Indian Call Centres Now Call You!

starlite_2

for around a month now i have been called every week day, at exactly 7.20pm by the same indian woman offering me health insurance. i have repeatedly told them to take my details off their database, but they havent. we now always know to ignore it and let it ring out...i never put my number on any forms and we are also registered with telephone preference...i cant see a way of stopping this!

SMB_2

imported_ami wrote:

for around a month now i have been called every week day, at exactly 7.20pm by the same indian woman offering me health insurance. i have repeatedly told them to take my details off their database, but they havent. we now always know to ignore it and let it ring out...i never put my number on any forms and we are also registered with telephone preference...i cant see a way of stopping this!

Why don't you pick up the call, then ask her "can she wait just a minute". You then put the phone to oneside (not on the reciever) and go and watch Emerdale.

Please note that you can only do this if you don't care a jot about the poor indian girl who is getting paid 2p an hour.

sunflower_2

SMB wrote:

Why don't you pick up the call, then ask her "can she wait just a minute". You then put the phone to oneside (not on the reciever) and go and watch Emerdale.

Please note that you can only do this if you don't care a jot about the poor indian girl who is getting paid 2p an hour.

i love this idea

think i may un-register with TPS so can get some calls

he he

rchrisp

or you keep going back to the caller to "clarify" who they were after.... when they say "mrs" get a male to come to the phone, etc....

rachael

Inspector_Clouseau

Okay so we're all fed up with these calls but hey why now have a bit of fun seeing that they are paying for the call.

I tired to sell a guy a glass hammer, a chocolate fireguard and a bucket of fog I even asked could he sent me a tin of striped paint?

If they ask to speak to the home owner say you'll be a minute (not) and leave the phone off the hook, hopefully they will got bored and hang up by the time you get back.

Get to know the caller ask them how they are, how's the rest of their family keeping, did they see the football match last night or do they think it is going to rain and should you cut the lawn.

I find the calls are very short and I don't hear from them again.

margaret_3

Hehe Inspector. This was so funny!

Paul_Varjak

Inspector, you remind me of my Scouting days. Left handed mallets, chocolate toilets seats, f*rt bottles and, if some young whippersnapper was being rather annoying, you told him to go and ask 'Skip' for a 'Long Stand'!

IvanOpinion

I wish I could remember where I read or heard it but the best one I heard was someone who phoned up trying to sell life insurance (it may have been American). The recipient then started on about how fortunate it was that the person phoned at that time because he was just about to commit suicide but was worrying about what would happen to his children. He started questioning the caller to see if he could get the life insurance to start immediately so that he could continue. The reaction of the sales person was hilarious.

If anyone can find a link to this I would love to read it again

Ivan