Ask Lemmy

You don’t own the property, so tell them you’re willing to sell, go through whatever process they give you, wasting as much of their time as you are willing to, then inform them that they’ll have to talk to the owner to finalize the deal.

Assuming USA, sue them. They owe you $500 per call after your number has been on the do-not-call registry for 31 days or after you told them not to call you again. If the violation was willful, they owe $1500 per call.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_Consumer_Protection_Act_of_1991

A while ago, there was a story about a man who made pretty good money from filing lawsuits against companies that ignored his do-not-call requests. If the laws still allow it, it might be a good way to make them stop.

I believe that all he had to do was to keep notes about the businesses and numbers that called him and when he asked them to add him to their do-not-call lists.

I tell them I'm accepting offers of $2,000,000+. My home is worth about $100,000.

I consider it my civic duty to waste as much of their time as possible. It can also serve as an outlet for creativity and have a bit of fun. Think of it as a reverse prank call.

I think my favorite was when they called on my work phone and I tried to set them up as a customer, with my most pleasant voice asking about their billing address and quoting our consulting fees and that I'd be happy to answer any question they wanted as soon as they were set up as a customer. They told me to fuck off and hung up 15 minutes later.

This was happening to me (although maybe not at that frequency). I ended up googling the property they kept asking about and found some site (clustrmaps.com) that had incorrectly associated my contact info with the property. I wrote to the company from a contact us page on their site and requested they correct the data removing my name and phone number from the property. They wrote back apologizing for the error and confirming that they had removed my info.

Have you tried searching for that property online? I wonder if you might have a similar problem where they could remove your info from that property.

I always tell them $750k cash, non sequential bills, come alone, no cops. And if they say that's too much, relentlessly mock them for being poor until they hang up.

accept selling the propeety and ghost them at an in person meetup /s

Threaten then with legal action. If they're smart that should be enough; if they aren't, sue them.

Tips:

• Most places in the world have laws against against disturbance of peace. Check the ones that apply to you, and mention them as you're telling them to stop calling you.
• Start recording their calls as proof. Make sure to consistently say "do not call me further". Depending on the place you might need to include some warning like "your call is being recorded".
• If you can't/don't want to record them, at the very least annotate when they call you, and keep every single piece of text that they send you.

Tell them you will sell it for 2x what they offer and only go up from there every time they try to haggle.

Report them to the state attorney general

So if you’ve filled a do not call, why aren’t you following up on that?

Go contact whoever operates your DNC and find out what options are available to enforce it.

"I am reporting this call to the FTC."

donotcall.gov

If you want, you can also attempt to get a callback number and company name, state they are registered in before telling them you are reporting the call.

The more info you can report the better.

that means you also have their number right?

make a craigslist listing with content like "free concrete mixer" "free plushies" or something like that and their number as contact info, won't work on robocalls probably

the effect is twofold: first they will get calls (originating from real numbers) from cheapskates wanting their freebies. then their number may be picked up by a crawler and get cold calls from unrelated spam operations. this all in addition to figuring out what just happened

Sometimes when I get a call from an unfamiliar number with my area code (I don't live there anymore so it's always a scam spoofing a nearby number) I roleplay as a 911 operator and don't drop the act until they hang up, threaten them with penalties for wasting public resources and such. It's probably not strictly legal but they're calling me illegally too so i think it pretty much evens out :)

Give them all the same ridiculous non-negotiable cash selling price.

Dude, i wish i knew! Lost my mom last year and the predatory fuckers contacting me about her house won't let up! Every day i get mail and everyone on my phone plan gets calls and texts.

Find their phone number and set up your own robo call operation for just them.

robocalls or humans?

Get an air horn and use it when they ask.

bonus points for talking quietly, so they turn the volume up a bit

C'mon man just let us buy it. Please?

Make appointments to let them see the property and don't go