Can you help us to get rid of a telemarketer?
10-19-2010, 04:12 PM
#41
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If you have caller ID and it shows as an 800- / 866- / or 877 Area Code, ignore it. If it's "unknown" or "private", let them leave a message.
Caller ID is for your benefit. Remember that.
If you do answer and there is no response within 2 seconds, hang up.
Tell yourself it's OK to screen your calls. It's your phone and your time.
Caller ID is for your benefit. Remember that.
If you do answer and there is no response within 2 seconds, hang up.
Tell yourself it's OK to screen your calls. It's your phone and your time.
10-19-2010, 05:00 PM
#42
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Location: Illinois
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Too bad you are a business, when this would happen at home I would just answer: Pizza Hut would you like to try our large....
Or I would say, so sorry Hubby can do that for free (if it was a household thing) they can't compete with that.
Otherwise I just kept telling them (and more rudely with each call) to quit calling.
Or I would say, so sorry Hubby can do that for free (if it was a household thing) they can't compete with that.
Otherwise I just kept telling them (and more rudely with each call) to quit calling.
10-19-2010, 06:28 PM
#43
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LOL one time (at home) I got a caller I couldn't get off the line. Explained it was supper time, was told "this will just take a minute" so I just started eating as I was listening. The raw crunchy carrots got rid of him!!
10-19-2010, 06:58 PM
#44
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Wow, these posts were all fun to read.........I politely tell them I'm really not interested but thank you for calling and if they don't hang up, then I just set the phone down on the counter and walk away.
Like someone said, it is YOUR phone and you don't have to talk to anyone that you don't want to speak with (same with the door bell, you don't have to answer it).
Like someone said, it is YOUR phone and you don't have to talk to anyone that you don't want to speak with (same with the door bell, you don't have to answer it).
10-19-2010, 07:59 PM
#46
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I look at caller id and if I don't know the number or it is an 800 or 866, I let it go to answer machine. DOn't waste my time. If you can get their address you can send a "cease and desist letter" and tell them to cease and desist in all calls to your phones. By law they stop. Works for me. I tell them I need their address to send them something and then send the letter instead. LOL. So sorry. I know they can be a pain.
10-19-2010, 09:36 PM
#47
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Originally Posted by Chasing Hawk
Do like I did....
A company was calling my business/home and asking for a certain person. I finally got fed up, gave them the number for the county jail and said she was arrested for prostitution. They stopped calling.
Contact your phone company, maybe even the sheriff.
Good luck.
A company was calling my business/home and asking for a certain person. I finally got fed up, gave them the number for the county jail and said she was arrested for prostitution. They stopped calling.
Contact your phone company, maybe even the sheriff.
Good luck.
10-19-2010, 09:42 PM
#48
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Originally Posted by Lostn51
I used to have them folks calling here all the time and I broke them one day. They called I answered and while they were talking I set the phone own under my drag car next to the headers and cranked it up and let it run for a minute goosing it here and there. After about three times like that they quit calling.
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10-19-2010, 09:56 PM
#49
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Although I am not a business, I got two call's the other day from some political person. When the caller asked if I had a minute to answer a few questions I said sure. (I was feeling pretty feisty that day and wanted to mess with them).
He asked something about how did I feel about President Obamas so and so, I said, "Who is that'? He obviously turned to his cronies in the office and said, "Hey, I have a lady on the phone who doesn't know who Obama is. Boy am I gonna have fun with her" at which time I laughed and hung up. Never got a call back.
The other one asked me if I had time to answer a few questions and first asked me if I would be voting Democrat or Rebublican in the upcoming election. I said, "Is this an election year"? He apologized for bothering me and said to have a nice day.
Since you are a business, it is rather tricky, but seems to me you are being harassed and as such, can complain to the Attorney Generals office in the state they are calling from. You just have to ask a few well placed and stated questions to get the information from them.
He asked something about how did I feel about President Obamas so and so, I said, "Who is that'? He obviously turned to his cronies in the office and said, "Hey, I have a lady on the phone who doesn't know who Obama is. Boy am I gonna have fun with her" at which time I laughed and hung up. Never got a call back.
The other one asked me if I had time to answer a few questions and first asked me if I would be voting Democrat or Rebublican in the upcoming election. I said, "Is this an election year"? He apologized for bothering me and said to have a nice day.
Since you are a business, it is rather tricky, but seems to me you are being harassed and as such, can complain to the Attorney Generals office in the state they are calling from. You just have to ask a few well placed and stated questions to get the information from them.
10-20-2010, 01:51 AM
#50
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There is a national no call list that you can put your phone # on. Then if they call you , you can report them and they will be fined. You can find the info on the internet. I live in Missouri and we have a state one also. I did this and now I don't get all the calls. Only ones I get now are political and I don't answer them. Have caller ID.
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