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It's junk phone call day today!

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  • tomstickland
    tomstickland Posts: 19,538 Forumite
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    I had one last night, telling me about some wonderful property survey. I did some random laughing at their questions, and then just kepy saying "no, no, no, no , no" very slowly and regularly. It worked quite well.
    Happy chappy
  • Heinz
    Heinz Posts: 11,191 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Car Insurance Carver!
    Caller Display ('Withheld' is a good indication it's going to be a time-waster) and a 'phone with a 'Music On Hold' button works for me.

    The Caller Display is free (thank you BT) and the 'phone cost me less than £10 on ebay (I wanted an LST anyway and the MOH feature was a bonus). The MOH is really just a few repeated - and very annoying - notes but it does the trick. They never seem to be there when I go back after 5 minutes!
    Time has moved on (much quicker than it used to - or so it seems at my age) and my previous advice on residential telephony has been or is now gradually being overtaken by changes in the retail market. Hence, I have now deleted links to my previous 'pearls of wisdom'. I sincerely hope they helped save some of you money.
  • ManAtHome
    ManAtHome Posts: 8,512 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    claire23 wrote:
    Most of them (kitchens, windows, conservatries etc) you can get rid of by simply saying "i'm just the tenant".
    I do that with the door-steppers (TPS has stopped most of the phoners).

    OMG - we may have started the BTL boom! When they all meet up in the pub, can just imagine it "I'm getting out of the door-to-door and buying a few houses, there's a hell of a rental market round here".
  • Leave the phone on and let em talk to the answer phone for a while. then quitely put it back down
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