I get calls from an outfit called consumer services, telling me that I should use them to keep my credit card clean.  I started using a coach's whistle to give them an earful, but they continued.............now I've graduated to an air horn.

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@j*oono wrote:

It doesn't matter if you are on the do not call register because scammers ignore it 😄

 

If it really was Telstra then they can call you if you are a customer anyway, unless you tell them that you don't want their calls. Then the register rules apply to them too... apparently.

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The toddler is more than happy to take the calls. He just thinks he's so special when these people call him for a chat, shows them his tractors and cows then tells them about his plans for the day before saying bye bye and hanging up.

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@kopenhagen5 wrote:

Last time I said to the caller, So there is a problem with my computer? and they replied YES, turn it off now.

 

I answered, "Well that's amazing, because we don't have a computer". (kinda true, only laptops):smileyvery-happy:

 

Telemarketer said, sorry sorry and hung up. Never had those types again.

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When I told a telemarker that I didn't have a computer he replied "But madam everyone has a computer"

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@kopenhagen5 wrote:

Last time I said to the caller, So there is a problem with my computer? and they replied YES, turn it off now.

 

I answered, "Well that's amazing, because we don't have a computer". (kinda true, only laptops):smileyvery-happy:

 

Telemarketer said, sorry sorry and hung up. Never had those types again.

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At least yours said sorry.

Not to long ago I had similar calls from 'Telstra' (ha) about my computer internet connection.  I had a computer. OK...but I hadn't yet got connected to the internet.  (I was surfing it for free at the library).  The supposed Telstra employee had an Indian accent so thick I found it hard to understand what he was saying.  I did however get the bit where he told me his name was Trevor!  I don't think so......

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@this-one-time-at-bandcamp wrote:

I get calls from an outfit called consumer services, telling me that I should use them to keep my credit card clean.  I started using a coach's whistle to give them an earful, but they continued.............now I've graduated to an air horn.

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Just wondering......

And if that ceases to work, what's next????

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@aps1080 wrote:
Oh yes, you can have such fun with some of these calls.

And if it all gets too much, you can just hang up LOL

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I had one and he started off by telling me I was going to get a cheaper rate on my local calls as I was such a good payer.  I started to ask him where he got that information from, I just kept asking him the question which he wasn't answering in the end he said he couldn't talk to me any longer as I was TOO CONFRONTATIONALIST and he hung up on me.  How rude of him.