Telemarketers

Call Control for the Android phone. Solves all kinds of problems, spam calls get dumped automatically. You can even set it so any calls not on your contact list go to voice mail without ever ringing. As for the house phone, we haven't had one in years other than a fax machine.

Rotary phone. It will not receive a telemarketer's calls

I just tell them that I'm getting a pen and I'll be back in a moment.

Then put the phone down and go back to work.

Come back 1/2hr later and hang the phone up.

I had a home phone at an apartment I lived at. I'd get a call from a fax machine at 3am EVERY night. I looked up the number and it was from a cabinet company. I called them, it was an older man, I was pissed but he sounded like one of those old guys who barely remembers how to work a fax machine. I told him my number and how he was faxing me at 3am every morning. He said his machine automatically send order confirmations in the morning to businesses so they'd have them when they opened and he appologized continuously and said he'd fix it. Never got another call. We had to have a home phone so the front gate could call us.

I've had a bunch of scam calls too. I have to admit, when I was 20, I bought a subscription to a magazine service so they'd shut up because I was gettin it on. LOL I shoulda just ignored the call, but oh well.

I always ask people what they are wearing.

I get a what the first time, then I repeat.

I goes down hill from there.

The farthest any of them has gotten in my repertoire is

"So now take off your pants and describe your undies to me."

Never called again.

Otto Maddox wrote:

carguy123 wrote: I do file complaints. I file them on the phone calls and the faxes I get. Unfortunately they require you to have asked to be removed from the Fax lists which always prompts even more faxes as they sell your name repeatedly. Every so often I get a check from the govt for $50. That is my share of the fine they levy.

People still send faxes?

The worst is when you find places that ONLY accept faxes.

When I was single, I would list my phone in a bogus name. If I got a call asking for that name, hang up. This was before the real TM invasion, though.

Appleseed wrote: Rotary phone. It will not receive a telemarketer's calls

It may or may not provide the right response to the telemarketer if you pick up, but a rotary phone will still ring whenever you get an incoming call.

I have one in my living room, and it rings nice and loud no matter who's calling.