Overseas sales phone calls

Hee hee :) What a laugh! I'll have to remember that one. I'm glad someone enjoys having fun with these fellas! BTW: I think it's Dalhousie, not 'Dailhousie' - perhaps that's why they couldn't find it ;)

I had one a few years back offering some wine tasting winery tour - couldn't think of a more boring way to spend a weekend. I politely said "no thanks" and hung up but my brother told me I should have counter-offered a weekend camping package, somewhere with 'flush-free' loos, running water (in the creek), 5 billion+ star 'resort' etc.!

Burra,

I was forever getting the annoying Mumbai calls between 7-7.30 p.m. until I registered on the governments "Don't Call Me" web site. Seeing your post has just made me realise that I haven't had a call in months. From three a night to nothing. Hey it really does work.

Cheers Mick

i was getting heaps of annoying calls from phone providers...yelling and screaming at them and the supervisors just seemed to escalate the number of calls from south melbourne - iceland...(cant understand why they all had accents... didnt think the vic was overrun with indians)

then I said that my line was being monitored for incoming calls by my provider (Telstra, which i did take out) and they stopped very abruptly...only received two more calls and none since

now to figure out how to get rid of the junk mail that comes thru on the fax....!????

You have your bit of 'fun' doing that too?
I have had a few similar calls about holidays in hotel chains.

They talk about cheap holidays, and I just say we go camping, but they have to try and sell you something.

At the beginning I usually put the phone on speaker phone, tell them any time they want they can hang up, and at the start say my answer is no.

I keep doing what I am doing, and ask those sort of questions.
When they ask where do i go, I use as many aboriginal names as I can, like Borooloola, and Innamincka. It ends up being a good geography lesson for them on Australia. Some will even talk about where they are based.

It always ends up that what they want to sell you for two nights keeps us on the road for a week.