Linda wrote: .... - does anyone else have any schemes that have worked?
I'd really like to know!
One thing I've found works (sometimes) is asking to be put on their 'do not
call' list. We are able to register our phone numbers to a government 'do
not call' list and I always ask them WHERE they are calling from (not what
company) and if they are in Canada, I point out that they are contravening
the law and if they want to continue with the call that is fine, but I'll
have to report them and get them prosecuted. They usually apologise for
calling and hang up (we are quite polite in Canada!).
If the call is from the U.S. then that threat doesn't work, so I ask if they
have a do not call list to put my number on. If not, then I ask them to
hang on because there is someone at the door. Going back to them sometime
later they've usually gone or if not, they are not getting very far with
their marketing do I tell them they need to get another job because they are
failing miserably at the one they've got. Then I hang up. One time I told
the guy there was someone at the door and when I came back to the phone a
few minutes later he was still going through his patter, so I put the phone
down again. After 10 minutes, I spoke and asked if he could repeat what he
had said because I'd not heard a word because I'd been to the door and then
had to go to the bathroom. He hung up!
Malvary in Ottawa, where we have had 2 days of storms - freezing rain and
snow - and the city ploughed the side street and mine and dumped everything
on the sidewalk along the front of my house. The sidewalk plough has cut a
path through and the end of my drive now has a 3ft high and about 4ft wide
pile at the end of my drive, so I'm not going anywhere for a while. It is
also -20 with a windchill of -31.
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