Ways to stop overseas sales calls discussion

savemoney

But your doing a great service. Keeping two jokers/scammers busy means someone else wont be scammed

Froggitt wrote: »

Had the Indian cold call scammers again today about my computer reporting errors. Its more serious than I thought.....my computer will shut itself down in the next 24 hours.


I hope they are on commission for the number of people they scam per day......I had these two jokers on the phone for half an hour while Im watching telly.


Hopefully they flag me as a timewaster and don't call again.

savemoney

My phone never rings for cold callers now I invested in truecall. I still get them but it rejects the calls. So much nicer to get one up on them. Its just a shame people have to do this. At very least the cold callers should pay for it for anyone that complains.

vikingaero

Ellisdee wrote: »

I am a cold-caller myself. Want the best way to stop the calls? Stop being rude to the people calling you. If someone asks me (and doesn't even have to be in a nice way), to remove their number off our system, I will do it. However, if you're downright rude, swear, arrogant or shout and slam the phone down, you can bet your !!! you'll remain on the system.

The vast majority of cold calling companies have a public face where they will claim to comply with removal of numbers off the system. The private face knows that the database can be mined and sold on.

Would you expect a traffic warden to stop writing you a ticket if you spoke to him like that? No. Don't do it, it won't get you anywhere. After all, the only reason you're getting cold-called is because you were stupid enough to allow your information to be sold on. In-fact you were too lazy to read whatever you were leaving your details on and didn't tick that little box which says they aren't allowed to sell your info. It's your own fault.

Most people get confused with opting in or opting out with tick boxes. Companies know this and prey on it. If a company is going to abuse your trust in this way then it deserves all the venom it receives.

At the end of the day our company generates £30m a year. 70% is from cold calling, just because you aren't interested, it doesn't mean other people aren't.

Whoopi do. I work for a multi billion £ organisation but does it make me any better than you? No.

Lets get down to facts:

You justify cold calling because it's your job.

How do you know that the person you are calling isn't doing something more important? By calling you are interrupting the parent caring for their child, the person at work or who may be working from home. It could be a night shift worker who needs their sleep. It could be a doctor who will be operating on a member of your family that night. Do you care? No. Because it's your job and money in your pocket. And YOU consider yourself more important than others.

BigMummaF

I don't like cold calls.
I really don't like nuisance calls, BUT...


A couple of posters have admitted to working in call centres & have had a lot of abuse thrown at them....Why?
If those same 'telesales' people come on here & say 'Know what; you're right! I gave up my job & now I'm on the dole' a whole new "debate" would begin about work-shy can't afford to have morals.

Get real, people :mad:

There may come a time when you are faced with taking a job phoning people about which hand they use to scratch their head, or lose 3mths benefit if you refuse. Be interesting to see what your opinion will be then

Froggitt

Telesales and Traffic Warden jobs both involve verbal abuse. You don't want VA, don't take that kind of job. Someone else with thicker skin will take it no problem.

jhe

BigMummaF wrote: »

I don't like cold calls.
I really don't like nuisance calls, BUT...


A couple of posters have admitted to working in call centres & have had a lot of abuse thrown at them....Why?
If those same 'telesales' people come on here & say 'Know what; you're right! I gave up my job & now I'm on the dole' a whole new "debate" would begin about work-shy can't afford to have morals.

Get real, people :mad:

There may come a time when you are faced with taking a job phoning people about which hand they use to scratch their head, or lose 3mths benefit if you refuse. Be interesting to see what your opinion will be then

i am one of those that responded to this thread,i dont think i was abusive but i also have no tolerance anymore to these calls.
firstly i am real,i also worked all my life and when i am in the comfort of my own home i resent these nuisance callers invading my home, my time, on a phone line that i pay for, they are unwanted calls and disregard the TPS.
why should i have had to spend my hard earned money on a call blocker just so i can have peace and quiet in my home.
i had these calls all hours of the day and night.
the reason they have had not had favourable replies is the fact they have posted on a thread that asks 'ways to stop overseas calls discussion'
they are a nuisance and should be banned

[Deleted User]

I've never had an overseas sales call, in the 4+ years I've lived here.

It might have something to do with the fact, I have no landline.

rdann

I am afraid there will be little compassion for people engaged in this type of business on this forum.

Froggitt

Had another call yesterday from something money something. UK like the above. Missus picked it up. She spoke with them, passed it onto me. I just rested the phone on the arm of the chair, and carried on doing whatever I was doing. Eventually they hung up. Is that a better treatment of those poor abused cold callers?

flicks

We are always getting calls for an Edward Simpson here. I assume he may have had the number before it was allocated to us.


When they ask for him I normally say that he's not in but this is Bart.


They almost always hang up at that point.


Had one a few weeks ago which astounded me though. First I said Edward wasn't in but I was Bart. She said it was Edward she needed to speak to so I asked if she wanted to talk to my sister Lisa or my dad Homer. Again she said that it had to be Edward.


Clearly she'd never watched the programme. About the third time they called I said I was Edward and it turned out to be some PPI company. Amazingly they still keep trying.


I appreciate that the calls are often inconvenient but until they are made illegal the best thing to do is brighten the experience by winding them up.