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Red 
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 Posted: 15 February 2011 at 11:55am |
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I have caller ID so generally don't answer any calls I don't recognise or private numbers. It is very worthwhile!
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RedHeadDuck
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Posted: 15 February 2011 at 12:19pm |
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EmDee
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Posted: 15 February 2011 at 12:48pm |
Eep I didn't know the heat pump one was a scam  Thankfully we get ours serviced through the store we bought it from for about $80.00.
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BessieBear
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Posted: 15 February 2011 at 3:45pm |
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Argh those people are so annoying. We had someone guys ringing in December they rang every night for a weeks or so at the same time. Sometimes there was no one on the phone, you'd say hello and it would be dead. But they kept asking for the main internet user casue they were gettign reporrts abouts viruses on our computer. and they wanted to talk me through fixing it, but i had to go online....... We have dial up so taht wasn't going to work so they asked for a cell number, like hell I was going to give that out to some random. And they would not take no for an answer. I told them I'd get my brother who knew about computers to fix it. *nod nod* Didn't hear back from them
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queenbean
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Posted: 15 February 2011 at 3:59pm |
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They have only rung once here, about a month ago. I got so angry and told them not to f@#$ing ring again, and they haven't!!! So far.
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LittleBug
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Posted: 16 February 2011 at 12:41am |
Ugh, they kept ringing my house, even though I kept telling them I didn't have windows and didn't care if they wanted to do things to my computer, they couldn't.
In the end, I said "wait here a minute"... and left the phone on the coffee table. The guy held on for about ten minutes before hanging up. He never called back. At least I stopped him bugging someone else for ten mins 
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peanut butter
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Posted: 16 February 2011 at 7:00am |
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I've had those too but when they say "can I speak to the owner of the phone" I say "No!" That really confuses them. They then ask if I am the owner of the phone "No" "Oh, is the owner of the phone there" "No" "Oh, when will they be there?" "No!" etc etc etc. I say nothing other than No....if they are lucky otherwise as soon as they ask I hang up. Piss me right off!! We had a run of them 2 a night for a few weeks.
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BessieBear
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Posted: 16 February 2011 at 10:33am |
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Ugh its not just these people it's the blimmin telly marketers. Specially for sky. ringing all the time wanting us to buy stuff.
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astral_monkey
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Posted: 16 February 2011 at 12:23pm |
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I get the odd telemarketer call, but they all seem pretty good, I politely say we're not interested and they thank me for my time.
I only get the scam ones at work (none at home, so far). It's funny getting them all tangled up. I got in an argument with one woman who couldn't answer any of my questions and kept insisting I put her through to the managing director. She ended up hanging up on me. It was fun. Haha.
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minxynzl
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Posted: 18 February 2011 at 1:56pm |
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Its very simple - every company who telemarkets in nz MUST abide by law with the marketing association rules.
Oner of those rules is that a company CANNOT legally call anyone`who has registered their name on the Marketing Associations DO NOT CALL REGISTER. Any phone list they buy/rent must be washe against this list.
So simply go to: http://www.marketing.org.nz/Category?Action=View&Category_id=256
EASY!
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Grrrrr how to stop them ringing???
