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I have the perfect solution to this problem . . . the ringer on the phone is switched off . . . calls can come through but I don't hear them . . . I have an answer machine and also caller display and check them regularly all day . . . if it's an urgent call from a family member, they call my mobile.

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Meg25 that is so cruuuuuuuel, but I like it.

My old landline phone number was 216620 and my phone constantly rang for the local garage, whose number was 212620.

One particular day the phone rang, again asking if I was the garage and I spelt it out by saying: "this is two one double six two zero." The caller said: "yes two one, two sixes, two zero." I said: "no you want two one two, six two zero." Caller: "yes, that's what I said, two one, two sixes, two zero."

I gave up and put the phone down and refused to answer again.

The tale about the Chinese take-away puts me in mind of Hyacinth Bouquet from Keeping Up Appearances!

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Any cold calls are quickly ended here, I listen to the first sentence and then hang up without saying a word.

If they start with my name I say Doh! and hang up.

They never get anywhere with us and never will.

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Hahaha! Love this idea!

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If i receive a call from a India call centre and i have nothing else to do .I talk to them for 10 mins sounding very interested and then say not interested.and hang up ..they are paying for the phone call.

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we had so many calls of this nature at one point we changed our phone number, then believe it or not it was worse than ever, that was about a year ago now and it has slowed down, but now we just tend to put the phone down once we realise it one of those calls

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I am getting so many these last few weeks. I have to hang up immediately and hope I got it right and that it wasn't a friend. The family know to use my mobile. Thing is, these people hear my voice and then ask 'is Mr ............ available please?' I cannot answer 'no' cos then they carry on asking when he will be available.
Could be someone checking I'm alone to rob the place?

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If they ask "Is Mr .......... available" the next time, just place the phone down and ask whoever it is to hold on ....... they will soon get fed up!

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That's a good idea Mags, when my husband used to pick up the phone before we decided to ignore all the calls and put the phone down, he would say in a very polite manor he was not interested, but he soon lost his temper as nine times out of ten these people just go on and on, he invariably ended up putting the phone down anyway so its pointless reting to reason with these people.

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You're right Mags and that's what I do mostly. You can tell it's them by the background noise anyway but a couple of times I've been caught out - not anymore though. It's such a pain too when you're busy and you get up from what you're in the middle of to answer it!