I like arguing with them to see how well they handle my objections. One lady from Austar was excellent, she had a come back for every excuse I gave. I eventually just had to say no thanks. Then she asked if my wife would be interested!!!
So when you buy an ADSL package it is possible not to pay line rental?
Yep, that's right Marc, Naked ADSL is just that - the ISP provides and pays for the landline to your premises and you just pay the ADSL fees; though you cannot use the landline to dial-out
I just hang up now if no one answers within the first hello
But
Can anyone beat this
I got rung by a machine, and as soon as i answered
it told me to "hold for an important connection"
then immediately put me on hold with elevator music
Had two of these creatures call me yesterday, between 7 and 8pm, right on dinner.
One wanted to sell me some phone.....I told him "can I get your phone number so I can call you at the exact moment your having dinner after a long day of burrowing your parasitic germs into innocent people to sell you a phone you already *&$^& have!" in a mock indian accent....
The next one was some pro-environment greenie type thing, this time I asked him a whole bunch of random lewd and offensive questions and finished by informing him of how greenies are the human equivalent of dung beetles.
I understand the frustrations but being rude is not really the answer. Most telemarketers have no caller ID. Just don't answer this calls and let tem go to an answering machine. They are poeple employed doing a job that is asked of them by a boss that doesn't care. It is the boss that should be dealt with.There are so many people out of work over the world they can't help but to get a job to feed the kids.
The Do Not Call register is really something that should consider instead of being offensive.
I understand the pain. When I had a landline I got so many unwanted telemarketers I used to explain in words of one syllable where they could insert their product/charity/homeless millionaires etc.
There was then a spate of calls at very early hours.
So I ditched the landline and only answer calls that show their number on the mobile.
Now nobody rings at all, shear bliss!
Why does the word for syllable have more than one syllable? Another unanswered mystery.
Although now they come to the door at evening meal time! One even left the gate open as my vicious homicidal Jack Russel chased him off and up
the street!
Although now they come to the door at evening meal time! One even left the gate open as my vicious homicidal Jack Russel chased him off and up
the street!
I understand the frustrations but being rude is not really the answer. Most telemarketers have no caller ID. Just don't answer this calls and let tem go to an answering machine. They are poeple employed doing a job that is asked of them by a boss that doesn't care. It is the boss that should be dealt with.There are so many people out of work over the world they can't help but to get a job to feed the kids.
They should get a real job and furthermore it is not my burden to carry if someone is out of work and cant feed their kids, and if someone is offended by this, I honestly don't give 2 hoots.
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The Do Not Call register is really something that should consider instead of being offensive.
I like the personal satisfaction that comes from telling off an annoying telemarketer.
