me - "hello"
*slight pause*
recorded voice of John McCockface - "hello, why not take advantage of a government backed scheme, and consolidate............blah blah f**king blah"
is there a way of stopping getting these poxy calls, or reducing the amount of them.
i've obviously given my details to an organisation that has passed on the phone number to these companies. but if i change my number, how do i know who to pass the new number onto.
it's not that i'm worried about breaking my phone, more worried about replacing the window it is gonna go through.
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just looked. they do, and also charge you £48 a year for the privelidge , the robbing b'stards. i don't spend that on outgoing calls from my landline.
i actually prefer cold callers. at least you can tell them to do one and cross my number of their list.
We get 3-4 a day. Drives me absolutely mad as one is guaranteed to be during dinner. We've always signed up for TPS, but these automated ones seem to avade it.
Is there no other way around than paying £48 ?
We get 3-4 a day. Drives me absolutely mad as one is guaranteed to be during dinner. We've always signed up for TPS, but these automated ones seem to avade it.
Is there no other way around than paying £48 ?[/quote]
in theory if you receive an unsolicited call and you are on TPS you can report the caller and they willbe fined, but I have never been able to get the call details properley or go through the hassle.
I had one great call the other week.
Told the guy that I was not interested in talking to him.
says to me "are you indian" - Indian call centre
Answer " i am 2nd generation indian"
"Ah, then that must be why you are a c..t" and puts phone down .. nice! It was voda phone and I should have reported him but I could not be doing with the hassle
http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/
Its free, takes around a month to setup, but, I've been phone bug free for a couple of years.
When they ring and ask to speak to the owner/manager/director/person who deals with.... etc, I tell them they dont accept unsolicited calls, they start arguing about I am restricting their business and being rude, blah blah blah.
I am polite once, the next time its, look I told you, I wont be putting the call through, I have been polite to you so far but you obviously dont seem to get the message, so if you want rude, here you you go....F O, phone goes down.
Dont mind people trying to earn a living, but when they start insisting to be put through on an uninvited and unwanted phone call, they get short shrift from me if they ignore what I am telling them.
The stupidest one I received was when I was living in a converted medieval church. I got a call from a uPVC double glazing company. "Would you like a quote for double glazing?" "Can you double glaze an eighteenth century, stained glass window?" "Oh... why? Do you have one of those?"
I've been sworn at afew times.......................
They say "You should have told me it wasn't your flat".
I say, "You never asked".
Answering a phone is not one of lifes challenges and is over in 10 seconds.
It is when you are doing something more important and interrupt it to speak to these licenced home intruders.
I'm with Bill Hicks. Anyone in advertising/marketing should do the world a favour and shoot themselves.
I can understand people being busy or crippled with pain not wanting to be continually interupted but my point, although not well made, is the guy on on the other end of the phone is only trying to earn a crust. Being rude or making fun of him is missing the real target, the company employing the poor sap.
ditto! and in 10 years i have never used telesales as its a pile of pants!
All depends, be polite with the first answer when you say your not interested, if they ignore you and carry on with their patter (which 90% do IMO), then be as abusive as you like , at the end of they day it's your phone line, you never asked them to call, and you gave them the opportunity to go away quietly.