You know, since I got Vonage, they've never bugged me. I think they can't find me. ;)
They haven't been bothering me low-powered T-Mobile cell phone number, either. I DO have both on the U.S. do not call list. Once you put your name on that, marketers can't call you, except under certain circumstances. They can call you if you've done business with their company in the past two years. Also, certain categories are exempt from the law. Political campaigns can call you, and market/ opinion research people can call you. Usually if you ask to be put on their own do not call lists they will comply. There is actually a very simple way of dealing with them, unless you actually enjoy picking up the phone and trying to give them indigestion, which will really do more to give you indigestion, since they have a job to do and thick skins. I know as I've been them. Anyone who can't handle being yelled at by people has a different job. Some of them ARE forbidden to hang up on you, though, so they'll sit there and listen to you cuss for as long as you wish to waste your breath. And ESPECIALLY, don't trouble calling back to yell at who whose number you don't recognize called your phone. LOL! Honestly! If you don't want to be bothered, don't answer the phone, and don't be bothered! Get caller ID, and then don't pick up the phone if you don't know who's calling. If they've a legitimate reason to call you, they'll leave a message on your voice mail, and you can call them back, and thereafter you'll know who they are. My cell phone tells me who people are by name if I have them in my address book. Dora -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Malvary Cole Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 8:24 AM To: Linda Walton; Lace Chat Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Warning 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. To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
