"brass monkey" wrote in message
eb.com...
I must get at least one call every 2 days usually from one of our Indian
friends, am I alone? There must be dozens of these *******s going through
the electoral roll and I haven't yet found the best reply. Usually you can
hear noise in the background so I've tried slamming the phone down before
they can be bothered to speak. I've tried acting deaf/not understanding,
keeping them there for ages. Asking where they got my number, asking what
is their number. When you tell'em to effectively ****-off they carry on
talking as though reading from a card. It's ok when you can recognise the
voice, you just say 'oh no, not you again' and put the phone down.
How do you folks handle these bods? There must be a lot of cash to be made
in this insulation game.



I had a spate of these ringing every couple of days. Eventually, I told them
that their information must be out of date, as I had already taken advantage
of all the government grants, and had more insulation in my house than I
could ever have needed in the first place. And that seemed to stop them, so
maybe they have the ability to flag or remove phone numbers that are
definitely not going to be worth the cost of the call. For sure, I still get
the odd little flurry, presumably when some *******s that have my phone
number sell it on to some of these clowns, but I just tell them the same
thing, and they seem to go away.

Arfa