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Nuisance PPI calls every day!
technology_love
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For the last 6 months or so I've been getting nuisance Payment Protection Insurance calls from a different company each day on my work phone. The front end message often changes but its always the same thing.
So I started pressing 5 to speak to someone who would just say, sorry, we'll take your number off our books. The next day someone else calls. Happens at least twice a day.
I registered with TPS but that hasn't helped.
After giving up on being able to do anything else about I resorted to animal noises and random discussions such as DIY enema kits (they cut me off quick).
Yesterday I told a caller I'd taken a loan out three years ago to have a disc in my back removed so I could perform felatio on myself but that they had cocked up the op and I needed a second disc removed to actually get my head down there and was I entitled to get my PPI back?
Now I'm bored of silly conversations but the calls keep coming.
Does anyone else get this everyday and what can I do about it?
So I started pressing 5 to speak to someone who would just say, sorry, we'll take your number off our books. The next day someone else calls. Happens at least twice a day.
I registered with TPS but that hasn't helped.
After giving up on being able to do anything else about I resorted to animal noises and random discussions such as DIY enema kits (they cut me off quick).
Yesterday I told a caller I'd taken a loan out three years ago to have a disc in my back removed so I could perform felatio on myself but that they had cocked up the op and I needed a second disc removed to actually get my head down there and was I entitled to get my PPI back?
Now I'm bored of silly conversations but the calls keep coming.
Does anyone else get this everyday and what can I do about it?
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Oh the pain......
Cant say I've ever had one at work or home.
Lucky you (seriously). They are a right pain.
Im busy thinking of what I should talk to them about next (although I do a mean Gorilla screech impersonation)
Is there any way to make them stop?
In a word, no.
At least thats what it seems. :mad:
I tried that route - "sorry sir, we'll take you off our books and our company wont call again"
New company rings next day........
My reasoning was that if each call costs them money and they're getting messed around that they'll eventually remove my number from their list.
The calls did stop after a few weeks.
They keep calling me :mad:
I think they key may have been the fact that I actually answered the calls rather than cutting them off - that's what might have worked.
I never spoke - just went through the process till I pressed 5 and then did nothing.
Ok. When they call later I'll do that instead discussing the irritation of piles.
Yup. I hear the adverts on the radio too and get the calls at least twice a day. I don't even qualify but what if I did? Go through the process with a caller and then get called over and over from others? Gah!
http://www.truecall.co.uk/
You can program it with a list of allowed numbers that get through uninterrupted. Or a set of numbers you never want to answer which just get dumped without you having to do anything.
Everything in between and it intercepts the call and asks the caller to identify themselves. It then rings the phone tells you who is calling and lets you decide if you want to talk to them or not. Anyone who doesn't identify themselves just gets dropped.
You need to give people longer than 20 minutes to reply you know...
Fortunately, phones have limiters, so its not actually that loud at the other end!
All that'll happen is a note will be put on your number, so that the next person to get your call knows that it might happen. They might even schedule a call back for the next day, or add you to a list to be sold on just to spite you.
Don't forget that your data may well have been acquired legitimately, if so, then they're well within their rights to call you! It's also not the call center employee's fault that they've rung you, they'll have just had a beep in their ear and are made aware of who they're speaking to.
Your best bet is to just ignore the phone, if you do it for long enough then the number will be marked as dead. Make sure that you always check/uncheck (where relevant) any box that states that your information may be shared/used for marketing,and register with the TPS.
In short, be nice, respectful, and ask politely to be removed from any marketing lists/added to Do Not Call, also enquire as to where they've got your data from, so that you can pursue it with them.
Then put the phone on the table and go back to whatever I was doing.
I started doing this after I got one call one day from a young woman selling something or other. She was in full flow when I politely as I could cut across her and said "I'm sorry but no thanks love, I'm not interested " and hung up.
Ten seconds later she called back and said " I just want you to know, I know where you live!" and slammed the phone down.
Unfortunately it didn't sound as threatening as she was obviously hoping for due to the thick Brummy accent. :¬)
*Click*
Normally does the trick.
Also when did you register? It can take months to have an effect.