Since many of them are just random calls, they don't know your name or address - just a phone number. So you give them a fake name and the address of the empty house. If they do call you back and still want to "play" with them - maybe you could tell them it's a flip and the deal fell through and you forgot to cancel. Yes, they can look up the address on Google Maps, but that could be months out of date - so there may be a large window of opportunity.
I wouldn't go messing around, lying, telling half truth, 'playing'...they will never stop calling. Isn't easier to not answer the phone and block number?.
Yes, it would be easier for me. It's also a lot easier for them, too. Especially if they use robo calls. I don't want to make it easy for them. I want to make it hard for them. I want them to have an actual human spend time on as many of the calls they autodial as possible. I want to suck every dollar of profit from them I reasonably can. I want to get additional information from them I can submit to the FTC. I want to publish information others can use to file lawsuits against them. Consider it a public service I'm happy to provide.
Compiling to the BBB is a waste of time unless the business you are complaining about is a "dues paying member" of the BBB--- The higher the dues / donation to the BBB the higher the rating....
Nothing will stop them. They are cloning your number and using it to call someone else. If you call the number they called from, you will end up talking with someone else that is also being harassed by the solar company. It's way illegal, but how do you make it stop.
The answer to all of you folks questions is really very simple, just don't answer a unknown phone number! Now I will admit that might take a little discipline on your part, for after all if its is important they will leave a message and then YOU decide on whether or not to call back, and remember it is your call, no one's else. Got that simple fact yet?
The "simple fact" is a lot of people (myself included) have to answer unknown phone numbers. You know, as part of our job. If I ignore unknown numbers and let the call go to voicemail I would spend way too much time checking the messages. So your "simple fact" isn't so simple after all.
But my private individual home phone service I use for business. I can't just ignore calls that pop up and look like local numbers. Not as easy as you think, Chainsaw.
Even private individuals sometimes have to answer unknown numbers. My mother, for example, has to because she has several doctor's offices she deals with and not all of them identify themselves on the caller ID.
These doctors numbers are not secret, they are advertised and are known to you; they're on the Dr.'s business cards, bills, websites, phone listings, door, prescriptions... Enter them into the units "phonebook" under whatever name you choose and they're no longer "unknown."
As a self-employed freelancer with a single landline for personal and business use, I'm free to not answer any call I choose. I've never had a client, current or potential (or doctor either) ask why I never pick up the phone because legitimate callers ID themselves upfront and, thus, don't get ignored.
Harassing the harassers can get you swatted. Introduce shotguns, flack jackets and nervous people into a situation and things can go bad in a hurry.
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