[VoIP] Fun with Pat and Jane

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Ian,

You are a man after my own heart!

Brian

Ian Jolly wrote:
> Both my home telephone number and one of my mobile numbers appear in our 
> telephone directory in the UK.
>
> The predictive dialler usually calls my home number first and it is usually 
> 'double glazing' or 'cheap phone calls'.   I don't give them the chance to 
> start their spiel  !  " Sorry - Not interested " and down goes the phone.
>
> A couple of minutes later, the mobile phone goes as they work down the list. 
> "Ah - cheap double glazing/phone calls/line rental- Tell me all about it"
>
> I then keep them taking as long as possible making them think I'm 
> interested.  Once they think they've convinced me, I point out that their 
> offer of  'Free windows at the rear of the house if you buy those at the 
> front'  (or the like) isn't much use to me - I'm camping in a tent in the 
> Highlands of Scotland !
>
> What they don't realise is the cost of the call!  Here in the UK the caller 
> pays the whole of the cost of the call to a mobile phone and the number I 
> use costs them approx 30p per minute compared with about 1p per minute to a 
> landline!  Longest call I managed was for cheap line rental on my landline - 
> kept him going for an hour !  :-)))
>
> Ian J