Cold callers!

JulieElizabeth

Why do people feel the need to lie? Just say no thanks. If they are persistent tell them to PlSS OFF or put the phone down/close the door.

balletshoes

johnnyboyrebel wrote: »

Finally, someone else that speaks sense! :rotfl: There is no need for a landline nowadays, like you I am rarely in the house anyway (certainly not throughout the days of the week) so people would have to ring the mobile to get hold of me.

Come on people, stop the endless complaints about cold callers and just unplug the phone or don't answer it!!

a but you see i'm a nightmare for not hearing my mobile phone at home. I rarely check it for texts or voicemail either, just have never got into the habit of having it near me/out of my bag.

balletshoes

carlislelass wrote: »

Even worse are calls with number witheld

why? I don't care what their number is if I've already hung up on them!

Mrs_Arcanum

carlislelass wrote: »

Even worse are calls with number witheld

With silence at the other end. :mad::mad::mad:

donnac2558

But it seems in the US, they now do call mobile numbers. So it will start over here at some point.

Faith177

I just hang up no skin off my nose they can ring all the like. I'm already getting cold calls on my mobile but as I'm always at work I always miss them if it was someone important they will ring back

Did find a great way to get rid of Jehovas though. Opened the door with a t-shirt saying "I must not play with Satan" whilst listen to hardcore metal. As I opened the door my two black cats Hades & Lucy-Fur escaped they have never knocked since :T

Madmel

johnnyboyrebel wrote: »

Finally, someone else that speaks sense! :rotfl: There is no need for a landline nowadays...

I beg to differ. What if, like me, you live in a rural area with no mobile phone signal? A landline is at the very least desirable.

dizziblonde

donnac2558 wrote: »

But it seems in the US, they now do call mobile numbers. So it will start over here at some point.

Oh they'll call mobiles - or advertising text you (which drives me NUTS)... I try to minimise heavily who I give my mobile number out to but I still get the odd one.

Taadaa

I have been at home more recently and am beginning to pull my ahir out. I have registered in the past few days with the TPS. I also googled our telephone number, as we still get calls for the previous owners, five years after they were repossessed. Our address and telephone number was registered on several sites under a business name. Have begun requesting removal of it. Not sure it will help though as a couple of times people have called and when I have said 'he doesn't live here' they have said 'but he gave me this number to call him the other day!' - think he would know better having been a police officer....!

oldagetraveller

Madmel wrote: »

I beg to differ. What if, like me, you live in a rural area with no mobile phone signal? A landline is at the very least desirable.

Ditto.
Plus if someone told me they only accepted calls on their mobile, I wouldn't. Why should I have to pay the extra cost of the call to a mobile when I have "free" inclusive landline numbers through my landline 'phone?