If the phone rings one more time...

[Jenn060306]

I THINK I'M GUNNA SNAP!

:censored:
We don't normally get alot of phone calls. But in the last 2 days there have been 3-5 blank messages on our answering machine when i've gotten home. And the phone has rang about 10 times while i've been home in the evenings. I don't normally answer it if i don't recognize the number and a good portion of them i have no clue who it is!
I'm going a little CRAZY! I can't stand haning up the phone to have it ring again as soon as i put it down. :bbeek:

[LaceyinPgh]

Yep I have had those days too! At least it is almost bedtime.

[usahgrad]

Ok, so I was checking out Health Insurance Prices online the other day and now I can't get my phone to stop ringing either. I WAS JUST LOOKING PEOPLE! I DON'T CARE WHAT PHENOMENAL PACKAGE YOU CAN OFFER ME! I STILL DON'T HAVE THE MONEY! People don't seem to understand that I only make so much and right now it's just me. Yes, Jason works on and off with the guy he used to work with, but since it's not steady income, we've decided to use that money to save for the honeymoon. After rent and bills, everything out of mine either goes to food or the wedding too...GO AWAY! I know, things could get hairy without health insurance, but the majority of Americans don't have health insurance...so it's not like I'm out of the norm.

:bbeek: ...Sorry... :bbredface: I guess this was driving me more crazy than I thought it was.

[bnd94]

Isn't caller ID the best!! :D

I always give a fake phone number whenever I am on a site that requires it. I figure I contacted them on the web, if they want to contact me they can email me.

Health Insurance is crazy these days! Everytime I turn around it is going up. Right now I am paying around $50 a week. But I know the minute I drop it I will need it. That's just the way my luck goes :bbconfused:

[usahgrad]

Well, I just lost my health insurance less than a month ago. Because I'm not in school anymore, my mother can't keep me on her insurance. I've been taking vitamins and stuff to keep myself healthier and drinking a LOT of orange juice to keep my immune system up. So now all I have to worry about is accidents...that's what scares me...I'm insanely accident-prone and it's been awhile since I've been on crutches, so I've got one due any day now. I hold my breath going up and down steps and driving...lol.

[Jenn060306]

I used to be super accident prone. When i was 13 i broke my arm tripping on a rug. I have been pretty good lately. I'm bad for bumping into things and stubbing toes.
Mark got health coverage this past October which is great. When i'm done school i can move right on to his coverage.

P.S. The phone rang off the hook all day Friday too. Apperently we're popular!

[WebLady]

Isn't caller ID the best!! :D

I always give a fake phone number whenever I am on a site that requires it. I figure I contacted them on the web, if they want to contact me they can email me.

Me too, I love email over the phone anyway ;)

Health Insurance is crazy these days! Everytime I turn around it is going up. Right now I am paying around $50 a week. But I know the minute I drop it I will need it. That's just the way my luck goes

Yep, ours seems to be going up alot too! I pay like $250 a month now! My DH's premium is less! WTF, that is not fair!

I used to be super accident prone. When i was 13 i broke my arm tripping on a rug. I have been pretty good lately. I'm bad for bumping into things and stubbing toes.

When I was about 10-12, I broke my wrist/hand tripping on some wet leaves after it rained. I still have problems with that wrist/hand now.

As for the phone thing ... we seem to get alot of people calling wanting us to do surveys for something. :bbrolleyes:

A friend of ours use to like to mess with phone solicitors ;)

[Jenn060306]

A friend of ours use to like to mess with phone solicitors ;)

Phone solicitors always calling an pronounce Mark's last name wrong so we tell them they have the wrong number. They don't usually call back.
I think the weirdest one i've ever gotten (and they've couple 2 or 2 times now) but they call and ask if we've gotten our freerange beef sample. I don't eat red meat so they usually leave me alone pretty quick when i tell them.

[usahgrad]

Just so you know, if you tell a phone solicitor to remove you from their list and then they call back (after a certain amount of processing time), they're breaking the law...so they don't tend to.

Although it may seem morbid, I LOVE when solictors call asking for my father. The best one ever was :

Solicitor: Hi this is so and so calling from some business. May I speak with Mrs. Lloyd?
Me: No, I'm sorry, she's not here right now (she's standing next to me, but that's beside the point).
Solicitor: Well, is Mr. Lloyd there?
Me: No, he's dead. Gotta phone line to heaven?
Solicitor: Well, no...thank you...*click*

My mother was so shocked...I couldn't figure out what I had done wrong (I think I was like thirteen at the time); I mean, I told the truth. Funny thing was, I don't think we ever got a call from them again. So it worked. :bbmrgreen:

[WebLady]

My FIL had something like that happen not too long ago ... someone called for his wife and he told them she had passed and they just hung up!

I think it is funny when they pronounce my DH's name wrong, I had told someone once that they had the wrong number and then they asked for me ... I told them she didn't live here anymore ;)

Sometimes I will just ask "What are trying to sell me?" That usually throws off their whole spiel ... they get like 'But, huh, no ..." HAHAHA Sometimes I will tell them, "how about you fax me some information and I will look over it" They usually just hang up.

