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Aggravating People

Isn't there some sort of new law about phone solicitations? One can be placed on a "No Call" list, and if the companies still call they can get in trouble? Not that it helps when the phone rings anyway..
 
Have you ever had one of those that is tape recorded message instead of a person? Here they started a few months ago and it's usually a female with an American accent.
 
Yes, I am registered on the "do not call" lists....it seems to have helped.

And automated messages are the easiest to spot in a hurry, and the easiest to hang up on....
 
Motokid said:
Yes, I am registered on the "do not call" lists....it seems to have helped.

And automated messages are the easiest to spot in a hurry, and the easiest to hang up on....
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I hang up on all of them. I don't care if they are talking. And I have other methods for the most persistent door callers to make sure they will not pester me again.
 
Do you non-US residents get phone calls from politicians and others running for election? We had a mayoral primary and the candidates were calling the house, they even had other politicians telling us how great the candidate was. All recorded messages, of course. I wonder how many people's answering machines were clogged with these calls?
 
Miss Shelf said:
Do you non-US residents get phone calls from politicians and others running for election? We had a mayoral primary and the candidates were calling the house, they even had other politicians telling us how great the candidate was. All recorded messages, of course. I wonder how many people's answering machines were clogged with these calls?
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No, they go door to door here. I always say I am not allowed to vote and they evaporate :D
 
:eek: door to door??!! That's even worse! Begone, Satan! I hate people who come to my door and ask if I'm interested in new windows, and my perdonal favorite (Not!) is the guy who drives aroud with meat in the back of his pickup truck, asking if we're interested in cheap steaks. Times like that I'm glad I have a largeish dog that goes nuts whenever people ring the doorbell. :mad:
 
Miss Shelf said:
:eek: door to door??!! That's even worse! Begone, Satan! I hate people who come to my door and ask if I'm interested in new windows, and my perdonal favorite (Not!) is the guy who drives aroud with meat in the back of his pickup truck, asking if we're interested in cheap steaks. Times like that I'm glad I have a largeish dog that goes nuts whenever people ring the doorbell. :mad:
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You could say you are interested and then let your dog have a go at the meat. I am sure they won't call again.
 
Call the police? Who? Someone offering cheap steaks off the back of a track, who probably hasn't got a license to sell meat, meat is not refrigerated and probably has not been slaughtered in a legal abattoir or has passed any health checks?
 
Heh, if I've got the time and am in an evil mood I just have a little fun with the callers. Especially those who call form bookclubs and such and want to sell me an introductory lot of books blah blah. So they ask what I read, and when I reply fantasy and philosophy they always halt and don't quite know what to say, because those two genres are fairly non-represented in our 'run-of-the-mill' bookclubs here in DK. Sometimes they even ask me what fantasy is...

So this one time, the dear girl wanting to sell me 3 books of my choosing suggested crime-novels and thrllers. Oh yeah, I read a few of those once in a while, and then she starts suggesting titles I might want to get, I of course being my evil old self have 'read' all of them :p She suggested a lot of Dean Koontz' novels I remember, ah, so she continues and becomes more and more desperate in her attempt to sell this seemingly interested customer something she doesn't already have. Eventually she suggests the book she started out suggesting. I point this out to her and she gets very flustered, and I tell her that she clearly cannot fofer me anything I'd want - she should try someone else.

I wasted 20+ minutes of her time and I, during my otherwise boring afternoon, had been greatly entertained. I hope she was paid by how much she sold, so my time-wasting efforts will have had an impact on her pay hehe, but that'd be an added bonus.

When I was a telemarketeer we were supposed to ask the customer politely if we could take a few minutes of their time. In the call center our boss/overseer did walk around to check up on how efficiently we were working and if he heard someone skip this question they'd get a reprimand. We were above all, supposed to be polite - not to mention honest. There were some who promised the customers a load of crap that the magazine we sold couldn't live up to - they got fired. To me it generally sounds like there were stricter rules for us than there is for US and possibly UK telemarketeers...
 
Miss Shelf said:
Do you non-US residents get phone calls from politicians and others running for election? We had a mayoral primary and the candidates were calling the house, they even had other politicians telling us how great the candidate was. All recorded messages, of course. I wonder how many people's answering machines were clogged with these calls?
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That is one thing we haven't had happen yet, but that's not to say it won't.

Generally I don't answer the phone anyway. I let the butler (answering machine) get it and then decide whether or not I want to talk to the person calling. However the last few afternoons I have actually answered the phone and each time it has been someone offering me a better mortgage deal. Yesyerday, I told them I rented.
 
Miss Shelf said:
:eek: door to door??!! That's even worse! Begone, Satan! I hate people who come to my door and ask if I'm interested in new windows, and my perdonal favorite (Not!) is the guy who drives aroud with meat in the back of his pickup truck, asking if we're interested in cheap steaks. Times like that I'm glad I have a largeish dog that goes nuts whenever people ring the doorbell. :mad:
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The meat truck guy comes around here about every 3 months, the kids with the over priced magazines come about once a month and they always knock even though I have a big NO SOLICITING sign up. I don't even answer anymore they won't take no for an answer you actually have to slam the door in their face.

So far though my favorite were the people from a church my son (4 at the time) let in while I was showering, I hear talking in my livingroom and come out scared, wet, in a towel and they still start their have you been saved pitch, I asked if they could come back and save my soul in 10 mins when I had some clothes on and we left before they came back.
 
Jehova's Witnesses. At least their missionaries - I'm very good friends with a JW, but those showing up at my door asking whether I've read the Bible... they're asking for it. I always say yes, because surprisingly I *have* read at least large parts of the Bible. And strangely I'm never convinced by their arguments. If I'm in a hurry I send them away, if I'm bored I hold them up, wasting their time, I know there's no hope for me - they can't save my black soul, but they can let me have fun while they're trying to hehe

Edit: I just realised that this could come across as a post against JW's in general - that is not my intention at all so I added a detail or three. I *am* aware that most JW's are ordinary people in real life - I know quite a few of them and like by far most of those I know. It's just their missioning(sp?) that annoys me terribly.
 
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