Unwanted telephone calls driving me mad - not sales so TPS does not help...

Bigcammy

I think the Do Not Call website is American, not for the UK, sorry.

joylikes2shop

Bigcammy wrote: »

I think the Do Not Call website is American, not for the UK, sorry.

Thanks bigcammy....I'll amend my original post about it ....sorry everyone

Snoozle

dazo123 wrote: »

Hi all!

I used work for Ipsos Mori and have a few things to say:

Guys I dont think any of the ideas above are great - A whistle by the phone??? AND going beserk? Seriously people are only doing their jobs!!! Try and appreciate how soul destroying it can be without listening to people shouting!


You do realise that you can be asked to be put on a Do Not Re-contact database?? Legally they have to put you on it so you wont be contacted again if you say 'Can you put me on your do not recontact database'. Asking to be taken off a list doesnt work as they dont use a database or directory!

And anyway.....A lot of Mori surveys are government commissioned so maybe listen to what they are saying and you might find it interesting?? They're never that long!

Just a thought!

Well, I don't go berserk, or keep a whistle by the phone, and I appreciate people are only trying to do their job.

But as for just participating because it won't last that long....are you sure you don't still work for them :rotfl:because thats the line they always use when I say no thanks.

Its not about how long it takes, its about the fact that when its 6pm and I am trying to persuade a reluctant toddler to eat up, whilst unloading the dishwasher and trying to iron my husbands shirts and keeping an eye on a cake in the oven (just to use one cliched example!!) I do not want to have to rush to answer the phone to discover that its some timewaster who has been asked repeatedly not to call. End of story.

I have elderly parents, so I am reluctant to just leave the phone to ring, in case its something urgent or important. My telephone is in my house for my convenience, not the convenience of marketing companies.

Ok, end of rant. I will look into other people's suggestions of caller ID, that was something that I hadn't thought of before.

nightowl1

I had a call from someone (asian sounding guy) claiming to be from Lifestyle research about an hour ago. He was so loud on the phone I had to ask him to stop shouting as I could not make out what he was saying. I had asked him if he could tell me exactly who he was doing the research for and give him his due, he answred in a far quieter voice. Unfortunately for me, when he didn't really give me a satisfactory answer, I said that I did not want to take part. His reply? Don't waste my time then! And he hung up on me. Nice!!

[Deleted User]

If the number is an 0800 number it wont charge me for answering will it?

I'm currently being bugged by 3 Mobile (according to the 'Who Calls Me?' website) and really can't be bothered to answer. Most of the time they ring me at work as well. I always ignore it but that leaves me with the missed call notifcation on my screen and because my mobile is stupid you can't get rid of it for ages.

I'm just thinking if its not gonna charge me to answer then I might just answer the call and set it to one side to leave them hanging with nobody there. Ha ha revenge!

deedee71

I get plagued with calls asking for the person who had the landline number before me (not at my address though).

I'm so tired of explaining they don't live here, no I don't know where the moved to as the didn't ever live here, etc etc

My very first call when I moved in was for "Mr McEwan" and 2 years on I still get calls for him!

The main problem is I get the feeling they are all chasing him for money so I don't know how to get my number off their databases as for "data protection" they are not allowed to tell me who is calling for him!

katie_cat_2

Same story for my landline! I live at home with my dad who was waiting on a hip replacement, he got really frustrated at having to limp to the phone only to discover it was a nuisance caller. Sometimes the phone was ringing just after 8am and wakening him, it cracked me up something shocking. What we now do as a general rule in the house is hang up if no one speaks within the first 2 seconds. It is a pain to get up and answer the phone but I'd rather hang up straight away than try and persuade them to stop calling. We've now registered with TPS and while it has halted a lot of calls we do still get the odd one or two, specially from pre-recorded messages. Pain in the behind but best option is to just hang up if no one speaks straight away.

Helens

Buy a device called TrueCall: £99.99, but worth every penny when you are plagued by these wretched calls

It works 100%

:j

If you buy it direct from TrueCall, their wonderful support team will configure it to your needs before dispatch.
Excellent service
Cheaper on Amazon, but you'd need to set it up yourself

donnac2558

For a very long I was getting this particular number ringing my mobile. I would answer they never spoke, I could hear people talking in the background and they sounded like Londoners. I texted the number and said look you have the wrong number please stop calling me. For months all quiet then it would start again. I actually could recognise this number another mobile. If a wrong number why did they keep my number and ring?

Final straw about three weeks ago at 2.30am my mobile rang, I leapt out of bed thinking someone was ill. No it was the number. I rang and left a voice message telling them I was going to hunt them down and disembowel them.

Then got my mobile number changed.:p

So I hope somewhere in England there someone living in terror that some pyschopathic Irish woman was coming to kill them.:T

Golden_Anemone

dazo123 wrote: »

You do realise that you can be asked to be put on a Do Not Re-contact database?? Legally they have to put you on it so you wont be contacted again if you say 'Can you put me on your do not recontact database'. Asking to be taken off a list doesnt work as they dont use a database or directory!

But the company you are asking not to call you again are clearly relying on the fact that Joe and Josephine Public don't know these words. Surely they should just put anyone who asks to be removed from their database onto the "do not contact database" or would that be too much like common sense? It would be more honest too.

I still get unsolicited sales mail for my mother who died nearly 8 years ago and in the first 2 or 3 years I religiously wrote to every company who sent letters to her asking that they stop as she was no longer alive and many just ignored me.