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Do you hate cold callers on the phone or at your door?
TragicDoggie
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If you do and you have a UK address why not sign the online petition below.
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/52542
The petition closes on the 11th of July 2014 and in my opinion needs a bit of a numbers kick at the moment.
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/52542
The petition closes on the 11th of July 2014 and in my opinion needs a bit of a numbers kick at the moment.
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I detest them. I have to answer my 'phone because my mum is unwell and am regularly dealing with all kinds of health professionals calling me, sometimes from unknown numbers, and these can be important. I have a rather cheeky answerphone message that hopefully deters them from trying again when I am out. I don't get many door-to-door ones to the house but they just get short shrift as I point to the sign on my door telling them 'No....'
I understand that many of them are just doing a job and probably don't get paid enough to take some of the abuse they'll inevitably get. I don't get abusive with them but just put the 'phone down.
Simple, and it does work.
Stuck this on the old front door, guess what.... Jehovahs, salesmen, utilities, charidee clipboarders...non existent ever since. They still drop bags off but I don't mind that.
As for the phone, I just put the phone down, lol.
You'd be surprised how nice a large % of people are on the phone. It was perhaps only 1 in 15 people that would should an expletive down the phone.
Edit: Don't get me wrong though, it was a horrendous job. Most people only lasted 2 weeks in the job and underperforming employees were often shouted out at every opportunity. I do remember this when I receive cold calls from people who were once me!
However recently I have had one company trying to call me non stop. They call day and night hour by hour. They either ask for people not at the address or trying to get me to do a survey. They are clearly just trying to get my details and no requests to leave me alone work. In the end I have been forced just not to answer the phone in the hope they will give up.
So I agree with the idea but what do you expect the government to do about it ? The company in question calling me are based in India. So how would you actually stop them calling us ?
I've had a few at the door. To my shame I once gave some money to a very attractive young woman who claimed to be raising money for charity. Apparently this is a known scam - we also had a lad claiming to be raising money for kids to train at a London Premier League ground, but I'd already heard of that scam and sent him away empty-handed.
EDIT
Must go and re-register on TPS. Forgot to when I moved a couple of months ago.
We also get a few purporting to be from MIcrosoft, who are clearly scam merchants. I try to string them along for a while if I have the time.
I often just ignore them when they knock at my door. Some continue to knock or wave at me if they see me through the window, but when I don't respond at all most give up after a few minutes.
We used to have a lot where I used to live so this was a necessary step. I would have gone to the door and been polite but I got bored of the tactic of over talking me or trying to hit me with the hard sell despite me saying 'no thank you'. The ignore method worked wonders and my address soon got left alone. Cheaper than a sticker too
Where I live now isn't plagued by cold callers thankfully.
As for phone calls, I politely say no thanks and hang up.
Cold callers who are middle aged men who carry gardening tools and want to make some money in summer doing gardens I feel quite sorry for them all they want to do is earn money and pay their bills , this is a sign of the times . Some of them do a good job and are decent people
Those who call from foreign countries annoy me the most , their English is usually bad and refuse to say where they got my number . I recently moved house and refuse to get a land line because of cold callers
I do similar with the landline. I never use it. In fact if BT didn't insist on us having one for our fibre optic broadband I wouldn't have one at all. Nobody except cold callers call me on it and I get free outgoing calls on my mobile. The handset sits on silent, gathering dust.
Phone, annoying
I just say sorry and hang up
"I'm not cold calling."
"Did I invite you to press my door buzzer?"
"No."
"Then you are cold calling."
"No I'm not."
Yes we have a land line for that reason. It infuriates me that we have the rental to pay for the damned thing. They must have suffered because of cold callers. So many are now from call centres in other countries too and TPS doesn't block those.
Yes, I switched mine off over a year ago, because almost every call was a nuisance one. I do still use it, but only for the odd outbound call. But I really only keep it because of my broadband.
My mobile No gets given out to no-one except those who know me, and a few trusted tradesmen. .
Two weeks ago I had a cold caller on my mobile for three days in a row. A flaming recorded message each time. None since but what happens if that's the new invasion? Also where did they get my number from?