Next time they call you, read poetry to them. Keats or something:

Though you should build a bark of dead men's bones,
And rear a phantom gibbet for a mast,
Stitch shrouds together for a sail, with groans
To fill it out, blood-stained and aghast;
Although your rudder be a dragon's tail
Long sever'd, yet still hard with agony,
Your cordage large uprootings from the skull
Of bald Medusa, certes you would fail
To find the Melancholy—whether she
Dreameth in any isle of Lethe dull.

A couple of times around with that stuff and they will put you on the do-not-call list.

They are on commission either totally or mostly and starting to go hungry.

The Fed raised rates today again.

Going to get harder and harder for these guys to stay in the business.

The brokers, not the company.

Business is off at least 17% year over year and still falling monthly.

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I usually ignore unknown numbers but occasionally I get curious, I suppose.

I'm not even curious. Anybody not on my contact list is not answered, period.

Ayup. Unknown callers are silenced. Go direct to voicemail, do not pass go.

Nobody can harass you over the phone unless you let them .