Phone calls that are recordings--------

I Hate this !!! Its bad enough that normal marketers ring, now there are these recording and the nerve sometimes to tell me to hold...Geez....I just hang up on them..

We don't have those in the Philippines - I guess it's because whoever does it will get a really bad reputation. We don't like those kinds of stuff and we don't like listening to the people whom we're not related to or anyone that we don't *have* to listen to - so prerecorded whatever are out of the question. And the kids would most likely create pranks about them and that's what we'd like to listen to instead to laugh about the stupid companies who waste other people's time and annoy us :D Thanks for the comment on my discussion!

I do exactly the same thing, I hang up the minute I hear it. nice to see you back again hon.

I love to just block their calls when I get them. I use PhoneTray, I had a discussion on hear a few months back. Feel free to visit (and comment if you wish): http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1445959.aspx We hardly get ANY telemarketing calls, only survey calls of the companies we've registered with, and calls from family. We are on the "do not call list" (USA), UK has similar list as well. When we do get a acll we don't want we just block it with the PhoneTray. Have a nice day. Pablo

Those kind of phone calls really annoy me as well. I also pretty much hang up right away. I also hate them because sometimes it takes time for the recording to start and then I am sitting there going Hello, Hello, Hellooooooooooo, only to hear a recorded voice come on the phone. It makes me so mad, I don't have time to wait for a stupid recorded voice to come on. The whole thing does not even make sense to me, who really wants to buy something from a recording?

Great discussion,I had a similar experience but this time it was with my cell phone company.Apparent;y they were having a marketing blitz for the christmas season and thought it was a goood idea to do so on their customers cellphone.Mind you I am not against getting an opportunity to win something from my cellphone company but the way they did it was really annoying.What they did was ring up your number and you would answer thinking it was a legitimate call only to get a recording telling you of the prizes you could win.This is extremely annoying because you may be expecting an imprtant call and this prevents you from getting it .In addition you answer the phone like an idiot saying hello ,hello when its a recording. Have a blessed season.

I hate phone calls like the ones you speak of they are just so cold there is no humanism to them. I just hang up sometimes I will put it on speaker phone until the end of it and they either just say good bye or they hook you up with a real person usually I hang up before that part comes up.

Well, those can be very fun because you can say whatever you want to them and they won't get offended. But I agree with you, I don't see how they are making any sales this way, but they must be doing it!