Receiving Marketing calls on a busy day at home? How do you react?

I share your frustration about those annoying nonsense cold calls that brutally break into our daily life without any regard for our privacy whatsoever. The evil greedy telecom companies that would not allow us to bar unwanted calls unless we paid a fee. They love those call centres because they pay them a lot and each of those calls to my cellphone cost me money. I would like to call on every citizen out there. Please, I ask you, do not do business with any of those cold calls. If they got no business from making those calls, the whole calling centre business will shutdown and we can enjoy our peace in our own house again. Thank you. If I have the time, I would let them finish their sales talk, ask a whole lot of questions and stall forever until they lose their patience and hang up. Muhahahaha!

well it used to bother me because i would get telemarkting calls like 5 times a day and i still do but anyway with caller id i just ignore them. or if they tick me of enough i pick up and hang up.you should try it u will get less calls :P

Not only busy weekends, I’m annoyed by such marketing calls any time of the day. Its so frustrating to rush to answer your mobile only to find its some trash call which you don’t want at all. It happens all the time…either the mobile company is calling up for latest caller tunes and other services or some credit card company is calling up or some insurance agent is trying to sell some policy. And yes, no matter how many times you tell them not to send such calls, it all falls on deaf ears.

May be you guys must be accidentally subscribing the issues concerned with that marketing people.. So I think its better to take things direct to the marketing people. Tell them not to call you or any other persons who don't really make the people go crazy. I think this will solve your problem with no effort. Thanks.

well i usually do not entertain them. And sometimes they will trick you on calling about something important. well the examples that they did are: telemarketer: i am calling because of an important notice about (name)'s calling card I am a little smart about it now so when they say this question i usually ask if what kind of important notice. If they don't want to answer i usually hangup the phone.

Just relax. Having a positive attitude will give you a more relaxed weekend even with annoying phone calls. They are just doing there jobs to annoy you. Just kidding. You planned your day a busy day. so thats what you get. =) Cheers

I usually don't receive these calls probably because I'm still a student. But I do receive other overseas calls from unknown people and most probably it's a scam so what I do is just press the reject button on my cell phone and leave it.

They really are annoying. Plus, they would try very hard to ensure you listen to end, which were very long speech with complete details of everything and refused to stop even though you're hinting that you're not interested to continue the conversation. Once, I did plainly said I wasn't interested in one call from a life insurance company before she finished describing the whole scheme and she rudely responded, "So you don't mind if you meet an accident today and not insured?" What??? I'll get one if I what one. Stop being a big mouth or physic. You don't even know your fate. Still, that didn't stop the other calls from coming.

Wow, you answer those? It's harassment, plain and simple. Your right, people have things to do and it's rediculous. I'm tired of them as well.