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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 183687" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I remember reading a MAD magazine article on things to do with unwanted telephone solicitors.</p><p>Some of these are illegal (now) such as blowing a whistle down the phone line. But you can always do other things like hand the phone to the baby. Another one was to draw up a chart of who has rung, and have a stopwatch handy. You say to the person, "Oh, no! The pot is boiling over!"and drop the phone onto the kitchen bench. Then start the stopwatch and wait until you hear the CLICK that means they finally gave up and hung up.</p><p></p><p>The thing I do now - I hope it could work for you - I ask to be removed from their database. We now have a "do not call" register in Australia. This doesn't stop calls from organisations you're a member of, or companies you're a customer of, but it should stop marketing calls and random sales calls. It won't stop calls from companies tat use a random dialler but we do have the capacity to make complaints against such companies - I had one a few weeks ago which was ringing my mobile phone every hour, hanging up after less than one ring. One day I was able to answer it and amazingly, this time there was a person on the other end. I told that person that I had already filed complaints of harassment because all the calls had made me afraid that I was being stalked. As a result, I did not want to have anything to do with a company who would use such marketing tactics and he would do well to get himself another job rather than work for a company which used such underhanded marketing tactics that it would be shut down by either lack of business, or legal action. I also said I wasn't sure how much legal protection he would have personally, if he was at all party to this type of phone tactic.</p><p></p><p>I said that people often feel vulnerable and afraid when they get phone call after phone call with nobody on the other end, or when it hangs up as they answer. This can cause serious harm to some people and is an offence.</p><p></p><p>I've had no more phone calls from that company. A relief.</p><p></p><p>But where they will not give up - I had a company ring one day trying to sell me aluminium cladding. I had received calls from this company before and said I wasn't interested. So this time - I let the guy talk. I even tried to sound faintly interested. I watched the clock. After about twenty minutes of this young bloke explaining how aluminium cladding could give us better insulation (sound and temperature) as well as improve the look of our home, and me asking for detailed descriptions of the rang of finishes and colours, I finally asked my clincher question - "How do you go about attaching aluminium cladding to a face brick exterior? We live in a brick home."</p><p></p><p>He hung up on me!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 183687, member: 1991"] I remember reading a MAD magazine article on things to do with unwanted telephone solicitors. Some of these are illegal (now) such as blowing a whistle down the phone line. But you can always do other things like hand the phone to the baby. Another one was to draw up a chart of who has rung, and have a stopwatch handy. You say to the person, "Oh, no! The pot is boiling over!"and drop the phone onto the kitchen bench. Then start the stopwatch and wait until you hear the CLICK that means they finally gave up and hung up. The thing I do now - I hope it could work for you - I ask to be removed from their database. We now have a "do not call" register in Australia. This doesn't stop calls from organisations you're a member of, or companies you're a customer of, but it should stop marketing calls and random sales calls. It won't stop calls from companies tat use a random dialler but we do have the capacity to make complaints against such companies - I had one a few weeks ago which was ringing my mobile phone every hour, hanging up after less than one ring. One day I was able to answer it and amazingly, this time there was a person on the other end. I told that person that I had already filed complaints of harassment because all the calls had made me afraid that I was being stalked. As a result, I did not want to have anything to do with a company who would use such marketing tactics and he would do well to get himself another job rather than work for a company which used such underhanded marketing tactics that it would be shut down by either lack of business, or legal action. I also said I wasn't sure how much legal protection he would have personally, if he was at all party to this type of phone tactic. I said that people often feel vulnerable and afraid when they get phone call after phone call with nobody on the other end, or when it hangs up as they answer. This can cause serious harm to some people and is an offence. I've had no more phone calls from that company. A relief. But where they will not give up - I had a company ring one day trying to sell me aluminium cladding. I had received calls from this company before and said I wasn't interested. So this time - I let the guy talk. I even tried to sound faintly interested. I watched the clock. After about twenty minutes of this young bloke explaining how aluminium cladding could give us better insulation (sound and temperature) as well as improve the look of our home, and me asking for detailed descriptions of the rang of finishes and colours, I finally asked my clincher question - "How do you go about attaching aluminium cladding to a face brick exterior? We live in a brick home." He hung up on me! Marg [/QUOTE]
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