Fed up with sales calls?

fretmeister

A nice response

http://www.tickld.com/x/the-best-phone-call-ever

I hope it's real.

Roland

Is it true that after three calls it classifies as harassment under the UK Telecommunications Act? That's what I tell repeat callers, and it seems to stop them calling.

Fretwired

This is good .. and it's real ...

strumjoughlamps

I now let them pitch the reason for phoning me and then I pitch my work to them by asking them if they need some updated corporate pics or do they know anyone in the office getting married.. when they decline so do I.

guitarcookie1

Recently I've had success with quoting them my hourly rate to continue with the conversation, tweeting them to stop hounding me & the old fashioned approach - telling them to fook off...

Nitefly

Caller-ID - if I don't recognise the number, I don't answer.

ThorpyFX

I've started mooing down the phone like a cow. it amuses me no end

RobDavies

With the exception of my Mum or Dad, no-one phones our land line apart from telemarketing companies etc.  Therefore I let the kids answer the phone and put on stupid accents etc.   

My ten year old recently told someone from BT that they couldn't talk to his Dad because he was in prison for chopping up bodies with an axe.

mike_l

A few years ago I had a complete helmet phone (literally everynight) to try to sell me shares.

I was polite at first, but in the end I simply said "I haven't got the money to buy shares" I got aske "Why did you keep asking me to phone tomorrow" "I didn't. I was trying to politely tell you to fuck off".

chillidoggy

Was anyone else trying to envisage what a 'helmet phone' looked like?

breakstuff

There you go @chillidoggy

Axe_meister

The problem for we is all of these bloody automated calls.

We always have our answer phone on to screen calls. 99% are automated messages about PP bloody I.

Or You had an accident.

grrrrrr