Cold callers beware!

[Brian d marge]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23869462

Thats briliant , I wonder if NZ has anything like this.

Its not a problem here , but I know it is over there !

good form that man,,, good form!!!

Stephen

[5150]

We get on average 4-5 calls a week from companies trying to sell us everything. Sick of them ringing. Got call ID, so now if they come up annonymous I either don't answer, or on the occasion that I do, I just politely ask them to hang on a sec, while I quickly go and for example turn tv down etc, then just put the receiver down and go to what ever i was doing. Usually I will check in 4-5 minutes and they usually hung up by then. :finger:

[Brian d marge]

We get on average 4-5 calls a week from companies trying to sell us everything. Sick of them ringing. Got call ID, so now if they come up annonymous I either don't answer, or on the occasion that I do, I just politely ask them to hang on a sec, while I quickly go and for example turn tv down etc, then just put the receiver down and go to what ever i was doing. Usually I will check in 4-5 minutes and they usually hung up by then. :finger:

every time they ring YOU make money , , would buy a beer or two I reckon !!

Stephen

[Smifffy]

http://www.telecom.co.nz/business/ourproducts/0900numbers/overview/

Terms & conditions yada yada, also need a crap ton (possibly imperial, but metric might cover it) of calls to recoup the costs.

[Mom]

I like this principle though, if enough of us banded together to buy one of these lines and we all put the number down as our contact, we could actually make some money. Hmmmmmmm idea forming.