Cold calling ideas needed

Person_one

Tropez wrote: »

I have no sympathy for them. I do not believe that a worker is absolved of the responsibilities to behave ethically and legally because they are a wage slave to an employer who chooses not to do so.

Its easier to take that position when you aren't facing the possibility of having your JSA sanctioned for months if you get the sack for not meeting targets, or leave with nothing else to go to.

Person_one

Mrs_Imp wrote: »

If I go in to a shop it is my choice and I expect staff to try and sell me things. I don't expect to be called every 2 weeks for 9 months by people who don't undertand that someone doesn't live here, and never has lived here.

Every two weeks, that's all?

Yes, its annoying, I do understand that, but I thought it would be two or three times a night from how annoyed you are!

Wol2

These were a slightly different type of cold callers- but this could maybe provide a "few" ideas....:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

.....and it still remains one of the MSE classic threads of all time

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/741653

WARNING:
Do NOT read whilst drinking a beverage in the proximity of your computer keyboard :cool:

xxx

surfboard2

Oh, how i wish it would be so simple to say "no thank you" and not have someone repeatedly call you.

I'm sick of them too and find myself not answering the phone most of the time.

Tropez

Person_one wrote: »

Its easier to take that position when you aren't facing the possibility of having your JSA sanctioned for months if you get the sack for not meeting targets, or leave with nothing else to go to.

It is easy for me to take this position because I believe we should all be held to the same standards.

If I breached the various regulations and acts of law I have to adhere to in my position at the behest of my employer I would face legal consequences for doing so.

I fail to see why a cold caller should not be held to the same standard.

Person_one

Tropez wrote: »

It is easy for me to take this position because I believe we should all be held to the same standards.

If I breached the various regulations and acts of law I have to adhere to in my position at the behest of my employer I would face legal consequences for doing so.

I fail to see why a cold caller should not be held to the same standard.

I don't think the OP works for the police or the judiciary. If she or you feel that crimes are being committed, the answer is not a prank in response!

skivenov

Personal injury ones are easy.

"No, it's his brother. You what? Do you think that's ***ing funny or something, we're burying him today"

tea_lover wrote: »

Try to sell them something.

A mate of mine used to run a call centre, he actually once managed to sell something to someone who cold-called him :rotfl:

lostinrates

valk_scot wrote: »

I just say no thanks and put the phone down. It's not worth getting angry about. If I don't want to answer the phone because I'm busy I let it go to the answerphone.

Its good not to get angry. . Letting things go to answer phone isn't ideal in a number if situations. E.g. If you home number is also a number you use for self employed purposes or for an emergency contact for someone.

Tropez

Person_one wrote: »

I don't think the OP works for the police or the judiciary. If she or you feel that crimes are being committed, the answer is not a prank in response!

It is when Ofcom/ICO/TPS are so impotent that the issue persists.

A certain wonderful company have ignored six requests to remove my details from their database and never call again which is a breach of communications legislation. I was even nice enough to send them a letter to their offices making the same request, by recorded delivery so I know it arrived.

They were reported to regulators two years ago by myself, and again six months ago, as well as by copious others given the vitriol about them on the Internet and yet they persist.

They are in breach of the law but those responsible for dealing with these imbeciles have thus far failed in their duty to do something about it. Therefore, until such a time that something is done about these numpties, I might as well have some fun with it and turn the perpetual annoyance and intrusion into a source of amusement.

If they would at least stick to one number it would be less of a problem but sadly they can't even do that.

Now, I don't treat all cold callers in such a way. Those who are first time callers I do the whole polite "Sorry, not interested, please can you remove my details from your database. Thank you." thing but there are those companies that don't seem to learn and if as I suspect the Ofcom and ICO webforms are routed to a chimpanzee enclosure in Madagascar and that is why they are as useful as hedge trimmers in the Sahara, I might choose to return the favour, more so when they operate in a manner where I can't simply add them to the contact group "Smegheads" on my phone which doesn't ring or vibrate.

MarilynMonroe_2

ilovelondontown wrote: »

I have to agree with this.

While I don't agree with the principle of cold calling, I have been one. In my experience the people doing the job are young, students or people who don't have much else as means to get money to get paid. (I was all of these when I did it)

Remember the person at the other end of the phone is only human. If someone in the street offered you a leaflet you didn't want you'd say no thanks, shake your head or just walk away, you wouldn't shout at them or blow a whistle in their face, so why do it on the phone?

Edited: When you politely decline what they are selling, ask to be removed from their call list.

If only your suggestions actually worked!

there was a huge thread on this site years ago about a man being harrassed on the phone by a company and it was a laugh the things he got up to.