When they ask for your husband, just say "hold on, I'll go get him" or something similar and leave the caller waiting indefinitely. I've found that's the quickest way to keep telemarketers from calling back. Since they usually have a daily quota of calls or sales leads, they hate for their time to be wasted waiting for someone who may never actually pick up the phone.
When they ask for your husband, just say "hold on, I'll go get him" or something similar and leave the caller waiting indefinitely. I've found that's the quickest way to keep telemarketers from calling back. Since they usually have a daily quota of calls or sales leads, they hate for their time to be wasted waiting for someone who may never actually pick up the phone.
Yes, these people are slime. Yes, they deserve all the bad things you would like to do to them. Yes, being on the do not call list is worthless except to stop honest companies from bothering you. If you have a call blocker, block this number. You can't harass them enough to make a difference. At best you can say just a minute, put down the phone and waste their time. Does that make a difference? Probably not. Just hang up and never answer a call from someone you don't know again. Real people and businesses will leave a message.
To fight these scum you have to take action yourself.....the do not call list is a joke (the FCC and congress have proven to be lapdogs for big business telemarketers and is now moving to give them and big media priority fast lane access to the internet.....the FCC chairman is (surprise) a former telecom lobbyist. If you do not have a call blocking feature (or run out of space), do yourself a favor and get a call blocker, and just plug it in to your phone line.....it will be the best money you ever spent.....lots of them out there, check Google and Fleabay. I got a device called Pro Call Blocker last year and it only costs around $50. It stores up to 1500 or so numbers and uses caller ID. When a spam call comes in, all you have to do is hit the blacklist button and presto, no more calls from this number (you can also manually enter numbers to block, entire area codes or all out of area numbers). It logs all calls in or out. If you get this one, be sure to get the latest version (last I looked it was 2.2). There is also another similar device called T-lock blocker which looks similar and came out late last year. Phone line is pretty quiet now as there are no repeat calls (although a lot of these spammers have multiple numbers so you have to block each one as they come in). Get a device and post back a review........screw the spammers!!
If they are asking to talk to your husband and won't talk to you, they are calling on behalf of Playboy. My hubby subscribed for a year. He doesn't want it anymore, but when they call he is never awake because he is a day sleeper. They flat out REFUSE to take my say so. They call here at least 5x a week. Thank heaven's for call blocking. They go straight to voicemail. I wish I knew the name of the company because I would definitely lodge a formal complaint!
They call every day with caller id showing Texas call. A female asks for my husband saying she is from Hot Rod Magazine. She won't talk to me, so I lowered my voice and insisted I was him. She said, "you're not Sam!" And hung up. Our number is on the do not call registry, but it still gets through. What an annoyance!