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    I know how you feel, it happens to us, too!

    I want to answer it next time and say I will get you for harrassment if you don't stop calling!!!
    Krista- owned by Rudy, Dixie, Miagi & Angel

    Rocky, Jenny, Ginger Buster & Tiger .. forever loved & always in my heart..



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    It must happen to a lot of people, and I would think the phone company has a department to deal with this.

    Call them - it's THEIR phone system and they ought to have some way of dealing with it!

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    Ok in the automated messege does it say stay on the line you and you will be put through to ....... if so stay on the line i had the same problem

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    This is a link to the Canadian Do Not Call directory.

    It is free and will block addressed junk mail, faxes and phone calls.


    http://www.the-cma.org/consumer/donotcontact.cfm

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    While we are ranting and raving here - someone mentioned getting faxes that you do not want.

    This is a HUGE pain to me. They send them in the middle of the night - so I don't find them until the morning. AND the little buggers no longer put their phone number on the top, so you cannot tell who it is coming from.

    Some of them have numbers you can call to stop them from sending you faxes. I have called (all electronic) and punched in my fax line so that they would remove it. Very next day - another fax comes in - but at the bottom they have yet another phone number to call if you don't want to receive them.

    I run a report on my incoming and outgoing faxes.....but those junk faxes never have any number listed on the report.

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    This was just emailed to me - very funny!

    The phone rang as I was sitting down to my evening meal, and as I
    answered it I was greeted with "Is this Karl Brummer". Not sounding
    anything like my name, I asked who is calling. The telemarketer said he
    was with The Rubber Band Powered Freezer Company or something like that.
    Then I asked him if he knew Karl personally and why was he calling this
    number. I then said off to the side, "get some pictures of the body at
    various angles and the blood smears", I then turned back to the phone
    and advised the caller that he had entered a murder scene and must stay
    on the line because we had already traced this call and he would be
    receiving a summons to testify in this murder case.
    I questioned the caller at great length as to his name, address, phone
    number at home, at work, who he worked for, how he knew the dead guy and
    could he prove where he had been about one hour before he made this
    call.
    The telemarketer was getting very concerned and his answers were given
    in a shaky voice. I then told him we had located his position and the
    police were entering the building to take him into custody, at that
    point I heard the phone fall and the scurrying of his feet running away.
    My wife asked me as I returned to our table why I had tears streaming
    down my face and so help me, I couldn't tell her for about fifteen
    minutes. My meal was cold, but it was the best meal in a long, long
    time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gini
    The phone rang as I was sitting down to my evening meal, and as I
    answered it I was greeted with "Is this Karl Brummer". Not sounding
    anything like my name, I asked who is calling. The telemarketer said he
    was with The Rubber Band Powered Freezer Company or something like that.
    Then I asked him if he knew Karl personally and why was he calling this
    number. I then said off to the side, "get some pictures of the body at
    various angles and the blood smears", I then turned back to the phone
    and advised the caller that he had entered a murder scene and must stay
    on the line because we had already traced this call and he would be
    receiving a summons to testify in this murder case.
    I questioned the caller at great length as to his name, address, phone
    number at home, at work, who he worked for, how he knew the dead guy and
    could he prove where he had been about one hour before he made this
    call.
    The telemarketer was getting very concerned and his answers were given
    in a shaky voice. I then told him we had located his position and the
    police were entering the building to take him into custody, at that
    point I heard the phone fall and the scurrying of his feet running away.
    My wife asked me as I returned to our table why I had tears streaming
    down my face and so help me, I couldn't tell her for about fifteen
    minutes. My meal was cold, but it was the best meal in a long, long
    time.
    I love this, serves them right. I've had the same problem, a couple of times it's been actual people. Once I even had one argue with me when I told them that person was not at this number. They kept insisting that I owed the bill thinking I was lying to them about who I was since the person they were looking for was female. I finally got completely annoyed and hung up on them, then called the company back and spoke to a supervisor...needless to say I never received another call from that company.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lori Jordan
    Ok in the automated messege does it say stay on the line you and you will be put through to ....... if so stay on the line i had the same problem
    My messages never say that. I've tried that. They just keep looping around . . . I think they'd repeat for days.
    -christa


    ~RIP Abby Jan 14, 1995 - July 21, 2005~

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    Quote Originally Posted by christa
    My messages never say that. I've tried that. They just keep looping around . . . I think they'd repeat for days.
    I always try hitting "Zero" - it will often get you through to an operator - a.k.a. a real live human being!

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    and for those of us who truly loathe the automated answering systems you get when you call a company to tell them to stop calling you:


    http://gethuman.com/

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