Posted on 02/06/2018 1:18:28 PM PST by huckfillary
Let's face it, nobody but my mother-in-law likes phone solicitors. She'll talk to them for hours and the Jehovah's Witnesses that knock on her door every Saturday morning. She once hung up on my wife because the Jehovah's witnesses were knocking on the door.
But this is mostly about handling phone solicitors. The phone rings. You know immediately it's a solicitor.
Homeowner: This is Chief Inspector Flanagan from Homicide. You've called in the middle of a crime scene investigation. The homeowner was found dead a short while ago. But while you're on the phone, let me ask you some questions about your relationship with the deceased.
In no time at all, the solicitor will have hung up.
So does mine. 😀 I would suspect, that yours speaks Bisaya as well, being from this neck of the woods. 👍
Most of those calls I get are still from real people.
Most of them are small contractors trying to sell me home repairs or a remodel on a house I haven’t lived in for 7 years.
They are always local to my old address, I just tell them to check the area code on the number they called.
They look and say 530, I ask them what their area code is and it is usually 213, 714, or 562.
I politely tell them that I am 647 miles away from the house they want to work on, and please remove my number from their calling list.
They are pretty good about it.
The self-righteous never seem to notice, either.
YEP: I have had a go around with the red neck myself.
Just wish the idiot had picked a different screen name, because I am a REDNECK.
😄😁😆
I get calls from collectors as a result of the utility co screwing up when I moved 2 years ago.I’ve told them that just because they say I owe them doesn’t make it so. Threats about my credit rating simply don’t matter to me since I pay cash or don’t buy stuff.
Nonetheless, they ask for so and so and I indignantly and in my most irritated voice, which my wife says is very off putting and intimidating, demand to know who is calling, who is it they are looking for and why. When they ID themselves and say they are calling for so and so I say, never heard of him you are bothering me! By the time the very short,terse and one sided conversation ends they have apologised and taken my number off their list. I tell them it is rude to call someone and not identify yourself first. Things go quiet for months and then I guess someone else buys the account to try it again.
Telemarketers i just yell at since my lawyer told me it isn’t legal to ask for their number and tell them I will track them down and break their legs. Some kind of federal offense or something is involved.
I notice that many places are using computers to call....Frustrating even more. It does take awhile for the computer to begin their BS....I usually hang up right when they start the message. I think I hate that more then a human trying to sell something....at least they are working even though I do given them a time sometimes.
I have a friend who would hand the phone to her mother who has Alzheimer’s. After 10 or 15 minutes, the caller would hang up. Mom enjoyed talking to people so it was a win-win.
i don’t get junk calls anymore. unless a number is white listed, the caller has to Press 1 to get through. This stops 100% of robocallers. Blacklisted numbers don’t even get that far: they get the “this number is no longer in service” message and tone.
+1
Very few strangers leave messages.
Love it!
for later
Fer sher ....
“Telemarketers i just yell at since my lawyer told me it isn’t legal to ask for their number and tell them I will track them down and break their legs. Some kind of federal offense or something is involved.”
Yep, that was hilarious.
I interrupt their spiel to ask them who they’re representing and then keep interrupting to ask other questions - they get flustered because it’s like wasting their time instead of them wasting my time - then I tell them to text me their number and I’ll get back with them, just before I disconnect.
“I have a friend who would hand the phone to her mother who has Alzheimer’s. After 10 or 15 minutes, the caller would hang up. Mom enjoyed talking to people so it was a win-win.”
I’ll remember that idea. Perfect solution all the way around.
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