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Bloddy Consumer Lifestyles

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These stupid people keep calling.

This time I put on a voice like Neddy Seagoon and said I am not a consumer and I don't have a lifestyle.

Do you know if not hanging up keeps their phone line occupied?

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  • bluenoseam
    bluenoseam Posts: 4,612 Forumite
    I just had one as well, rather forcibly (and I'm not going to lie nor am I ashamed of the fact, rather profanely) told them to never bother me again today.

    Fully expect another one next week.
    Retired member - fed up with the general tone of the place.
  • soolin
    soolin Posts: 74,119 Ambassador
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    We were getting one a day, between 7-8 each evening. Even being rude to them didn't stop them calling the next evening.

    They drove me to distraction, in the end my husband played along with them, wasted a great deal of their time with nonsense and pretending to misunderstand them all the time.
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  • Littleweedj
    Littleweedj Posts: 213 Forumite
    Get 'caller display'. Usually these calls come through as 'withheld' so I never answer them.

    If genuine call from someone you know then they can say who it is on your answer machine and you pick up knowing it's not time wasters.
  • bugbyte_2
    bugbyte_2 Posts: 415 Forumite
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    bluenoseam wrote: »
    I just had one as well, rather forcibly (and I'm not going to lie nor am I ashamed of the fact, rather profanely) told them to never bother me again today.

    Fully expect another one next week.

    You are guaranteed to get a call tomorrow as you told them not to bother you again, today.

    No idea what the answer is, and no idea why the government don't make it illegal.
    Edible geranium
  • bargainbetty
    bargainbetty Posts: 3,455 Forumite
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    Because the calls are from a foreign country, and short of blocking international lines, there is very little they can do. Enough people must answer their questions to make their database of value and saleable to marketing companies. I just politely tell them I am not interested and won't answer their questions. I rarely get calls anymore from this bunch.
    Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps....
    LB moment - March 2006. DFD - 1 June 2012!!! DEBT FREE!



    May grocery challenge £45.61/£120
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