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this is true!
swerni said:
Because of this thread, I decided to answer the phone to an international caller this evening.
They tried to sell me a subscription to a magazine
I tried to sell them a pension ( no idea why as I don't sell pensions)
They were very put out by some of the personal questions I was asking and a tad confused.
Much more fun than ignoring them or abusing them.
They tried to sell me a subscription to a magazine
I tried to sell them a pension ( no idea why as I don't sell pensions)
They were very put out by some of the personal questions I was asking and a tad confused.
Much more fun than ignoring them or abusing them.
I'm definitely trying that. At work we answer all calls. At home I am on the advertising opt out system and answer all calls. Most calls are worth answering surprising number of people withhold numbers for whatever reason, frequently the dialing system they use opts to no ID in default.
My mobile: I answer all calls again on the opt out advertising system, very few advertisers turn up again as above withhelds are often not intentional.
TBH there is no one I would not wish to talk to. Including five ex wives.
How the conversation goes, is of course another thing altogether. I never offer any personal information to incoming calls unless I know the caller. Years of getting other individuals out of the financial consequences of being the vitims of stupid scams taught me that.
My mobile: I answer all calls again on the opt out advertising system, very few advertisers turn up again as above withhelds are often not intentional.
TBH there is no one I would not wish to talk to. Including five ex wives.
How the conversation goes, is of course another thing altogether. I never offer any personal information to incoming calls unless I know the caller. Years of getting other individuals out of the financial consequences of being the vitims of stupid scams taught me that.
OdramaSwimLaden said:
Origin Unknown said:
Why are people so frightened of saying "No thank you" and hanging up when a call centre rings?
If you answer it goes down as an answered call and you will get more and more calls.My knowledge comes from many years working in telecoms.
otolith said:
I think Ofcom should force telcos to give a free option to decline all number withheld / number unavailable calls. That would immediately remove the assortment of cold calling scum and scammers I get pestered by.
If you have an Android phone, then create a new google contact with a blank number and name it Restricted or Withheld or whatever. Then, when that contact has synced to your phone you can set up a rule to forward all calls from that "contact" to wherever you like. Or block it altogether.I send mine to VM. It never even rings.
Mermaid said:
lazystudent said:
I always answer withheld numbers! Usually a chance for some call centre fun!
Call centres should be charged (you get the credit) for each unsolicited call they make.The basics were that people registered with an organisation something like TPS. The lists were freely available, as they are with the TPS, Any company cold calling, and ignoring/not checking these lists, automatically agreed to pay a fee to use the inconvenienced users phone. I forget how much it was, but it was enough to hurt them.
String the cold call along until you have the name of the company bothering you, then claim the charge.
Absolutely brilliant idea IMHO.
philthy said:
Mermaid said:
lazystudent said:
I always answer withheld numbers! Usually a chance for some call centre fun!
Call centres should be charged (you get the credit) for each unsolicited call they make.The basics were that people registered with an organisation something like TPS. The lists were freely available, as they are with the TPS, Any company cold calling, and ignoring/not checking these lists, automatically agreed to pay a fee to use the inconvenienced users phone. I forget how much it was, but it was enough to hurt them.
String the cold call along until you have the name of the company bothering you, then claim the charge.
Absolutely brilliant idea IMHO.
if it's anybody important,they will leave a message or if it's someone that knows me,their name will be on the display 
lazystudent said:
Sounds interesting- some sort of implied contract?
Along those lines.The cold callers baulked at it, and were taken to court. The presiding judge listened to them squirm, then announced he was finding in favour of the poor buggers who were getting disturbed by them.
Apparently, the company arguing it was ok to market this way, had called him three times the previous evening!
If only OFCOM had the balls to introduce something similar here.
king cheak of them to do that. Just hung up as soon as i heard thatSince I got a home phone number with a London prefix I get a ridiculous number of spam calls, auto dialler calls etc, even though I'm registered with TPS. I think the number used to belong to someone dodgy too as I'm constantly getting calls from different companies, schools etc asking "Shirley x" to call them back. Now I just let the answer machine get it & if it's someone I want to talk to I'll pick up. 9 times out of 10 it's just silent though.
Famous Graham said:
otolith said:
I think Ofcom should force telcos to give a free option to decline all number withheld / number unavailable calls. That would immediately remove the assortment of cold calling scum and scammers I get pestered by.
If you have an Android phone, then create a new google contact with a blank number and name it Restricted or Withheld or whatever. Then, when that contact has synced to your phone you can set up a rule to forward all calls from that "contact" to wherever you like. Or block it altogether.I send mine to VM. It never even rings.
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