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For anyone else who's had a gutsfull of these pesky buggers, here's the link for the Don't Call (me you pricks) Register..............
https://www.donotcall.gov.au/regNumber.cfm
So in order for them not to call me, I have to first give them my number?...![]()
Sounds all well and good until you see the list of exempt telemarketers:
Exempt organisations include:
* charities or charitable institutions
* educational institutions
* religious organisations
* government bodies
* registered political parties
* independent members of parliament
* political candidates.
Begs the question, why bother?
I want to be unique - just like everybody else!
And the rest of the pests are ringing from overseas anyway, so the Government can't do anything about it , even if it had the stomach to do so, which it doesn't.
I smell an election coming on, and the BS getting shovelled.
i like telemarketers they are fun!!
I love the overseas telemarketing people -
I answer the phone here the long pause and they say hello
and I say hi,
they say can we just.....
and I interrupt them and ask them to hold for a moment.
I walk away from the phone and go back to it in 20 minutes, quietly pick up the phone and see if they are still there.
I hardly hear from them any more.
Exile
Port Macquarie
"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that!" - Rocky Balboa
My mother does that, and then she forgets to put the phone back on the hook. Know how disconcerting that can be when your oldies are in their 80's?
i heard yesterday the service crashed because that many people tried to get on it at once
when they call me i pretend im 18 untill they realise and ask for my parents. then i pretend my house is getting broken into and theres gunshots and chaos happening then they soon hang up.
tip: a good way to get them to hang up is to press all of the buttons on your phone at once it works most times.
We simply don't answer the phone if we don't recognize who's calling.
Danny DeVito did it best in the movie Ruthless People.
my brother starts talking in a really bad foreign language....they hang up..
Originally Posted by Exile
I did that to my grandad once...... when I was little.... oops!
I want to be unique - just like everybody else!