re-cold calls on landline

dandelionclock30

I unplug the phone and then plug it in when I want to make a call. Obviously if you have people who are vulnerable ringing you its different. People can contact me by email/facebook.
Also when I have been caught out I dont listen to all the rubbish. I just put the phone down straight away.
TPS makes no differnce as the majorit of these cold callers are from outside the UK. They are from Bagladesh/India and Pakistan.

Robin9

I'm with Talk Talk and has a free call blocker

Torry_Quine

I don't answer calls from withheld numbers or international calls. If it is something important such as my GP for instance they would leave a message.

[Deleted User]

dandelionclock30 wrote: »

I unplug the phone and then plug it in when I want to make a call.

That's an awful lot of vital functionality you lose just to avoid cold calls!

People pay to call and to be called, I don't recommend your solution at all!

balletshoes

dandelionclock30 wrote: »

I unplug the phone and then plug it in when I want to make a call. Obviously if you have people who are vulnerable ringing you its different. People can contact me by email/facebook.
Also when I have been caught out I dont listen to all the rubbish. I just put the phone down straight away.
TPS makes no differnce as the majorit of these cold callers are from outside the UK. They are from Bagladesh/India and Pakistan.

thats what i do too - i don't answer my landline up to around 8pm generally, if its someone i know and want to talk to they'll either leave a message or contact me on my mobile.

if I do pick up the phone and its a cold call, I just disconnect the call (I usually say I'm not interested, thank you before I do, but I don't encourage any response to that, i'm already hanging up).

chickens11

teddysmum wrote: »

But you really must have a little fun winding up the 'people from Microsoft'.

I dont answer "international call", I have to answer "with held" numbers because im under drs and hospital very regular.....But I use to get loads of computer telephone calls , and one day I thought right im sick of you lot , and he done his usual crap talk and asked me if I was near my computer so I said hang on I will get to it, he told me to turn it on so I thought id better turn it on cos then he would hear it start up, so all I done was start it up.......He went through loads of questions with me press this press that etc and I just sat there , I made out to him that I was so thick with computers and that he would have to bare with me , this went on for at least 15 mins, and he said to me in a foreign voice " what do it say on your screen ", I said it says " THIS IS THE BIGGEST SCAM IVE EVER HAD ON SCREEN NOW PLEASE F*CK OFF..........:D:eek:.....I was so pleased with myself and I had to laugh at what id done, my family loved it , result, no more computer calls.....

Tigsteroonie

dandelionclock30 wrote: »

I unplug the phone and then plug it in when I want to make a call. Obviously if you have people who are vulnerable ringing you its different. People can contact me by email/facebook.

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

That's an awful lot of vital functionality you lose just to avoid cold calls!

What "vital" functionality? It's not vital that anybody calls me on my landline, that's why I have a mobile phone.

We've decided at the new house to do exactly the above - we'll have a landline (we want BB so no choice) but we won't leave a phone plugged in.

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Tigsteroonie wrote: »

What "vital" functionality? It's not vital that anybody calls me on my landline, that's why I have a mobile phone.

Not everyone has a mobile phone (or is prepared to call one). Regardless, unplugging the 'phone is like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

we want BB so no choice

It's possible to get internet without a landline.

dandelionclock30

Its not vital that anyone calls me on my landline at all. Im not wanting calls from Drs or anything like that.
I ask people to contact me via the internet as do a lot of people now. I did get a call blocker but saw that BT charge you for using the service. So I thought, no as I pay enough for their service as it is. I sent it back.
BT also charge for a phone with caller display, I think its £50 ish. Why should people have to pay extra because they cant police their service?

lisa701

Never had one cold call until I registered with TPS and within days I was bombarded by at least 10 calls a day from various withheld, out of area and numbers I do not know.

I only have a landline for BB and the only people I've given the number to is my parents - and they call me on my mobile. I leave the phone switched off most of the time and only use it for making calls to numbers that would cost me more from my mobile.