Anyone else getting these calls

We tell them we are about to move. It seems to do the trick.

When it is a recorded call, you can't tell them anything, in any language, and when it is "out of area" you can't even block it.

I have stopped lifting the receiver when the caller id shows "out of area".

Since I bought my new cordless BT phone a month ago life here has been quieter because I can block out International and numbers witheld.The phone rings once and then it takes over.

A fellow rang me a few weeks ago trying to sell me stocks and shares in diamonds and also wine with little risk to myself financially. I tried putting on my poor pensioner cap but that did not work so I said that I preferred to wear the diamonds and drink the wine, that got rid of him.

House phone rang at lunchtime, showed private caller so I answered. It was not a private caller it was a company trying to ascertain what work I would like doing on the house, none I have just had it completely refurbished. Not content caller asked when I would be next changing the new windows and kitchen, NEVER, so she then asked how much I paid for electricity and who with ? I then switched her off. This woman was very determined but it only makes me more resolute, cold call me and I will never ever use your company

I've had several so called researchers. When I say I'm tps, they hang up!

There is another type doing the rounds. They say they're the Industrial Deafness Association or something similar and ask about your time working in factories. They make it sound as if they know but really they're cold calling because if you say you've never worked in a factory they end the call.

Sorry Galen I do not understand what tps is.

I have had a call this week from someone who said she had had several reports of a high volume of this sort of call in my area and her company would solve the problem for something around £2 a month. I told her the tps would do it free(not that they are presently) and she rang off.

Telephone Preference Service. You register with them and all the cold callers are meant to check and not ring people registered with them. It is useless as it fines so few companies for cold calling that companies now ignore it.

No one there is usually the result of an automatic dialler, that, lets say, calls 40 numbers,but they only have 20 operators. When 20 people, like ourselves have answered, the next 20 have no one to speak to them so the 'phone remains silent.Later it may catch up with you and you have several nuisance calls.
If I have time and feel in the mood, I like, when a male voice speaks, to say quickly, and throatily,"I've asked you not to call me at home, what we had was wonderful but it's over, don't call again".
The ones who say you have something wrong with your computer and they will talk you through it to repair it ,are good too.If they mention windows, I tell them I've got some and funnily enough am looking through one at that moment, before they can interrupt, I tell them the colour how many panes, and before long they have hung up.Or you can go along and pretend you are following their instructions to repair it, asking them all sorts of stupid questions until they give up.(hope this doesn't sound as if I am sneering)

Unfortunately, TPS doesn't stop you getting calls from overseas sources.

Or from people doing 'surveys' as job from a private number.

My mother was incensed by a caller from a carpet cleaning company who said a neighbour had reported her carpets were dirty. What! my mother's! - you could eat off them!

My DDH used to 'talk' in a silly language which actually sounds like a spoken language. He has started to use this when being 'annoyed' by cold calls, They don't stay on the phone long as they cannot understand a word he says.

Say 'I'm so sorry but I'm rather busy at the moment. If you give me your phone number, I'll call you back as soon as I can.' Listen to the silence, then hang up.

My reply to cold callers selling anything to do with the house is to say,' Oh! I'm so sorry, !'m afraid we're a grade 1 listed building''

DH gets a lot of 'boiler room' calls, those companies that ring up and try to get him to buy dud shares.

My current tactics when the ask to speak to Mr FlicketyB is to say baldly. 'He's dead' and when one of them pushed and asked when he died I said 'this morning'. that gets them off the phone andmight even get his name off their list. DH is thinking he might use the same tactic and just say 'I am dead' and see how they respond.

I've enjoyed telling nuisance callers "I'm sorry - we're not on the telephone" and ending the call while they digest that...

I joined the telephone preference service many years ago and very rarely receive nuisance calls. When I do I ask for their name and company name first then tell them I will be reporting them. They apologise, I tell them to remove me from their database and that seems to be it. It may be worth asking your bank if they have sold your contact details to marketing databases, they often do, and if so consider changing bank. Sadly it is a multi billion pound business and deficult for organisations to resist - including I might add your local council who may also sell on your electoral roll records unless you specifically request they do not. Vigilance is required in all that we do in this day and age.

We are signed up for the telephone Preference Service but most of these calls come from abroad so are unaffected by TPS rules.

I just leave the line open and walk away from the 'phone. 2 or 3 minutes usually does the trick and the unwanted callers hang up.

The calls that really annoy me are the ones that ask for the previous owner of my number. I've had my number almost 10 years!!!

Deserving I really could not through all those tactics !!
I have a life !!

We regularly get calls that just consist of an intermittent high-pitched beeping noise (not engaged tone). If we do 1471 we learn that the caller has withheld their number. We just cut the call off now - no idea what is causing it.

FlicketyB - to be fair I don't recall any calls from abroad and I guess I have not had a nuisance call for 6 months or more now so I don't know what I am doing unless of course it's because I don't do a lot - online or otherwise. Long may it continue like that.