My pixel tells them I am screening the call and they hang up.
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Who is the Chinese woman and why is she calling me
- Thread starter nobbie48
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When they ask for a credit card number, I never can find my wallet. Usually takes them 10 minutes to figure out that I might never find it.
Once asked for a discount on account of me not having any ducts. Got put on hold. Guy came back around 5 minutes later offering me 15% off. Told him I thought 50% was fair. 10 minutes back and forth, got him up to 20%.
Then booked an appointment for the vacant lot across the street. Win-win.
Nope.
sburns
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I can't remember but the phone doesn't ring, you might see the number pop on screen then that's it.
Most of these call are automated meaning some computer system calls the number, then is voice activated when you answer and say hello. So most of the time the voice mails are nothing to hear. Still a pain to delete.
You know you've won when they swear at you.none of the duct cleaners ever want to clean my 12,000 square foot house with 4 furnaces and 10 bedrooms for $99they usually pass me on to the manager who hangs up on me, or call me explicit names for wasting their time
The indiscriminate robocalls I understand. The ones that drive me the craziest are the ones where you talk to a human and they open with a sales pitch/scam and I recognize their voice because they've already called me four times. Like at that point it feels like they're specifically tormenting me, because they're clearly not going to get whatever it is what they want out of me, but that's not enough for them to take my number out of their dialer to stop wasting their own time. And I may be brief but I am still polite as I realize sometimes you gotta do what you have to survive on this hell of an earth, so I haven't given them a reason to spend their time torturing me. I have a good reason to not ignore unknown numbers - I get medical calls that block caller ID on purpose for privacy reasons, and they almost never leave messages either.
I remember once watching the phone waking my father up from a nap. He answers it politely but almost immediately sets the phone down gently on a table and goes back to sleep. I can hear the sales pitch continue for a couple minutes... I envy that kind of satisfaction
I remember once watching the phone waking my father up from a nap. He answers it politely but almost immediately sets the phone down gently on a table and goes back to sleep. I can hear the sales pitch continue for a couple minutes... I envy that kind of satisfaction
Dirty Frank
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If they get a live answer they have won.
Not necessary. I always pick up their calls if I can and always waste their time, so they will have less time to scam more susceptible people.
Dirty Frank
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The story is that the call centers sell the list of phone numbers that get a live answer.
Tell some stranger to pound sand and they get a rupee or two and you get more calls.
More calls - more fun ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My father got a call from someone saying if he'd send them $x they would send him $y with y being much higher of course.
He said, "I tell you what, why don't you just deduct x from y and send me the difference?". They wouldn't bite so he'd up the x amount as a goodwill gesture ... didn't work.
I know a guy that got caught on that. One trick is to buy a used car and say the bank is giving you grief and you can't cash an insurance cheque. "I can have them to put the cheque in your name and you give me the difference."
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