Cold callers - any way of getting rid of these in a *nice* way?

[heylottie]

I am on maternity leave with first baby due on Friday - yay me. So far I have enjoyed my three weeks off, apart from one thing...

My sofa lounging and cake eating has been consistantly interrupted by cold calls. Some of them are silent (I assume it is a computer doing the calling from a call centre thing), others are from BT, Anglia and so on. One is from a credit card company who phone THREE TIMES A DAY wanting to speak to DH about his credit limit. I tell them he is AT WORK and to call back later but no...

I tell BT etc all very nicely to go away but still they phone back, all faux bonhommie and hail fellow well met. I can't just NOT answer the phone as some of my friends and family have that number withheld thing, so if I avoided the phone I wouldn't speak to anyone, IYSWIM

So the latest person who called, wanting to speak to DH, I said "hold on, I will get him' and then left the phone in the kitchen. Half an hour later I hung up. Would this have meant they couldn't have made any other phone calls?

What else can I do? It is sending my BP soaring...

Lol @ feenie !!

Some are fun. We are registered with tos but some get thru. DAY once told a v young sounding caller that we lived in a cave so didn't need double glazing or a new door but if he knew where to find a really massive stone he would do business with them

I would take up the telephone preference service so that you don't get them. Failing that just say 'I'm not interested, thank you' and put the phone down-immediately.