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Your call is not important to us...
We’re delighted so many of you have found innovative ways to get rid of irritating telephone salespeople.
Rob Vaudin at Itex was called by a telephone service provider asking if he wanted to switch.
“I very carefully stated to the person at the call centre that I didn’t have any phones in the building. This caused a silence at their end.” And, more important, no follow-up calls.
Martin Kent prefers to say: “just a minute”, as if he is transferring the call, then switches the call to mute. “Come back to the call after a cup of coffee and mutter: ‘is there someone there?’”
He also suggests that embellishments are possible, such as “just a minute, there’s someone at the door” or “the sprinklers have gone off”.
Any more suggestions, please mail them in.
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