Most definitely not. If they didn’t leave a message, it wasn’t important or it was a misdial. There’s no problem here for me to resolve.
Once we were part of a telephone chain for my son’s class, each household calling the next on the list to pass along some information about a change in that day’s plan. I dutifully called the next family and didn’t reach them, so I called the next family down so that the information would continue to spread. A week later, we got a call from the mother of the first family, asking who we were and why we had called. Once we figured out what it all went back to, we asked her why she had bothered to call when no message had been left (they didn’t have voicemail on or I would have left something about why I was calling). She said that it might have been important. Really? A week later? :rolleyes:
Missed calls, no. I don’t answer the phone if I don’t recognize the number. I figure if I need to do something they’ll leave a message to that effect. And I do return calls promptly if asked.
If I see missed calls from family or friends I’ll call back even if they didn’t leave a message. Some of them seem to be allergic to voicemail and won’t leave messages for stuff that I actually do need to know or could help them with. It’s annoying.
Same. If it’s important, you can spend 15 seconds telling me what you want.
Also, over the last 6 months or so, apparently every telemarketer in America has figured out that no one’s really enforcing the Do Not Call list. I’ll look up the number on Google and see that they’re some sort of scam outfit or credit consolidation company or something. I get these calls (I never answer them) a few times a month now.
I didn’t vote because normally I don’t call them back, but once I did for a number that kept calling repeatedly, and amazingly, I got a person on the other end and I asked them to stop calling and they stopped! So for once it turned out well.
We recently had a strange message on our answering machine congratulating my wife and “Nick”, which isn’t my name, on the birth of a baby. When I heard the message the name and voice matched that of an unliked aunt of my wife, but until I looked at the caller ID log and saw her name I assumed it was just a random misdial. My wife confirmed that her aunt does have another niece of the same name by her husband’s sibling. The odd thing is that this aunt has NEVER called us before (including when we really did have a baby) so why she even has our number in her phone to begin with is a mystery.
No. If it’s a person who is actually calling for me, they’ll leave a message. 100% of the time when I Google the number, it’s a telemarketer/scam of some sort.
Unless I’m job hunting, and I haven’t been for several years, there is no reason for me to answer unknown numbers.
I’ve attended a few ‘free’ trading conferences over the past couple of years and one of the drawbacks is they sell your information to everyone. I can’t give them a phony number, since the presenter usually calls to confirm attendance. I don’t have any other number besides my work number so for a couple months I get endless phone calls from Billy Bob’s magic daytrading system.
I usually have some selling or buying going on on Ebay, and so I call back because I figure a deal can be made that way. And also because the whole cellphone thing is still relatively new to me, I did everything by email because I didn’t have the discipline to keep my cell phone charged.
Not only do I not call unrecognized numbers back that have called me and not left a message, if they do it several times (definition of “several” depends on my mood) I use Call Screen to block them.
I actually replied to a text message that had obviously been sent to the wrong cell phone number yesterday; first time I have ever done that. It was very approximately "I forgot to give you my address, it is " followed by an address. I figured I’d be nice for once in my life and warned the sender just in case it was important to get that address to someone.
Yeah, if I leave a message for the wrong person, I appreciate it when people call me back to tell me. Likewise, if someone leaves a message that is obviously not for me, I generally call back and tell them. It’s the people that call back and say “I got a call from this number” that just seem kinda paranoid to me. OTOH, the reasons given (job searches, ebay, etc) make sense.
Regarding not calling back wrong messages - I’m curmudgeonly that way. I figure they’ll figure it out eventually (and meanwhile, they have extra drama! “Why didn’t you call me back?” “I didn’t get any message!”) I wasn’t put on this earth to help people learn how to dial a phone. Or maybe I was.
I can’t imagine why anyone would call back unless you’re so desperate to talk to anyone that you will call someone who really didn’t want to talk to you all that badly and you don’t even know who it is.
I couldn’t quite decide how to vote. Usually when I get a phone call from an unfamiliar number, it is someone I’ve called for business (not telemarketing!) However, instead of answering when I called, they call me back immediately to see who I am, often before I have finished leaving them a message. Sometimes they even block their number before calling me back seconds later. I just do not get this! I already have your number, I just called you! Outside of work hours, I don’t usually answer missed calls that don’t leave a message, but unlike a lot of other people, I DO answer unfamiliar numbers. I can always hang up.
I do if it’s from an area code I recognize and where I have family (none of my family live in the same area code from me). Otherwise, though, I just shrug my shoulders and forget about it.
If I actually hear it ringing, I answer. This is largely due to long years of habit from not having caller ID, where you didn’t really have a choice, but even an unfamiliar number might well be legitimate.
No, I do not call unknown numbers back. I usually though try to look them up using reverse ph search, see who it was or at least determine general area where the call originated.
