eurosaint Posted 3 November, 2011 Share Posted 3 November, 2011 I consider telephone 'cold calling' as an invasion of privacy and have used the BT (so called!) blocking service ! It is patently wrong that companies acquire your personal details and sell them on for profit (IMHO). I appreciate that people have to earn a living but the risk of scams is much higher by trading this way and also much of what they tell you is boll0x ! I once had a bird from Talktalk on the line extolling their virtues but even when I informed her that I would not use the company if they were the last one on planet Earth (I'd previously had a bad experience with them!) she kept on and on.... Basically I don't need it and get well p1ssed off when they interrupt my dinner etc ! Yes, I am an old f@rt, but I have no sympathy whatsoever for any of them now ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Warrior Posted 3 November, 2011 Share Posted 3 November, 2011 Like the rest of you I hate these calls. When they ask for Me or the Missus , I just say they died last week and I would appreciate that they respect our mourning. They then become very apologetic . It really messes their minds up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suewhistle Posted 3 November, 2011 Share Posted 3 November, 2011 If it's any consolation we get them in Italy as well. The phone callers I just say I'm not interested thank you and put the phone down, the religious callers I lose all my Italian and speak in English (this applies in the street as well) and the vacuum cleaner salespeople... They exist and have called a number of times. Once a trainee called and I got rid of him in my usual polite and efficient way. A bit later another call - the same guy looking very sheepish with obviously his sales manager and a woman who was trying to look into my house to see what sort of floor covering I had. I smiled sympathetically at the first guy and then started on the bosses in their sharp suits. "Didn't your colleague say he had visited me?"....I quite enjoyed myself. They're extortionately priced machines as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 3 November, 2011 Share Posted 3 November, 2011 If it's any consolation we get them in Italy as well. The phone callers I just say I'm not interested thank you and put the phone down, the religious callers I lose all my Italian and speak in English (this applies in the street as well) and the vacuum cleaner salespeople... They exist and have called a number of times. Once a trainee called and I got rid of him in my usual polite and efficient way. A bit later another call - the same guy looking very sheepish with obviously his sales manager and a woman who was trying to look into my house to see what sort of floor covering I had. I smiled sympathetically at the first guy and then started on the bosses in their sharp suits. "Didn't your colleague say he had visited me?"....I quite enjoyed myself. They're extortionately priced machines as well. Would these be the Kirby vacuum cleaner crew? I knew a couple of people who worked for them in real life. Utter sea nuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 3 November, 2011 Share Posted 3 November, 2011 Like the rest of you I hate these calls. When they ask for Me or the Missus , I just say they died last week and I would appreciate that they respect our mourning. They then become very apologetic . It really messes their minds up I had a call at my business asking to speak to my business partner Mr. J...... saying that my partner had asked him to give us a call at around this time. I asked him when this would have been and he said "about 3 months ago" so I said "I don't think he would have" and he insisted that this was true, so I told him several times in various ways that this would have been unlikely and he kept on insisting that he had been asked by my partner to give us a return call. Then I told him that J.... had died six years before and he went very quiet. I still get junk mail for J...., even after more than 8 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Bateman Posted 3 November, 2011 Share Posted 3 November, 2011 Unfortunately not, I was signing people up for grants for home insulation. Spent most of my summer up in dusty lofts in Totton while my mates were off seeing the world. Sigh. If I bothered anyone over the summer with my house calls, I apologise! I thought you lived in Fleet?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_in_munich Posted 3 November, 2011 Share Posted 3 November, 2011 When they call me I ask them if I can put them on hold for as I have another call coming through, I then leave the phone on the side and go back to the tv. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 3 November, 2011 Share Posted 3 November, 2011 I end the call but dont put the phone down. It then blocks their line for as many hours as I feel like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwertySFC Posted 3 November, 2011 Share Posted 3 November, 2011 Cold callers on the phone - I let them know that the service / product is really what I'm looking for and pleased they had called - then just say Oh let me turn the gas down on my dinner wont be a sec - I have gone back to the phone 10 minutes later and you can still hear the quite hello ... Hello.. Then pick it up and say sorry about that where were we -- oh hold on let me let the dog out into the garden this usually keeps them holding for another 5 minutes - Its great fun - then just hang up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saints1980 Posted 3 November, 2011 Share Posted 3 November, 2011 Cold callers on the phone - I let them know that the service / product is really what I'm looking for and pleased they had called - then just say Oh let me turn the gas down on my dinner wont be a sec - I have gone back to the phone 10 minutes later and you can still hear the quite hello ... Hello.. Then pick it up and say sorry about that where were we -- oh hold on let me let the dog out into the garden this usually keeps them holding for another 5 minutes - Its great fun - then just hang up ...and have your phone number written on every pub toilet door in town.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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