When I think back to when mobile phones weren’t common place, my parents were only contactable at work or at home, never in between. So no calls while your in a meeting, driving, on the toilet, having lunch.

I simply put the phone down these days, no point in wasting my time and my phones battery life on their nonsense.

Its not rude if you just go “thanksforcallingbutnotinterestedbye.click”. If you like, practice saying it in the mirror. I can do that in about 2 seconds So, 5 calls including their introduction will amount to… perhaps less than a minute?

Ross, do you actually have success in getting them off your line in less than 30 seconds? I keep trying and have had no success. They insist and insist and just carry on talking at you.

And it takes time to tell 5 of them a day that you are not interested … especially when it is the same company that called for the same product just a few days ago.

Essentially anything more than that is wasting your time, their time and unless you’re a sloth, time is money.

I think it’s a polite way to end an unsolicited phonecall without too much hassle or time wasted and quite frankly if you just put the phone down after that, you’ve been polite and ended the call, so any retort but the sales person is just met with a dead line.