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Originally Posted by kazbates
The same goes for the incredibly annoying telemarketer calls I get all day long. We have a "Do Not Call" registry here which we are on, but we still get any number of calls each day.
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We have a national "Do Not Call" register, but it seems that the most effective control we have is that our broadband connection requires a phone number with Telstra, but we only use the broadband VOIP number with our ISP. The latter is not listed anywhere that we haven't given out, and the former is listed in the White Pages. There's no phone attached to the former - if they ring, then it just, to them, rings out.
However, the most effective means I have of dealing with phone telemarketers is to not answer the phone for any number I don't know that isn't known & expected, or friend or family (and often even then I don't answer it
). Family or friends or otherwise that don't display their number... well, they leave a message, or they don't. It's their choice.
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Originally Posted by Peverel
My Father had a way to deal with all the ones that were doing windows, and alike, for the house. He just used to ask how they dealt with Grade 1 Listed Building (in the UK that means it is historically listed and cannot be messed with). They always said 'Oh we cann't' and hung up.
My Father used to live in a very average 1980's chalet bungelow..........
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Most cold-callers here are physical callers at the front gate, trying to sell electricity or phone contracts. Our enthusiastic dogs generally discourage their eagerness to get a foot inside, and the response that "Our employer pays for all our services" (though only half true) gets rid of them anyway. However, my brother, who is a bit of a shit-stirrer, likes to tell them things like "We get all our electricity from our own private windfarm in the back yard", or "We've got hydroelectric storm gutters" or "I don't use the phone because the government is monitoring my conversations". Apparently those responses are not in the script.
Cheers,
Marc