Cold calling ideas needed

sillygoose

Just had 3rd call today from Inter Defence Security Ltd (02036752398) despite asking them not to and being TPS registered on this number for a decade.

They are trying to flog overpriced monitored alarm systems under the pretence of being some sort of 'crime prevention officers'

If doing this is how you make your living then I pity you.

Yes you have a right to try to make a living, but what about my right to enjoy my home life in peace?, if I want something its my choice to go shopping, not the right of these people to invade my home with their shop abusing my right to have a phoneline.

I can see from the caller id they have called but they can't get through as after the first conversation I pressed the fantastic little button on my blocker so they can't get through any more.

Windows virus, Insulation, accident claims, ppi, alarms, tomorrow another...it will never end until these companies are driven out of business.

securityguy

MarilynMonroe wrote: »

Households signed up to the Telephone Preference Service still receive twice as many telemarketing calls as those who haven’t registered, research has found.''

When I looked at that research, it was incredibly shoddy and would get past a proper peer review. People who register with the TPS do so for a reason, normally that they're getting junk calls. Comparing them with people who haven't registered is pointless, because they probably weren't getting as many. The question is not the comparison with unregistered people, it's before/after registering for the same people.

It wouldn't be hard to construct a double-blind randomised trial. Recruit 100 people, assign them at random to two groups. Register one group with the TPS. After three months, interview them to ask if the call volumes have reduced. Bit of statistical handwaving, chi square, error bars, yadda yadda, good MSc project.

MarilynMonroe_2

maybe, but I get more calls snce I registered, I bet I am by no means the only one.

quidsy

crying reading this thread link, just brilliant.

I had a call today

Her: Hello is that XXX
Me: Yes, who are you & what do you want?
Her: I am calling from blah blah finance company (didn't register the name)
Me: Not interested thank you
Her: I didn't offer you anything
Me: So, whatever you are offering or whatever you are calling for, I am not interested
Her (now with an attitude): I just wanted to ask you a question
Me: And I don't want to be asked any question. good bye.

mtc95

alleycat` wrote: »

TPS works well but has no impact at all on the "foreign" call centres.
Buy a phone that lets you see who's calling, let it go to voice mail. Job done.

It doesn't help much for those of us who receive legimate calls from friends and family overseas. The caller display just shows "International" and you have no idea whether it's someone you want to talk to or not.

It really annoys me that the phone companies do not pass on the caller ID for overseas calls as I'm pretty sure they could retrieve the information - for calls from most developed countries at least. Even if it just showed the country that they were calling from it would help to filter out the junk.

Primrose

If you're referring to doorstep callers rather than phone callers contact the Trading Standards dept at your local council. Many of them are now setting up No Doorstep Trading Zones to help prevent fraud and selling scams and they will put up a notice on your street lamp posts. All you have to do then is tell the offenders to look at the lamp posts and they will see that they're not allowed to trade in the area. Incidentally there are fines for those doing so if they do it continually, but I guess they have to get caught at it.

JohnnyJet

Some of the comments here are bizarre, why should I have to waste my time answering a call that I do not want? I have signed up to the tps, I always ask to be taken off the list and I never give out my number frivolously but I still get several calls a day often from the same companies. What do these companies expect? Do they think that after the 50th time they call I will suddenly change my mind? I'm throughly fed up with it and the worst part is there is nothing I can do about it.

Lil_Me_2

Wol2 wrote: »

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

Thank you so much for the link! I read it a couple years ago and couldn't find it again when I wanted a giggle!

gregg1

Goldiegirl wrote: »

Why not just say no thank you and put the phone down.

They are only doing their job

And I have just finished my job and got home after a hard day at work (Which does NOT involve harassing people in the privacy of their own home). So the last thing I want, or, for that matter, have asked for, is for some numpty invading my privacy trying to sell me something I don't want.

It's quite simple, you cold call me, I WILL be rude to you. That is my prerogative if you force yourself uninvited into my home.

Georgiegirl256

gregg1 wrote: »

And I have just finished my job and got home after a hard day at work (Which does NOT involve harassing people in the privacy of their own home). So the last thing I want, or, for that matter, have asked for, is for some numpty invading my privacy trying to sell me something I don't want.

It's quite simple, you cold call me, I WILL be rude to you. That is my prerogative if you force yourself uninvited into my home.

Here here! :T