Cotty wrote: > You guys are all nuts. I answer any phone call I get, mobile > or landline. Unsolicited canvassing calls amount to probably > less than half a dozen a year. We get / make many calls to / > from friends and relatives. Call me old-fashioned, but > chatting using voice is still my preferred method of > communication with fellow humans.....
I answer all the calls I get* and I get at least two canvassing calls a day on average. It's got to the stage that when I don't recognise someone's voice I automatically ask if they're trying to sell me something. Once or twice a year I'm pleasantly surprised with it not being a cold call. We also get a lot of doorstep calls - although I expect this is a living in London thing which puts us above the national average on both types of caller. * Assuming you get to it in time. I've set the answer 'phone to a long wait before cutting in to allow me to get to the 'phone and I normally stop what I'm doing immediately if there is a knock at the door, but you'd be surprised how many won't wait even a few seconds for a reply. Why bother at all? Malcolm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
