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Death&Taxes (talk|edits) said: | 22 January 2007 |
| Football over and Monday is here. I know because the telephone calls are coming again. Not from clients but from 'This is Sasheena, can I speak to the person who orders your printer supplies?' 'No you can't; the hogs just ate him.' Click. Five years ago the calls were from people trying to slam you and change your Long Distance service. Now it's these idiots calling from what sounds like Bangalore judging by the reception on my phone. Oh what fun it is to own your own business. | |
| 22 January 2007 | |
| D&T - did you ever register with the "Do Not Call Registry". Once you are registered they cannot call you to sell you anything, unless they already have a prior business relationship with you. If they do, you can report them and they will have to pay a heavy fine. It should limit your calls to clients and the few vendors whom you have used in the past who want to know if you are ready to re-order. Hope your phone continues to ring off the hook - this time with well-paying customers! Good luck! | |
Death&Taxes (talk|edits) said: | 22 January 2007 |
| Our personal phone is registered, but not my business phone. And registering does not prevent every police/fire support organization in New Jersey from calling because they are charity. Once you give in to one of them, they all hound you. Hope I don't offend anyone because the individuals in those lines of work are often our heroes, but not these fund raisers. | |
| January 22, 2007 | |
| The Do Not Call Registry really doesn't work that well. I registered both of my phone lines years ago, and I still receive solicitation calls often (and unwanted faxes almost daily to my 2nd line--even after I've made many calls to the "remove" phone numbers on the faxed letters to remove my phone number from their list). | |
Death&Taxes (talk|edits) said: | 22 January 2007 |
| I have no qualms about saying "bye bye" and hanging up, but now that most clients contact me by email, I would bet 2/3rds of my calls are junk except during the final three weeks to the deadline. Junk faxes! Every morning about 9:15 I get one about trips to the Bahamas, and then at midday the refinance your house offers come. Night is the boiler room stock market touts. Oddly one legitimate mortgage company sends applications etc to me, but they are for another accountant that I don't know. I call them; they apologize but maybe once a month I get one. | |
| January 22, 2007 | |
| I quit calling the "remove" phone numbers, because I decided that wasting paper for the junk faxes was better than wasting my time calling them back, especially after I realized my fax number wasn't being removed from their junk mail lists when I did waste my time making those calls. So, now I'm wasting both your time and my time by posting this message.
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| 22 January 2007 | |
| I made a mistake by putting up my cell phone on advert on a local classifieds. T_T | |
| January 22, 2007 | |
| I don't think I'll ever let anyone know my cell phone number, because I keep it in my car only in the case I need to call 911 (which I did once, when I saw a car that had rolled over on a highway I was driving on one night at 1:00 am. It was amazing that the driver and four kids inside the Yukon were not hurt.) Actually, I brought my cell phone into my office this morning to use to make long-distance calls (to use up my Virgin Mobile credits that I have to pay for every quarter), so people with caller ID will know the number (that I never answer). | |
| January 22, 2007 | |
| Kentucky has a very good "no not call Registry" It's suppost to be more restrictive than the Federal Registry. | |
Death&Taxes (talk|edits) said: | 22 January 2007 |
| We get 500 minutes on our cellphones, the two of us. I have months where my usage is less than 10. Cingular rollover: we are around 1500-1800 minutes available. I do take it to my other office and put the # on the appointment reminder....most of the clients lose the reminder anyway. Never answer it when it rings here. No it is not a business phone! I can't justify it but it is a necessity of life, just as I can't see anyone in this area not having an EZ-Pass on their car for the GS Parkway, the NJ Turnpike, the bridges to Philly and NY. | |
Bottom Line (talk|edits) said: | 23 January 2007 |
| I don't even bother telling the solicitors that I'm not interested.I just hang up. You usually get a clue from the delay between when you say hello and they start speaking. That's the automatic dialers. Unfortunately can't stop them on business line. The one that I hate is Verizon trying to sell their DSL garbage! I get that at least once a day. Last fall I did ask one of them "If the product is so good, why do you have to market it so hard?" Didn't have an answer and I hung up!! | |
| January 23, 2007 | |
| I almost always hang up without saying anything, but once in awhile, I'll ask them if they are a solicitor and then tell them I don't talk to solictors. I love Caller ID! When it's not tax season, and when it says "unknown caller", I won't even answer the phone.
My only child (a son) just told me via Yahoo Messenger that I'm going to be a grandma for the 2nd time - due date around 09/24. The first was a boy born on Thanksgiving in 2005. | |
| January 23, 2007 | |
| Thanks! I'm excited and glad they are keeping the due dates away from January through April. :) | |
Bottom Line (talk|edits) said: | 23 January 2007 |
| Unfortunately I have a couple of clients that have programed their phones to say "unknown caller" or "private". | |
Death&Taxes (talk|edits) said: | 23 January 2007 |
| Deb: I worked for a man from 1969-81 who married when the filing deadline was March 15th [did you know that really was so]. He and wife chose March 20th so they could always celebrate after the deadline. Hah!!! Congratulations!
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Bottom Line (talk|edits) said: | 23 January 2007 |
| I married on April 17. Threw it together in five weeks because the place where we wanted to get married was being sold. Had 150 guests! Fortunately my husband did most of the planning!! | |
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