I hate it when they ask for my DH and I tell them he isn't here and may I help ... then I tell them we are not interested and they say "Well do you make all the decisions" OMG, the nerve of these people!

We told one once that we weren't interested in what they were selling and to remove us from their call list and they said it wasn't a list ... so then we said just to not call back then, but they asked for the phone number!

We use to have this little thing that was hooked up to the phone that you could push a button if you thought it was a solicitor and it played a pre-recorded message saying something like "...take us off your list and don't call back"

The ones that bug me are the ones that say they are from my health insurance and want to know if I am happy with my plan and the service I am getting. I say, yeah unless you want to give it to me for less money ;) Then they want me to do a survey ... I don't have time for that mess, what do I get out of it?! *geesh*

Ok, I will stop ... I am glad I don't have that job!

[WhiskeyGirl]

My FIL had something like that happen not too long ago ... someone called for his wife and he told them she had passed and they just hung up!

I think it is funny when they pronounce my DH's name wrong, I had told someone once that they had the wrong number and then they asked for me ... I told them she didn't live here anymore ;)

Sometimes I will just ask "What are trying to sell me?" That usually throws off their whole spiel ... they get like 'But, huh, no ..." HAHAHA Sometimes I will tell them, "how about you fax me some information and I will look over it" They usually just hang up.

I hate it when they ask for my DH and I tell them he isn't here and may I help ... then I tell them we are not interested and they say "Well do you make all the decisions" OMG, the nerve of these people!

We told one once that we weren't interested in what they were selling and to remove us from their call list and they said it wasn't a list ... so then we said just to not call back then, but they asked for the phone number!

We use to have this little thing that was hooked up to the phone that you could push a button if you thought it was a solicitor and it played a pre-recorded message saying something like "...take us off your list and don't call back"

The ones that bug me are the ones that say they are from my health insurance and want to know if I am happy with my plan and the service I am getting. I say, yeah unless you want to give it to me for less money ;) Then they want me to do a survey ... I don't have time for that mess, what do I get out of it?! *geesh*

Ok, I will stop ... I am glad I don't have that job!

My ex-boyfriend used to be a telemarketer and he used to call down to the states. Perhaps you have spoken to him...lol...he's a real :censored: ! God I hate that guy...yeah so anyhow......lmao!

[LaceyinPgh]

The worst for us is our local ballet. Sean and I get season tickets every year. Sean's company also makes a donation to them. Plus they always have these little donation boxes in the lobby that we toss $5 in at every performance. So, that really adds up if you figure in everything. But they call soliciting money all the time. When they have one of their "fund drives" they can call us up to 3-4 times a day if we don't answer the phone. Then if we do answer the phone and explain that we give them plenty of money and the fact that they have a poor manager and director who has runthem into bankrupcy isn't our problem they actually get snippy with us. The one lady actually asked why wouldn't wouldn't give them money and when I explained it to her she had the nerve to say if we could afford to give that much a little more woulnd't hurt. (Is she going to pay my mortgage and keep Ruffles and Ellie in their weekly Dentabones?)

By the way you can request that you be taken off of their call list. If they say that it will take 6 weeks to remove you tell them that is bull and you want off today. Also, tell them that you want in writing a response from them within the week either mailed or faxed to you stating that you have been removed from the list as well. If you have that and they still call, you have a case with them against the FCC. The FCC takes that type of thing VERY seriously these days. Also, if a creditor calls you to harass you for money you have the right to request that they no longer call you home as well. They have to abide by that but they are still allowed to contact you by mail. Again get it in writing and report it should they continue. I had an issue with my student loans (while I was still in school) to the point that I had to hire an attorney to get this creditor to leave me alone. He was hell bent on the fact that he was getting my money (that I didn't owe). Eventually I got him fired, the Dept. of Education investigated to see if they should stop using that collections service, AND I got an apology from the service itself.

[WebLady]

Lacey, we have given donations to places too and get calls to make more and they get snippy when we say gave already :bbrolleyes: Once I let this girl go on and on with her spiel and didn't say anything ... when she was done she thought I hung up and said "That :censored:" I just laughed and hung up for real ... never heard back from them ;)

My ex-boyfriend used to be a telemarketer and he used to call down to the states. Perhaps you have spoken to him...lol...he's a real :censored: ! God I hate that guy...yeah so anyhow......lmao!

LOL, yeah maybe so ... I wonder if it is part of the job description that you have to be an @*! to work for these people *wink*

[usahgrad]

LOL, yeah maybe so ... I wonder if it is part of the job description that you have to be an @*! to work for these people *wink*

Oh dear, I hope not...I sold carpet cleaning over the phone for a little while (then the boss died and the company closed). Anyways, humorous story from the other side:

When we called, we were told to ask for the Missus of the household as they usually handled the cleaning. So on one of my calls I get a male on the phone and I ask if Mrs. So-and-so is there. He says, "Yes, but she's in the closet, where I put her after I killed her..." He's saying this very jokingly and you can hear a woman laughing hysterically in the background...I thought that was a pretty good one to use at some point. ;)