Quote by Angel Chat
I then took my telephone into another room and put it on the table with the receiver still off the hook and went back to making tea :smug:
Good for you.
At the end of the day it isn't the fault of the person who's phoning you, they're only doing what they've been taught. It's the wankers that teach them, who have themselves been taught by... and so on, up to the ones you'll never get to speak to in a month of Sundays coz they can't be reached on the golf course. I try to bite my tongue when that kind of thing happens to me, though it's not easy.
Your solution is good, but, as you say, it costs you money. If I have the time I usually get myself into the mindset of waiting till they've finished saying the current bit of their script (they ALWAYS pause at intervals with an open question for you to respond to). And then I just say "No, I'm not interested thank you." Rinse, repeat. If they don't go away, when I have finally had enough of the game, I say:
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"Exactly what part of 'No, I'm not interested thank you' is it that you don't understand?
And then I hang up without giving them the chance to reply - if they've not got the message by that time then they deserve a little rudeness on my part. Slamming the receiver down is optional, although whenever I do that I always feel stupid coz I remember that they can't hear that bit
Eeeeeeek is that the time? NN
I'm new here, too... 
Not me I hasten to add.
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(what are the point of those anyway... they just have no taste!!!)
Someone tell me that the powers that be know all about all this stuff, and they're not just treating us all as consumers, coz that's what I feel like I'm treated as.
