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I get several calls a week....."Hello this is "AT&T" or something from Yellow pages......and we just want to verify your imformation! This goes on and on every week. What are they doing? How do you get them to stop calling? I tell them to stop calling.
[ January 24, 2011, 11:41 AM: Message edited by: John Arnott ]
-------------------- John Arnott El Cajon CA 619 596-9989 signgraphics1@aol.com http://www.signgraphics1.com Posts: 1443 | From: El Cajon CA usa | Registered: Dec 1998
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I shouldn't even admit that I do this - but when I see a number that is not familiar (they often originate in the states so we can almost recognize the call as a telemarketer) - I answer the phone like some old european grandmother, and I say, "Yaaaahhh" with a high pitched, loud, annoying voice - when they ask for one of us, I say "She/He died, you no call again!!" (still in that voice) in the rudest, loudest manner I can. And do you know the number of telemarketer calls has dropped off by about 90%! I'm pretty happy about that! It's workin' for me!
-------------------- Lori Wilcox Tabby Ink Hinton, Alberta Canada Ph 780-865-4305 Posts: 306 | From: Hinton, Alberta, Canada | Registered: Aug 2007
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Ask them for their phone number and tell you will call them back. Then say if I can't call you I can't trust you...
-------------------- Jack Wills Studio Design Works 1465 E.Hidalgo Circle Nye Beach / Newport, OR Posts: 2914 | From: Rocklin, CA. USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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I've adopted the practice of answering the phone with a sort of unidentifiable grunt that cd be anything. Then, if the caller sounds respectable, I revert to my normal highly civilized telephone manner. If not, I try to imitate a Cantonese accent, a particularly annoying language which you hear a lot of in San Francisco, usually spoken in a loud voice. It's a hard one to impersonate, tho, and I'm still working on it.
-------------------- dennis kiernan independent artist san francisco, calif, usa Posts: 907 | From: san francisco, ca usa | Registered: Feb 2010
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Caller ID, junk calls I just let ring & ring till the answering machine picks up. I figure that wastes enuf of their time so 3 or 4 people down the line won't be bothered. I dont think the donotcall list works for businesses
-------------------- Eric Elmgren ericsignguy@comcast.net A & E Graphic Signs Park Ridge, IL "The future isn't what it used to be" -Yogi Berra Posts: 192 | From: PARK RIDGE, ILLINOIS | Registered: Aug 2009
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