Tips To Avoid Telephone Solicitation Calls and to End Them Quickly

Telephone solicitation is one of the plagues of this earth in my opinion. Here is how I avoid telephone solicitation calls or end them very quickly. After I say "hello", if I there is a significant delay before I hear a response, I hang up knowing it is a telephone solicitation call. Very few telephone solicitors actually dial the phone these days. Unfortunately for us, our phone numbers are in huge databases that are automatically dialed for telephone solicitors. When an automatically dialed number is answered, the call is transferred to a human solicitor. These automated systems have a delay while the call is being transferred to a human. If I don't hear a quick response, this tells me that this a telephone solicitor and I hang up. By doing this, I estimate that I avoid 70% of telephone solicitation calls. Are you worried that you might hang up on an important real phone call? Don't worry about that, real people call back, solicitors don't. I estimate that I only hang up on real calls 1 in 50 times. If real people calling are slow to respond, it is because they were fumbling around with a cell phone or they were busy doing something else when they call - and they always call back after being hung up on at which time I apologize for hanging up. So how about the 30% of telephone solicitation calls that I do actually field? That is usually because I was slow in hanging up. If do wind up talking to a solicitor, here is how I end the call almost immediately (without

Never Buy Anything from Telephone or Door-to-Door Solicitation - Seek Out The Service Instead

Protect yourself as a consumer by not buying anything from a telephone solicitor or door-to-door saleperson. While not all telephone solicitors and door-to-door salesman are fraudulent, you have a higher chance of being a victim of fraud by purchasing a product or service over the phone or from someone who knocks on your door. The reason for this higher risk stems from the fact that you are letting the product or service find you, rather than you seeking out that product or service. When services come to you by phone or door-to-door salespeople, you may have very little to trace if something goes wrong. When fraud is being perpetrated, you may have nothing at all or just a phone number and maybe some fake papers. Fly by night services, con-artists and scammers prefer that you don't know where they are operate out of, if they have a location at all. Calling you on the phone and visiting you at your home suits them very well. When you visit a business to seek their services or look them up in a phone book, you have more to trace in the event of that something goes wrong. You have a physical location and at least an address and phone number from a trusted directory. Seek out a service to protect yourself, don't let that service come to you.

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Tips To Avoid Telephone Solicitation Calls and to End Them Quickly

Never Buy Anything from Telephone or Door-to-Door Solicitation - Seek Out The Service Instead