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gyzmo

A useful article in Saturday's Guardian was also published (was about junk mail, but same principle applies, I believe).

Even were you sign with the TPS, you may still get calls from organisations that you are a "customer" of. This includes any company that you have contacted and not opted out from being contacted again.

In othe words, any effect will be limited to organisations you have not had dealings with before. For the rest, you need to contact each one individually and ask not to be contacted.

A good way of avoiding this hassle is to carefully check their privacy policy. their "carefully selected organisations" that they wish to refer you to means anyone who has a mailing list taht you are not on.

Otherwise, if you do answer the phone and actually get a person on the other end, try these:

1. pretend you are hard of hearing and repeatedly ask the person to speak up
2. ask the person to hold on for a second, put the phone down by the tv and see how long it takes before they hang up.
3. Go with what they are saying and make it last as long as you can (ask lots of questions), and then just before agreeing to anything say something like "oh, I've just remembered, I already have one. Thanks anyway!"

childish, I know, but fun if you're bored or have nothing better to do!

superscaper

gyzmo wrote:

Even were you sign with the TPS, you may still get calls from organisations that you are a "customer" of. This includes any company that you have contacted and not opted out from being contacted again.

I thought I read that according to TPS, the Ofcom regulations require it to be an opt-in system so you have to specifically tell organisations that you would be happy to recieve future calls, they can't make the assumption that you would. Just like spam, if you register with a company you have to specifically give permission to recieve mailings from them, even a tick box has to be unticked by default under EU anti spam law.