These "new boiler" phone calls

[matchmaker]

I am sick and fking fed up about receiving these fking calls about getting a new high efficiency fking boiler. Daily.Up till now I have been able to block the s future calls by adding their "spoofed" number to my call blocker.

Not any fking more. The bds phoned today using the number of our doctor's surgery! The message on the answerphone is the same fking st.

I can't exactly block the doctor's number!

fk, fk and more fk

Any ideas from the PH collective?

[motco]

matchmaker said:

I am sick and fking fed up about receiving these fking calls about getting a new high efficiency fking boiler. Daily.Up till now I have been able to block the s future calls by adding their "spoofed" number to my call blocker.

Not any fking more. The bds phoned today using the number of our doctor's surgery! The message on the answerphone is the same fking st.

I can't exactly block the doctor's number!

fk, fk and more fk

Any ideas from the PH collective?

My doctors' surgery always calls from a with-held number. It goes full circle!

[Petrol Only]

Buy one?

Might go away then.

[Peanut Gallery]

When I calmly told them my boiler was only 6 months old, could they pay for a new one, they stopped straight away. (probably on a timer, waiting to get going as soon as my boiler is "old") Worth a shot?

[MrBarry123]

Sounds quite an attractive proposition to me.

Do you have their number?

[marshalla]

Peanut Gallery said:

When I calmly told them my boiler was only 6 months old, could they pay for a new one, they stopped straight away. (probably on a timer, waiting to get going as soon as my boiler is "old") Worth a shot?

I guess you pressed the number to be connected to a human being to do that ? By doing that, you've probably consented to them calling you again - and passing your detaisl onto other timewasting cold callers.

[MX5_Nutter]

Tell em to fking stick their fking boiler up their fking aholes the bds. fkers.

[ApOrbital]

7/10 for the rant.

[Zoobeef]

They got really excited when I told them my boiler was a 24+ year old conventional boiler.

Then when I told them my gas bills were under £60 a quarter they were at a loss as to how a new combi would save me money.

[stuart-b]

Answer the phone and do one of the following:-

You: "Hello..."
Them: "Hi sir, can I interest you in a high efficiency boiler?"
You: "You've called John on the company extension you idiot, I'm sitting 3 rows down from you"
Them: "Sorry what?"
You: "I'm going to tell Chris what you did on Friday night, he won't be happy"
Them: "Sorry .. I'm confused, what?"
You: "Can't believe you did that..."



Or

You: "Hello..."
Them: "Hi sir, can I interest you in a high efficiency boiler?"
You: "Hi sir, can I interest you in a high efficiency boiler?"
Them: "Sorry, what?"
You: "Sorry, what?"

I can go on for hours... just play with them. I do - and it's funny how quickly they stop calling.

[Vaud]

"This is a police / military secure line. How did you get this number?"

[Monkeylegend]

Buy one and get them to invoice the Doctors.

[2gins]

Tell them you're glad they've called because you boiler is unsafe, ham up some story about a major gas explosion, hook them into thinking they've got an order and then when the time comes to give address or payment details explain you can't possibly do that because you died in the explosion.

Was suggested on a thread about ambulance chasers, tried it myself, found it quite amusing.

[wildcat45]

MrBarry123 said:

Sounds quite an attractive proposition to me.

Do you have their number?

I'm a Geordie. It perked my interest too. Canny boyla!