Cold Calls

[Barrel of Fun]

Ladies and Gents,

I keep getting phone calls from some company saying "We realise that your contract is almost up (No it isn't - Pay as you go!)....:blah: :blah:....would you be interested in signing up with us...."

I get about one or two a day and have done for the last two weeks. I have answered a few times and told them I am not interested etc. but the calls keep coming.

Each time, it is a different phone number so it is impossible to block them! Any ideas other than changing my phone number!?

 

[Wozza]

Ask them to 'hang on a minute....'

Put the phone down on your desk.

Carry on working/browsing.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Good plan - hit them in the pocket. I shall instigate when my next call arrives......usually 7.30pm.

 

[DC Rules]

mobile or home phone?

 

[readingstockport]

Is this your mobile or land line?

If it's the land line tell them you are registered with the Telephone Preference Services and if they call you once again you will be reporting them. Almost all companies back off immediately if you say this. get the name of the caller if you can in case they get arsey with you and if they do threatne to report them for being abusive.

 

[Gritt23]

Change the subject.

Ask them what they think of LDC, or how we are going to extricate ourselves from Iraq.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

On the mobile.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Ask them to 'hang on a minute....'

Put the phone down on your desk.

Carry on working/browsing.

I've done that when some random cold caller asked to speak to the homeowner.

I put the phone down on the table and went into town to buy a paper.

When I came back, twenty minutes later, I could still hear the sound of her office on the line, punctuated by her occasionally going "Hello?". She eventually gave up nearly half an hour in

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I've done that when some random cold caller asked to speak to the homeowner.

I put the phone down on the table and went into town to buy a paper.

When I came back, twenty minutes later, I could still hear the sound of her office on the line, punctuated by her occasionally going "Hello?". She eventually gave up nearly half an hour in

Yeah, I like that !

 

[DC Rules]

next time someone rings and says "they're NOT trying to sell you something", say oh what a shame, I was just in the mood to spend some money, and hang up!

 

[Herne Hill Seagull]

Is this your mobile or land line?

If it's the land line tell them you are registered with the Telephone Preference Services and if they call you once again you will be reporting them. Almost all companies back off immediately if you say this. get the name of the caller if you can in case they get arsey with you and if they do threatne to report them for being abusive.

Not the first time this has come up. The TPS (and the Mail Preference Service) is the way forward. My cold calls have dropped to about one every 8-10 weeks instead of six per day since I registered. In the event anybody still calls once you're registered, all you have to do is ask them from which company they're calling, and they'll hang up immediately, because they know if you're registered with TPS and that they shouldn't be calling you.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I found the TPS thing to be great initially, and the annoying calls I received dropped right off.

But recently (say a year or so on) they've started doing them again. It's all the more shit when you work shifts, and the bastards wake you up when you're trying to sleep.

Call Centre phone jockey:
"Good morning madam, my name's Duncan and I'm calling from Crappy McCrap, Ltd, Purveyors of Crap Windows and Conservatories, and how are you today?"

Me: "Well let's see, I finished work two hours ago, having spent most of the night standing outside in the rain and cold, waiting for a bunch of pissed nightclubbers to stop fighting and go home. Right up until the moment you called, I was finally catching up on some much needed sleep"

*Faintly embarrassed pause*

Duncan brazenly blunders on anyway:
"I'm sorry to hear that, well if I could just take five minutes of your time, I just need to ask you, if you could make one home improvement within the next six months, would it be: double glazing; stone cladding; a new drivewa..."

[Click].

 

[nail-Z]

Not the first time this has come up. The TPS (and the Mail Preference Service) is the way forward. My cold calls have dropped to about one every 8-10 weeks instead of six per day since I registered. In the event anybody still calls once you're registered, all you have to do is ask them from which company they're calling, and they'll hang up immediately, because they know if you're registered with TPS and that they shouldn't be calling you.

http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/



And it's FREE!!!

 

[chip]

Was one of the numbers 02920368975?

I got loads of missed calls from them as I don't often leave the 'phone on. When my wife answered it and she got the waffle about contracts she did an Edna. No calls since.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

We keep getting cold calls from foreign people and i am afraid i just can't resist doing the Majorie doors (Little Britain) sketch when she keeps asking the Indian lady "what did you say i can't understand you" "what did you say I can't understand you".

They soon hang up.

I know it's not PC but who cares i have a good time.

 

[Starry]

We don't get very many (thanks to the TPS thing) but when we do I tell them we are registered, that it's unlawful to call me, please remove me and then give the phone to my eldest daughter who will gossip to anyone about anything. She usually keeps them talking about Barbies, bikes and bubble baths for a fair while.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

i worked in a call centre, and if the system works like ours just say you have either renewed a different contract, or pretend u are foreign. they will take you off the list no doubt.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

The handy thing about cold calls is that because of the way the calls are automatically dialled, there's always a second's pause when you pick up, before they start to speak.

I presume also because the individual is waiting to see if it's you or an answerphone. My mum, on the other hand, knows straight away if it's me on the other end, and there's no pause.

Hence if there's more than about half a second between me picking up and someone starting to speak, I put the phone straight back down.

Hell, if it's someone important, they'll ring back.

 

[Shegull]

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