After a lull of a few months, the bombardment has begun again. No, we are not talking about Donald Trump’s bombing of North Korea, nor North Korea’s testing of its atomic weapons, or even the evil firing in Las Vegas which killed 58 and injured scores of people last week, it is the incessant ‘phone calls which have started pouring in again.
The callers now ask us to take part in a survey on “save today- how to save money on household services and products”.
Even if I tell the callers that I am not interested in taking part in any survey, they do not want to take no for an answer. These callers have the habit of taking you by surprise at inopportune moments while you are having dinner or are in company or watching your favorite TV programs. Having got fed up, and having drawn a blank in my attempts to stop them, I simply do not answer the phone unless I was expecting calls from someone I knew. Later on I dial 1471 to see who the call was from and then ring back that person.
What is the proper and permanent solution to this as we do not want to be rude to the caller as the poor chap is only trying to earn a living?
I have invested a in a telephone with a “call blocker” but you can only block a call after you have received one.
Dinesh Sheth
Newbury Park, Ilford
