Nonsense Calls

[carolegif]

Not only content with calling several times over the afternoon and evening, they called at 8am this morning.
I am not interested in - solar panels/PPI compensation/double glazing/new roof sealing/PPI compensation/do a survey/answer political oarties' questions!

We even have the preference service but to no avail,

[ummmm]

These type of calls will eventually kill off the landline...

[TWR]

Carole, I have just bought a 8500 BT phone, no more call from the likes of these people, I have put a post on here somewhere regards this, the phone cost £44.00 well worth it.

[janbee]

We keep our answering machine on at all times and screen all calls., so not a problem anymore.

[Jackdaw33]

According to the info on the web site does not actually block calls, it automatically asks who is calling then announces it to you so you then have the option of blocking. This means you will still get the calls but do not have to accept them.

[Baldric]

TWR's Post about BT8500 'phone.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Question1401478.html

(FGs TWR, please find out how to do links, it really is one of the easiest computing actions going!)

[Tilly2]

I have one of those Bt phones. It does automatically block International and mobile phone numbers.

[Hopkirk]

Why would you want to block mobile phone calls?

[Tilly2]

Because some of the calls are unwanted. If I want to allow them, I put them on my allowed list.

[B00]

I found the only solution was to do away with a house phone altogether! Can honestly say I don't miss it either.

As long as you've the actual phone line ( for t'internet) and mobile phones there's no need for them in this day and age.

[ummmm]

We don't have a landline either. My kids have contract phones whereas me and him have PAYG. We've got it the wrong way round...lol

[melv16]

Caller display is the one I use. If a call gets through I give them my chicken impression:)

[B00]

lol ummmm, yes you have!

I have a contract phone, Mr Boo has PAYG and a work phone and that'll do us. Mini Boo is constantly harassing me for a phone, but at 10 and still in primary school I don't see the need so she's not having one for at least a year- apparently, im mean, lol.

[TWR]

That's a nice way to call your beloved Ummmm " HIM" X

[B00]

She doesn't call her beloved "him" TWR, she calls her fella that ;-)

[mikey4444]

Forget all about the Telephone Preference Service. It is a paper tiger and next to useless. UK firms will routinely ignore it and foreign firms don't even know of its existence.

The only sure way of dealing with this is to take the phone off the hook, and leave it off. That is what I have been doing for 2 years now. I have told everybody that I know personally, that if they wish to speak to me, they will need to use my Mobile. They can call or text me. If its important, I can always put the phone back on the hook and call them back.

It did take a while for people to cotton on, and there are still a few people that baulk at paying the extra to call my Mobile but its the only way that I can have some peace.

Sometimes I will use the phone myself but forget to take it off the hook afterwards, and within minutes the nuisance calls start again. Its a modern plague !

[TWR]

09.46 BOO!!!! I'm not that IZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZED yet lol

[B00]

mikey "The only sure way of dealing with this is to take the phone off the hook, and leave it off."

Why have one then? Just unplug the darned thing!

[TWR]

2 Years Mickey!! Tell them to take the phone out, cut your line, you are paying money for nothing.

[B00]

don't cut the line, you'll need it for the internet. Just unplug the phone and put it in the bin.

[Baldric]

If you leave your 'phone off the hook don't you get a Claxton type warning noise to let you know it's off?
Two years of that must have been really annoying, enough to drive anyone craz.. . . . . . . . . . . . . oh yeh!!