Tip and Cheats on This Morning

TraceyB_2

Just seen a piece on This Morning showing you how to avoid calls to companies insistant on you pressing lots of buttons and not being allowed to speak to a human being!

Apologies if this is either in the wrong place or has been posted before.

Try https://www.gethuman.com/uk

There was also another website https://www.donotcall.gov which you can register yourself to stop getting unwanted sales calls - works on some but not all companies.

Hope it helps!

francine_2

nice. thanks

but dont forget not call those 0845/0870 numbers advertised on that site but look for 'em on:
http://www.saynoto0870.com/

mike_paterson

donotcall does not work for me - it says my area code and number are wrong !

mike_paterson

Looks like it is a US site which would explain it !

homealone_2

mike_paterson wrote:

donotcall does not work for me - it says my area code and number are wrong !

i had the same message but if you read it carefully ( i didnt) it tells you the format it will accept it in. i did it again and it accepted it. firstly on the are bit mine is 0208 so i entered 208 second part for number just enter the seven digits of your number 1234567
you get a messgae back saying accepted!!

hth

phoneman44

https://www.donotcall.gov is a US site. For the UK equivalent goto https://www.tpsonline.org.uk.

Heinz

homealone wrote:

i had the same message but if you read it carefully ( i didnt) it tells you the format it will accept it in. i did it again and it accepted it. firstly on the are bit mine is 0208 so i entered 208 second part for number just enter the seven digits of your number 1234567
you get a messgae back saying accepted!!

So you've just registered someone with the American area code 208!

phoneman44 wrote:

www.donotcall.gov is a US site. For the UK equivalent goto www.tpsonline.org.uk.

The researcher's in for the chop then - recommending an (irrelevant) American site for UK consumers!

redux

So are people giving instructions on US phone numbers they have no relationship with? I'd be surprised if it works, as the Americans surely have a better requirement for information protection than this. With any luck they won't send the confirmation email to a UK ISP.

I think I've seen that the original idea for navigating the menu systems was from an American as well. Perhaps people have been a bit careless in adopting his ideas without a bit more research.

208 is Idaho

Heinz

redux wrote:

With any luck they won't send the confirmation email to a UK ISP.

Unfortunately, they probably will - if my experiences of receiving numerous mortgage offers from American companies when I had .net.uk and a .co.uk e-mail addresses are anything to go by.