on and it will slow down the junk mail you receive.
You do need to know, though, that if you respond to any of those requests for “votes” — whether on the air or by phone, we’re told that you create the “significant” relationship such that advertisers on the web site that’s requesting you to vote can get at you if you put your phone number into the fill-in of personal information. That means, if I interpret it right, that any advertiser with whom you have a “significant” relationship can keep calling you and they are within their “rights” to bug (call) you.
Haven’t been able to verify that last part though, but we don’t participate in those online polls anyway.
That video is absolutely hilarious! Loved it. TFS
Hire Tom Mabe?
Try plugging this recording in your answering machine, LOL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-yU5Ekv14U&feature=related
When I had the landline, some times I would say, ‘Hold on a minute ... ‘
Put the phone down and walk away. Eventually, I would hear the ‘phone off the hook’ tone and hang up the receiver.
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Other times, as soon as they started their sales spiel, I would interrupt with “not interesting, thank you, bye” and hang up before they could continue.
I went throught the “don’t call” years ago.
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I think DNC has to be renewed every so many years. Not sure but maybe someone else knows.
Glad you enjoyed it!
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