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0800 reverse?
babe_ruth_3
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Has anyone had a phone call from people calling themselves 0800 reverse?
I had a call this evening from automated voice saying that it was 0800 reverse. I hung up as I thought it was probably a scam, when I dialled 1471 the number that came up was 08456 853000. Have any of you had this call?
I had a call this evening from automated voice saying that it was 0800 reverse. I hung up as I thought it was probably a scam, when I dialled 1471 the number that came up was 08456 853000. Have any of you had this call?
It is unwise to pay too much but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, all you lose is a little money... that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot...it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better (John Ruskin - 19 ctry author, art critic & social reformer)
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Not had a call but they were advertising on mainstream TV this week. It supposed to be for kids if they have no credit on their phones can call 0800 reverse to get hold of their parents in an emergency. Im sure the charge was around £3.50 to the parents phone !!!!!!!!!!!!fair enough if its a real emergency but knowing my lot it would be to ask if they could stay out later !!!!!0
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Yes, you did right to hang up. It's horrendously expensive to receive a reversed charge call. See here:
http://www.serviceview.bt.com/list/current/docs/Inland_Operator.boo/2106.htm0 -
You've got me wondering now if it is our son trying to get in touch. He is at university but I know at the moment he does'nt have his mobile with him.It is unwise to pay too much but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, all you lose is a little money... that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot...it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better (John Ruskin - 19 ctry author, art critic & social reformer)0
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Then he can use a payphone and spend 20p to get you to ring him back, not waste £3.50 of your money to achieve the same thing.0
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few people know our x directory number so I'm really wondering now who it could be. I will be inerested to know next time we see son if it was him who tried to call.
With the normal revese charge call I'm sure you used to get a person from bt asking if you would accept the call and they would also tell you who was calling. This call was just an automated person and I didn't hang on to the phone long enough to hear the whole message as I automatically thought it was some kind of scam. Ah well i'm off to bed now, not sure if i'll get much sleep though.It is unwise to pay too much but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, all you lose is a little money... that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot...it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better (John Ruskin - 19 ctry author, art critic & social reformer)0 -
You are confusing the BT system with the 0800Reverse system.. The latter is completely separate and automated and only requires the 'sender' to dial a freephone 0800 number and enter details of the 'target' number.babe_ruth wrote:With the normal revese charge call I'm sure you used to get a person from bt asking if you would accept the call and they would also tell you who was calling. This call was just an automated person and I didn't hang on to the phone long enough to hear the whole message as I automatically thought it was some kind of scam.
Because of that, it is open to abuse by immature cretins.
It is possible to bar access to 0800Reverse callers (see HERE - post #2) but the only way not to get caught for extortionate charges from the BT version is to refuse to accept such calls.Time has moved on (much quicker than it used to - or so it seems at my age) and my previous advice on residential telephony has been or is now gradually being overtaken by changes in the retail market. Hence, I have now deleted links to my previous 'pearls of wisdom'. I sincerely hope they helped save some of you money.0 -
our son is 18 and was on PAYG , cos he could never afford top ups , so if he wanted to talk to us , we have told him to use 0800 reverse and there is time for a short message , eg, call me back, or 'yes' or 'no' if he stopping out at a mates house , we then know to call him back ( we pay 1.50 extra a month on TalkTalk phone bill to get 25% off mobile calls) this is then a lot cheaper than 2.50 -.3.50 a time on reverse charges__________________0
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Please don't do that. The MSE UK Callchecker details ways of making those BT landline to UK mobile calls much cheaper (2p, 3p or 5p per minute depending on the day/time of day).Josie64 wrote:..... (we pay 1.50 extra on talktalk phone bill to get 25% off mobile calls)Time has moved on (much quicker than it used to - or so it seems at my age) and my previous advice on residential telephony has been or is now gradually being overtaken by changes in the retail market. Hence, I have now deleted links to my previous 'pearls of wisdom'. I sincerely hope they helped save some of you money.0 -
I had read this thread the other day when last night the same thing happened: the phone rang at home at about 10.30pm I answered and it was the automated voice saying there was a 0800 reverse call from 'Peter' and to say yes to accept; I hung up.
A few seconds later the same thing happened, again my OH hung up. We felt the only Peter we knew was BIL who was so unlikely to have been contacting us in this way and may have added surname. Both DD and DS out and as DD 15 I did phone her but it was not her, and DS out with friends so figured if he was out of credit he could have used a mates phone.
I just wonder how others could make money this way0 -
saw son yesterday and asked if he had tried to call us using 0800 reverse to which he said no. So, we still have no idea why we got the call. I suppose it is possible that someone could have dialled the wrong numberIt is unwise to pay too much but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, all you lose is a little money... that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot...it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better (John Ruskin - 19 ctry author, art critic & social reformer)0
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