How many numbers do you have blocked on your home phone?

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• sharkhunter

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  9 years ago

  If a phone manufacturer ever reads this, the Panasonic phone set could be upgraded to not ring at all if a number is blocked. I don't want to hear it at all if blocked. I still hear one ring if the ringer is not turned off for all calls.
• sharkhunter

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  9 years ago

  Also a single button or two to block or unblock numbers would be helpful.
• gawker

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  9 years ago

  I have more than 90 numbers blocked on my cell phone. The majority are "pharmaceutical" companies which I may or may not have done business with in the past. I've been buying Viagra online for years and frankly never paid much attention to what the company name was. Recently I bought 60 100mg. From Global Pharmacy and within a week I had a call from Canadiens Pharmacy and told the salesman that I do business with Global. He then said he was from Global Pharmacy and located my account. My conclusion: there's only a few online pharmacies doing business as many different names.
  The rest of my blocked numbers are selling solar power installations.
• Clubber

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  9 years ago

  "Home phone?" Really?
• crazyjoe

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  9 years ago

  Ask for their credit card number. Or their home number so you can call them at your convenience. If they give it to you drink dial them after clubbing at 2 am
• shailynn

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  9 years ago

  Gawker buying Viagra in bulk!!!! Yeah I hope I have to do that someday too...
• crazyjoe

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  9 years ago

  My dick is healthy and hard as a rock. I don't need no stinking viagra
• sclvr5005

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  9 years ago

  If your landline is a VoIP, use the NoMoRoBo site to set up a great way to stop robo calls. It automatically stops all crap calls after the first ring. I know that it works with AT&T. Don't know about Fios/Verizon.
• rockstar666

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  9 years ago

  "Home phone"? I have 5000 unheard messages because anyone who knows me calls my cell. If they call the house it's spam. I would have dumped the land line 10 years ago if I had a say in the matter.
• rockstar666

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  9 years ago

  @Gawker: Yes I too indulge and yes, they call you mercilessly which is why I tell everyone to give a fake cell #.
• sharkhunter

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  9 years ago

  I'm actually a bit anti social which is probably more of a reason I have yet to buy a smart phone or cell phone. I would mainly use it for the Internet. I don't care to talk to most people. I ad no phone in college for months at a time but that was because the dorm building was old and had outdated tech even at that time. It was annoying trying to use a pay phone in the building lobby to order pizza. The university installed suite phones afterwards. Then room phones the following year. I liked one phone per suite. I never had to answer. Someone always seemed to be in the hallway suite. One of my friends asked how come a girl always answers since he was calling an all male suite. I was thinking because we have a girl in the hallway almost all the time. That's what I called service. Never got any scam calls. To be fair the girls were not always in the hallway. They just answered the one phone ringing while all of us guys sat around. One guy had like 8 girlfriends too. I only had one or two stopping by to visit. Phones were expensive and all calls charged by the minute unless local.
  
  I plan on getting a smart phone sometime.
• lopaw

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  9 years ago

  "I would have dumped the land line 10 years ago if I had a say in the matter."
  
  Boy, do I hear that, rockstar.
  I would have dumped our spam & robo called landline years ago but my wife insists on keeping the damn thing.
• georgmicrodong

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  9 years ago

  Well, depending on how you look at it, either none, or all of them. I no longer have a landline. I just couldn't see paying the extra $50 per month.
• Clubber

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  9 years ago

  rock,
  
  Comes with my internet service. I have a fax hooked to, nothing more. I actually use the fax at times.
• rockstar666

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  9 years ago

  Clubber, fax is old technology now. I scan everything and send as an attachment. Much easier to create folders with all this info in an easy to find place.
• Estafador

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  9 years ago

  the only use for a landline anymore is for emergency phone calls. In today's case, for when isis bombs your local cell phone provider station.