I let the answering machine pick up the call and they hung up, so moral of the story is, get yourself an answering machine and let it take ALL incoming calls and the unwanted callers will hang up rather than waste their time talking to a machine.
Listen to the incoming call and if you know them and want to speak to them, just pick up the receiver and talk. It's a good idea to tell all your friends, that from now on, the answering machine will answer their call but you will be ready to pick up the receiver when they speak.
If EVERYBODY did this, these COLD CALLING companies will go out of business because they will be spending a fortune on calls with no revenue coming in..........simplesss.
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