Great 'Best Cold Caller Rebukes' Hunt

harryhound

If you own shares in your own name, expect a call from the boiler room scammers.

All part of the world's greatest crime network: The fraudsters.
Top of the pile operators in a network that starts with cold calling muppets selling stuff that people don't really want to buy.

I cannot think of anything, where best value for money comes from a proposition presented by a cold caller - it is just intrusive verbal spam.

http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pages/Library/Communication/PR/2006/053.shtml

".........if in doubt don't be polite, just hang up!"

It's official government policy:T

PhiltheBear

taxi97w wrote: »

If someone came up to you and asked a non-solicitored question like 'can you tell me where the train station is? ', would you be a tw*t in that situation too?.........
Baffled why people cant just speak on the phone with these people, instead of deploying your childish bahaviour.

If I'm doing something else and someone rudely interrupted me then I would tell them to wait. That's basic manners. On the phone I don't have that choice and they don't know what I'm doing, what phone calls I might be waiting for, etc.

If I want to buy something then I'll search out the product - I don't need anyone to phone me with unsolicited offers about anything. As far as I'm concerned these companies (not the callers) have decided that for their commercial self-interest it's OK to interrupt my life with their sales message and take my time. As far as I'm concerned it isn't. It's my right to say "No, I don't want to listen to you. Go away."

If that were all there was I'd have no problem. But it's not. Irrespective of the number of times you say no companies keep calling back. That's really what this thread is about.

I've registered with the TPS and that has stopped the majority of such calls. But it doesn't stop foreign ones. It doesn't stop, for example, the AA who phone you after you've used their breakdown service to ask if everything was OK and, by the way, can we sell you something?

These calls take my time when I can be doing something else. I've already made it clear I don't want them. So, if someone decides that they can override my wishes then I can decide to be as rude and nasty to them as I want. If they make my life uncomfortable then I'll do exactly the same to them. It's really that simple.

BargainGalore

They often try and befriend you too

"Good morning Mr Smith, How are you today?"

Cut to the chase, they on here for one thing to get your money

harryhound

In some ways it is unfortunate that charities have to resort to much the same tactics.

For example we have a local hospice, and I got a call suggesting I might like to receive information - I had a pretty good idea that I would receive a direct debit mandate - surprise surprise I did.

It is a sort of moral blackmail, but that sort of 'phone call, especially when I know the organisation is reasonably efficient and the donation will not be stolen by a local war lord, is a lot less annoying.

theloft

PhiltheBear wrote: »

If that were all there was I'd have no problem. But it's not. Irrespective of the number of times you say no companies keep calling back. That's really what this thread is about.
These calls take my time when I can be doing something else. I've already made it clear I don't want them. So, if someone decides that they can override my wishes then I can decide to be as rude and nasty to them as I want. If they make my life uncomfortable then I'll do exactly the same to them. It's really that simple.

Hear! Hear!

RuthnJasper

I posted about this before, but am adding again, as it's the best "Cold Caller Rebuke" in the entire world. Hope it makes a few MSE bods smile...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fahdbWQNQ_I :rotfl:

Dr.Shoe_2

The thing is is that cold calling works. Many firms have entire departments set up for this and if it didn't work then they would not have gone to the expense of hiring staff and providing office space.

Canvassers are different, they are often paid on commission/results only and are often franchisees trying to make a living. They are not clairvoyant they don't know that you've just sat down for your dinner or you have a pot on the stove or you have just started bathing the baby etc. If they knew when you were going to be available to speak to them then they would much rather come back then instead. The point is, they are not deliberately interrupting you all they're trying to do is make a living and despite the suit they are rarely making particularly large amounts of money either. Does it cost you anything at all just to smile and say, "sorry mate, not interested!"?

Heinz

No, they're saying, "Speak to me, speak to me NOW."

mikki-b

So I have to ask, especially to those who have responded saying why don't we just say ' we are not interested please don't ring again'. What do you do when you've been doing that for 8 years (from zenith windows)and they still don't get the message. I'm not rude to the initial caller but I do ask to speak to the manager every time these days and state under no uncertain terms that I will never do business again with them even if they were the last window company on earth.

So answers please.........


Starting to have the same problem with british gas since we left them a couple of years ago. Last time they called I said we would not consider them again until they had not cold called us for at least two years since we previous asked them twice not to call. Not sure if that's worked yet.

Heinz

Tell them you consider their repeated calls harassment and threaten them with a charge of harassment if they do not desist.

http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/h_to_k/harrasment/#Offence_of_Harassment