Persistence or Harrassment

For some strange reason I felt that this was something I should put out there and see what kind of feedback I get…if any. Just to put things into perspective I will explain a bit, my home phone is really only in existence for emergencies and potential job interviews. Neither of which happen very often and my home phone may go for more than a month without receiving a single call. Any calls that come in on my land line are either someone trying to sell me something or someone wanting a favour from me. Because of this I do not pay attention to my land line unless I am expecting a call so I tend to either miss the calls or I will call screen using my Call Display.

Over the past week a single number keeps calling and I will admit the first 8-10 times I genuinely missed the calls as I was either out or otherwise indisposed and not able to answer the phone. I have noticed in the past that these particular calls hang up after a certain number of rings and never leave a message. (Mostly these are dialed automatically so they are programmed to hang up before the answering machine kicks in) Also in every case the calls stop after a certain number of unsuccessful attempts. After the first number of calls last Friday, the calls started again on Monday with 5 on Monday, 4 on Tuesday, more on Wednesday and Thursday until I caught a call on Thursday night at 7:30pm. The call was from my friendly telephone company Telus and according to them I was a very special customer. So special that they had to try and call me more than 20 times within 5 days.

The call was about adding to my service so like I said someone trying to sell me something. I guess I wish I was not so special.