fed up with cold calls?

[Bronek]

.... and it seems like TPS can do nothing? Good news, small claims court can :) Just found this today [url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9637438/Cold-caller-firm-pays-out-for-wasting-businessmans-time.html]Cold caller firm pays out for wasting businessman's time - Telegraph[/url] . Quite amazing, although I do wonder when these companies will start to refuse to present themselves ...

[mattie-lodge]

Yeah I just read this on Sky news too. Game on for anyone who dares to cold call now :)

[Liam B.]

What a legend!!

Although i do like to have fun with them such as, when they ask you to do their survey to do my survey...

[panosg]

I had them for 20 minutes ones waiting on the phone so I can get the boss....that's me!
I left the phone next to the radio, had the phone on speaker, te next thing I heard from the guy on the phone was, " you are not coming are you" lol.

[chucky21022010]

Re: fed up with cold calls?

What I did is jad my caller id service activated in that way I get to choose to answer the phone or not when they are calling.:)

[xygax]

I got one really worried..... Cold call... BT selling internet... i politly asked for the guys name .... his call center and contact details.... then told him politly that i was a member of the telephone preference service repeated his name and details and finally announced that i would be writing to OFCOM on his belalf because he should have taken the time to find out that i was a member of the TPS prior to calling me and that he should really tell his line manager he had just broken the law and would be subject to civil procedings in due course.............

20 mins later had the manager on the fone took his name as well and wrote to OFCOM neither of them contacted me again...

STeve

[Bronek]

Re: fed up with cold calls?

[QUOTE=chucky21022010;922927]What I did is jad my caller id service activated in that way I get to choose to answer the phone or not when they are calling.:)[/QUOTE]

This does not work when call centre is in India ... as many of them are. You just get "private international" and if you happen to have relatives or friends abroad, normally you will answer.

[jwatts007]

I want a phone that I can turn off the answer machine...I hate mobile phones....

[panosg]

[QUOTE=jwatts007;922939]I want a phone that I can turn off the answer machine...I hate mobile phones....[/QUOTE]

Surely there is an option to turn off the answer machine!

[SaneAdam]

I enjoy knowing that after they get off the phone from me, the call will probably be used in their training scheme on how to deal with insane people on the phone. Moth&r fu&^*rs dont know what hits em when they talk to me :) i love it... i do the same to those low life scum door knockers. Im sorry but i despise that scum and enjoy scaring them and being ridiculously aggressive :) I just really get off on the look of total bewilderment as i loom over them telling them to get the f&^k off my drive. Im territorial in the extreme and i hate people intruding like that on the phone or at the door. Most peoples doors they knock on will have people in them that are intimidated and dont want to be rude to em.... then they knock on mine :) and they leave as i laugh hysterically at them watching them be really irritated that they could not bully me. They deserve it though. F(*&ing sub human scum. I wouldnt mind if they actually turned and walked away when you say im not interested. But none of them do and i have had them put their foot in the door as i have tried to close it... lets just say i still doubt that man will be able to walk properly .... :) small victory's and that

[Gixxer]

[QUOTE=SaneAdam;922960]I enjoy knowing that after they get off the phone from me, the call will probably be used in their training scheme on how to deal with insane people on the phone. Moth&r fu&^*rs dont know what hits em when they talk to me :) i love it... i do the same to those low life scum door knockers. Im sorry but i despise that scum and enjoy scaring them and being ridiculously aggressive :) I just really get off on the look of total bewilderment as i loom over them telling them whats gonna happen if they dont get the f&^k off my drive. Im territorial in the extreme and i hate people intruding like that on the phone or at the door. Most peoples doors they knock on will have people in them that are intimidated and dont want to be rude to em.... then they knock on mine :) and they leave in tears as i laugh hysterically at them. They deserve it though. F(*&ing sub human scum. I wouldnt mind if they actually turned and walked away when you say im not interested. But none of them do and i have had them put their foot in the door as i have tried to close it... lets just say i still doubt that man will be able to walk properly .... :) small victory's and that[/QUOTE]

I totally agree with you but I think you should go one step further and murder them and their entire family... that would show them!

I've decided to do exactly that... next cold caller gets decapitated... with a rich tea biscuit!

[debrooker]

[QUOTE=Gixxer;922962] whit a rich tea biscuit![/QUOTE]

sounds like a total waste of a perfectly good biscuit, so not only have they taken 5 minutes of your life, but left you poorer for it :)

i don't answer the doors these days, can't be arsed

[chucky21022010]

Re: fed up with cold calls?

[QUOTE=Bronek;922937]This does not work when call centre is in India ... as many of them are. You just get "private international" and if you happen to have relatives or friends abroad, normally you will answer.[/QUOTE]

I dont answer international calls nor private number witheld. My family/relatives call me on my mobile or txt me if it is urgent internationally as they know I dont answer our landline. They could listen to garfields voice as our answering machine all day long.:)

[waveydavey]

[QUOTE=SaneAdam;922960]I enjoy knowing that after they get off the phone from me, the call will probably be used in their training scheme on how to deal with insane people on the phone. Moth&r fu&^*rs dont know what hits em when they talk to me :) i love it... i do the same to those low life scum door knockers. Im sorry but i despise that scum and enjoy scaring them and being ridiculously aggressive :) I just really get off on the look of total bewilderment as i loom over them telling them whats gonna happen if they dont get the f&^k off my drive. Im territorial in the extreme and i hate people intruding like that on the phone or at the door. Most peoples doors they knock on will have people in them that are intimidated and dont want to be rude to em.... then they knock on mine :) and they leave in tears as i laugh hysterically at them. They deserve it though. F(*&ing sub human scum. I wouldnt mind if they actually turned and walked away when you say im not interested. But none of them do and i have had them put their foot in the door as i have tried to close it... lets just say i still doubt that man will be able to walk properly .... :) small victory's and that[/QUOTE]

Really, I take it you're taking the p#ss :D Why not just say no thank you firmly and wish them a good day, I wouldn't think of having a go at anyone standing in the cold trying to earn a couple of quid, unless they themselves got stroppy. Same as I wouldn't get out of my pram answering the phone unless after I had told them I wasn't interested they rang again.

I'm ex directory (changed my number) and listed with the TPS and MPS and don't get any nusiance calls really.

[mattscupoftea]

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