if you drop house phone - what number do you give out?

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NancyNGA

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The only calls I get on my landline anymore seem to be from people wanting money. I would like to disconnect the house phone. I know a lot of people do now.

My question is: What phone number do you give out to all the legitimate places (e.g., stores you order from) that require a phone number?

I'm afraid some would sell the lists to telemarketers. Just today I got 3 such calls on the house phone and I'm on the do-not-call-list.
 

I get a few but mostly I can tell that they're spam because after I say 'Hello", there's a few seconds hesitation
before they start talking. Then I hang up. We're talking land lines here. I don't get any on my cell phone nor car phone (OnStar)
 
I rarely get telemarketer or other unsolicited calls, I too am on the do not call list, at least I think I put this cell on that list. lol, but I also don't answer calls from numbers I don't recognize of which I rarely get as well. I also have a free phone number they can call if I become that concern with someone I don't want to have my number. I use my computer to make several outgoing calls, the calls are free via google gmail account. I set it up some four or so years ago can call and receive calls from all over in country for free.
 
What's to keep telemarketers from just dialing random numbers until they get a hit?
They use this technique to conduct surveys. It would be no less efficient than dialing my number thousands
of times when I never bite, like "Rachel" from Credit Card Services. That outfit has learned how to fake
legitimate numbers on caller ID.

I guess what I would really like is one of those disposable numbers to give out. One you can just
destroy whenever you want. I have no desire to talk to anyone on it.

I'm a little paranoid about the cell phone. It is so bad here on the landline now that I take the phone off the
hook if there's anything important I have to do. But even *worse* before the do not call registry. "Rachel"
has only called my cell phone once, about a month ago. Maybe she will never call back.

Sorry, I'm just muttering to myself now. :)
 
We disconnected our landline over four years ago for just that reason-only people who ever called it were telemarketers. I give my cell number to anyone that asks for a phone # and so far,have not had any problems with telemarketers calling it. I keep hearing that it`s going to start happening though. I just won`t answer any calls that I don`t recognize. I don`t now.
 
Well, looks like their busy today after month of none of these calls just got one, but to be certain, I always do a reverse phone number check before I bother responding, plus if they don't leave a message on my answering machine it's usually a good clue it's no one I want to talk with.

Couple of services I use.

http://www.intelius.com/reverse-phone-lookup.html

https://www.intelius.com/results.php?ReportType=33&qnpa=847&qnxx=966&qstation=1630&focusfirst=1

http://www.whitepages.com/reverse_phone
 
I give my land line, I don't carry a cell anymore so the land line is the best to give out. I am also on the do not call list with land line and cell and that helps a great deal. I can also block x amount of phone numbers on my land line phone server.
 

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