"brass monkey" wrote:
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 find that flirting outrageously works. Flirt so hard you make the staff
cry (male or female, doesn't matter!). If you can upset the staff enough to
make them cry then chances are they won't be calling back :-)