"Sales call" warning to anyone selling a car...
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put my car up for sale last weekend (separate story!) and on the ads I wrote something about "politely no canvassers". Since then I have had between 2 and 4 calls a day from the same firm. They call and hang up, first time I called them back, realised they were canvassers and (politely) told them I was not interested. Got a call back that night and another and....
Have made two further calls to them to make it explicitly clear that I am not interested yet the calls keep coming and they refuse to give the name of the parent company. The phone number to look out for is 01592 777 800
If anyone has any ideas as to how to stop this I would be most grateful, have also filled in the OFCOM nuisance and sales calls form, can only help clamp down on these jokers.... www.ofcom.org.uk/complain/mobile/unwanted/sales/?itemid=285970
Have made two further calls to them to make it explicitly clear that I am not interested yet the calls keep coming and they refuse to give the name of the parent company. The phone number to look out for is 01592 777 800
If anyone has any ideas as to how to stop this I would be most grateful, have also filled in the OFCOM nuisance and sales calls form, can only help clamp down on these jokers.... www.ofcom.org.uk/complain/mobile/unwanted/sales/?itemid=285970
Ask them to hang on while you fetch the seller. Leave the phone still connected and go do something else, leaving them waiting until they hang up.
Talk complete bollox to them about I dunno, wether salmon or trout is best, anything really.
Pretend to be from Sweden and do an impression of Meaker from Sesame Street.
Basically do anything that makes it a ballache for them to phone you.
I've done 1 and 2 but haven't yet done 3.
Talk complete bollox to them about I dunno, wether salmon or trout is best, anything really.
Pretend to be from Sweden and do an impression of Meaker from Sesame Street.
Basically do anything that makes it a ballache for them to phone you.
I've done 1 and 2 but haven't yet done 3.
Ok, very immature, but, saying "Hello!" normally, and then making a farting sound with your mouth, quietly, and playing along with them, while subtly farting between sentences out to get their goat. 
What I did once was to hold down one of the buttons, so it goes beeeep and then saying off!!! It does the trick...
What I did once was to hold down one of the buttons, so it goes beeeep and then saying off!!! It does the trick...
ps2gamer890 said:
What I did once was to hold down one of the buttons, so it goes beeeep and then saying off!!! It does the trick...
Hee hee, that is a rather good idea, allows you to vent without actually being offensive. Another one (for Indian telecoms salespersons) is "Oh, hang on, I will just put you through... to the hanging-up department"... bzzzz......
Gareth
FourWheelDrift said:
Ah, Business Calls Direct in Fife the direct marketing people. TPS them.
www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/
Doesn't work with canvassers.
Personally I just ask them politely to wait, and continue doing whatever it was I was up to before I was interrupted. Was.
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