Solicitation calls

[Seeker]

We all get them but do you ever just have fun with them?


My husband is champion at it.


He had a 10 minute conversation today with a 30 year old trying to sell him ******.


I had tears running sown my face after this was over..


It went from “it will allow you to have sessions 3 times a day”


To …..But will it help me with a ménage a trois?

 

[Falcon]

I hate to tell you where I tell them to stick their product.

 

[Seeker]

I hate to tell you where I tell them to stick their product.

Then they just hang up...No fun in it....

 

[norman]

I sometimes pretend to be hard of hearing and to get them talking real loud.. I can also do a good english (UK) accent and tell them that I am Charles, Prince of Wales.

 

[retiredtraveler]

We don't answer the phone directly unless we recognize the number or person calling.

 

[Seeker]

We don't answer the phone directly unless we recognize the number or person calling.

Again...There's no fun in that......

 

[win231]

If I'm in the mood, I have LOTS of fun with solicitors.

They start with the usual "How are you today?"

I answer: "I have cancer, tuberculosis, arthritis, constipation, hemorrhoids, erectile dysfunction & irritable bowel syndrome. How are you?"

Always complete silence on the other end of the phone.

 

[Keesha]

Can’t stand them which is why we get rid of our landline about 8 or 9 years ago.

 

[Aneeda72]

I have a land line, makes cable cheaper to bundle, but I never answer it.

i don't give them a hard time, it's a job. They have to feed their family. I just hang up and block the call.

 

[norman]

If I'm in the mood, I have LOTS of fun with solicitors.

They start with the usual "How are you today?"

I answer: "I have cancer, tuberculosis, arthritis, constipation, hemorrhoids, erectile dysfunction & irritable bowel syndrome. How are you?"

Always complete silence on the other end of the phone.

:lol1: my favorite is acting like i am hard of hearing, which is rather funny because I am...

 

[twinkles]

i like having fun with them also

 

[norman]

I have a land line, makes cable cheaper to bundle, but I never answer it.

i don't give them a hard time, it's a job. They have to feed their family. I just hang up and block the call.

You are so right, it is a job and maybe the only one they could get.:thumbsup1:

 

[RadishRose]

I think the telemarketer enjoyed this too.

 

[terry123]

I don't answer any number I don't recognize. I can think of other ways to have fun.

 

[Manatee]

Tell them to "hold on a minute" and then go take a nap.

 

[JustBonee]

A dent was made in the robocall operations around the US today ... FTC cracked down on four major ones.

https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/27...obocall-operations/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000618

"The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced today that it shut down four separate robocall operations responsible for placing billions of illegal robocalls. The four organizations responsible for the calls agreed to settlements with the agency. Under those agreements, the companies will no longer be able to make robocalls or use automatic dialers to place calls, effectively barring them from
the telemarketing business.

 

[norman]

A dent was made in the robocall operations around the US today ... FTC cracked down on four major ones.

https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/27...obocall-operations/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000618

"The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced today that it shut down four separate robocall operations responsible for placing billions of illegal robocalls. The four organizations responsible for the calls agreed to settlements with the agency. Under those agreements, the companies will no longer be able to make robocalls or use automatic dialers to place calls, effectively barring them from the telemarketing business


I will drink to that :beerandwhistle: of course I would drink to anything... some thing needed to be done.