Results: How do you handle unwanted phone calls ( i.e. from private numbers, numbers you don't recognize, telemarketers, wrong numbers and such)?
Published on 02/13/2016
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How do you handle unwanted phone calls ( i.e. from private numbers, numbers you don't recognize, telemarketers, wrong numbers and such)? I only take calls from numbers I recognize.
56%
1176 votes
I hang up on them.
20%
421 votes
I answer & politely give sales people a refusal or inform callers if they've reached a wrong number
22%
452 votes
I blow a loud whistle or horn in their ear to guarantee that they don't call back.
3%
67 votes
Other (please specify)
4%
80 votes
Not Applicable
8%
161 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 0.32% | 7 | |
| Block them | 0.09% | 2 |
| block | 0.09% | 2 |
| answering machine | 0.09% | 2 |
| I do not even pick up the phone. | 0.05% | 1 |
| voice mail | 0.05% | 1 |
| answer tell them wrong number, or take me off their list | 0.05% | 1 |
| Blocking App on Cell. Ask to be removed on Landline | 0.05% | 1 |
| turn off the ringer | 0.05% | 1 |
| I don't have time to answer my phone | 0.05% | 1 |
| IJ use "Mr. Number" to block them. | 0.05% | 1 |
| I answer and see where it goes from there | 0.05% | 1 |
| I prank them | 0.05% | 1 |
| VOIP software takes care of all unwanted calls | 0.05% | 1 |
| ignore | 0.05% | 1 |
| use caller block | 0.05% | 1 |
| put your name on the do not call list | 0.05% | 1 |
| i kick their ass | 0.05% | 1 |
| I talk with them | 0.05% | 1 |
| Depends on time of day and what I'm doing when they call. | 0.05% | 1 |
| by Answering with Police Dept. Fraud Division | 0.05% | 1 |
| add the number as a contact and set the custom ringtone to mute | 0.05% | 1 |
| block the number for the future | 0.05% | 1 |
| Let it go to voicemail | 0.05% | 1 |
| Tell them to put me on their "No Call" list | 0.05% | 1 |
| Telemarketers I hang up, others I joke with | 0.05% | 1 |
| I've put the phone down, and also made believe, that I was a crying baby...lol... | 0.05% | 1 |
| block their number | 0.05% | 1 |
| to not answer unknown callers | 0.05% | 1 |
| harass them back | 0.05% | 1 |
| I keep my phone turned off,it goes to voice mail. | 0.05% | 1 |
| if they call too often, i answer and ask to be placed on their do not call list | 0.05% | 1 |
| start talking about an irrelevant subject | 0.05% | 1 |
| i have a call blocker | 0.05% | 1 |
| tell them am on do not call list .... | 0.05% | 1 |
| Pick up/hang up so they don't call back as unanswered call | 0.05% | 1 |
| I block them | 0.05% | 1 |
| Have an anti-telemarketer device where can immediately block them | 0.05% | 1 |
| Tell them the truth, whatever it is about | 0.05% | 1 |
| if I am in the mood, I will ask them for their number at home and tell them I will call them back at a time inconvenient for them | 0.05% | 1 |
| I hang up before I talk to them | 0.05% | 1 |
| If I answer, I ask them to remove my number from their call list | 0.05% | 1 |
| leave them hanging on | 0.05% | 1 |
| Put me on your do not call list immediately! | 0.05% | 1 |
| I burp or fart into the phone. | 0.05% | 1 |
| I answer and tell them not to call me again | 0.05% | 1 |
| depends | 0.05% | 1 |
| Love to play games with telemarketers, i.e., if they call from the phone company, I thank them for calling and ask if they received my money and thank them for not shutting off my phone and just keep talking faster and faster until they are flustered | 0.05% | 1 |
| I don't answer | 0.05% | 1 |
| I listenn long enough to know who's calling (don't have caller ID) and if it's a salesman, I hang up. | 0.05% | 1 |
| I occasionally answer numbers i don't recognize | 0.05% | 1 |
| tell them no thank you | 0.05% | 1 |
| If I don't know who the caller is, I don't answer. | 0.05% | 1 |
| I block them so they can't call me. | 0.05% | 1 |
| I add them to my reject list so they don't even ring through. | 0.05% | 1 |
| use a ansewing macnine | 0.05% | 1 |
| let the answering machine screen calls | 0.05% | 1 |
| wondering machine | 0.05% | 1 |
| INFORM THEY HAVE CALLED A NUMBER IN THE DO NOT CALL LIST | 0.05% | 1 |
| THEY ARE BLOCKED | 0.05% | 1 |
| I let them talk for a little while and hang up. | 0.05% | 1 |
| i like to act as tho i am challenged and don't understand or hear what they are trying to sell me | 0.05% | 1 |
| put the number on my rejectcall list | 0.05% | 1 |
| I annoy them | 0.05% | 1 |
| goes to my answering machine | 0.05% | 1 |
| block of keep calling after trying to be nice | 0.05% | 1 |
| Don't answer | 0.05% | 1 |
| *77 | 0.05% | 1 |
| I ask if they have ever heard of the "Do not Call" list. | 0.05% | 1 |
| i got a block on my phone so private nubers cant call | 0.05% | 1 |
| If I do pick up the phone, I politely tell them thank you, but I'm not interested | 0.05% | 1 |
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