I just got another of our regular calls from our phone company. They call anywhere from once a week to daily to try and get us to add their long distance service. The answer is always "no".
While I wasn't rude, I did feel regretful afterwards. Not because I was emphatic about asking that they don't call again, I regretted that when the caller asked if I made the "phone service decisions" that I didn't answer, "I'm the decider." It's one of my new favorite phrases and I missed the perfect opportunity to use it.
Oh, well. There's always next time. (They haven't done anything about my requests not to receive any more calls before so I'm assuming they won't this time either.)
Next time, after I announce that I'm the decider I'll ask them to check how many long distance calls I make with my landline phone. (None, I rarely call long distance and when I do I use my wireless service at no extra charge.) When the caller says they don't have access to that information, I'll say I watch the news and from what I can tell, everyone has access to my phone records. Then I'll accuse him/her of wanting to spy on me.
I'm almost looking forward to it.
Posted by marybeth at May 19, 2006 02:23 PM Other Stuffi added my phone number to the do not call list and have enjoyed the peace of no telemarketing calls, i was shocked it actually worked, but have fun with the "spy" line :)
Posted by buildings gal at May 22, 2006 04:27 PMWe sined up for the national and our state no call lists but they exempt companies you already do business with. My goal is to be placed on these companies' grumpy-customer-who-will-no-longer-do-business-with-us-if-we-call-again lists.
Posted by marybeth at May 24, 2006 08:57 AM