does anyone else get those annoying calls where they use a computer to test dial your number first to see if anyone is at home? Also i find those calls where they call you up and a recording tells you to wait on the line a real pain in the a**. I don't have time to wait for people who called me to answer the phone - i think it's kind of rude.
2006-10-23 13:49:45 · 22 answers · asked by una g 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
I used too but now I have caller id the extra small fee was so worth it!
2006-10-23 13:51:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
As mentioned in some of your answers, caller ID is really great; I am also on the Do Not Call Registry (including my fax line) & both phone numbers blocked. Does this help? Only the caller ID IF I'M NEAR THE PHONE. (If I carry it around w/me I lose it.) I've kept pages of calls from same numbers, filed complaints w/Do Not Call, & even w/the FTC. Useless. The same numbers call every day of the week. I've answered on the 1st ring to find WHO they are, & they hang up. Mostly out of State.
2006-10-23 21:18:25 · answer #2 · answered by Valac Gypsy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes!!! What happen to the Do Not Call, bill it went into affect now a 5 months after the phone is ringing off the hook with 1-800 numbers.
I use to be woken up at 1 am three times in a week because of that!! Now im getting calls around 8am.
I hate it!!!
Some are real people asking you to take a freakin poll\quiz thingy: i say no thanks and hang up, or just pick up the phone and hang it up again
its not rude, its what it is: a waste of time talking to a tellamarketer.
Next time im going to act like im a business its i need to get their home phone numbers, can i please have your phone number!!!
or do what seinfeld did when it happen to him: "how would you like it if i called you at home"! and hang up the phone
2006-10-23 20:56:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Not too often, except when there is an election. If you are on the "Do not call List" most places will not call you. B/c if they do they can be fined. But pollsters and charities can still call. I have had caller ID for years, think it is one of the best inventions. I had not had it for 24 hours when a kid prank called my house. I called their mother back the next morning...viola', no more calls. I also have call block for free w/ my phone service.
2006-10-23 21:01:13 · answer #4 · answered by Michelle G 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I use to get them until Missouri got the no-call list.you call a 800 # from your home phone and it puts you on the list and after 30 days to take effect if they call your # they get fined or something like that.It works!
2006-10-23 20:58:46 · answer #5 · answered by jan2856mjm 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes and the telemarketing recordings are getting better, sometimes I dont know if its really someone speaking or a damn recording...the other day I got one from some guy doing a campain for a republican some guy...and it was sooo boring, im too nice to hang up..but as soon as he said republican ...no no c-ya!
2006-10-23 21:24:11 · answer #6 · answered by natarrenata 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll be glad when the election is over. I constantly get recordings of vote for me and it's on my CELL! I just hang up. Recorded or not.
2006-10-23 21:06:52 · answer #7 · answered by pj 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OMG i hate those i hang up on my aunt from Germany on accident too beacuse i thought that its some ad. -.- (i didnt hear her say anything at first)
(reply to the person up there)
i like JUST got a call from a republican too ! But i hung up xD
2006-10-23 21:25:05 · answer #8 · answered by Love. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the time from people trying to sell me more mobile phones
2006-10-23 21:16:17 · answer #9 · answered by Future boy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO, i dont get those kind of phone calls but it seems annoying!
2006-10-23 21:00:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just hang up. You get an instinct that it's going to be someone trying to sell you a phone or kitchen
2006-10-23 20:53:23 · answer #11 · answered by Taylor29 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