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Cold callers who won't admit they are cold callers
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Just had a woman phone up and ask for the home owner. I asked who was calling and she said *company name I've never heard of*...I said the home owner wouldn't be interested as this is a sales call. The woman went on a spiel saying anything she could to avoid admitting she was a cold caller. To everything she said, I replied "you're selling something" and by about the fourth round of this she said something about making your home safer, like her calling was doing me a favour...but she STILL wouldn't admit it was a cold call. At this point, I got bored and hung up but it was fun to hear her squirming and trying every trick in the book to avoid admitting to being someone who was selling something.
Do these people think we were born yesterday? I feel a bit insulted, to be honest!
Anyone else experienced this sort of stuff with cold callers?
Do these people think we were born yesterday? I feel a bit insulted, to be honest!
Anyone else experienced this sort of stuff with cold callers?
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Seriously though, I have developed a system which enables me to instantly recognise cold callers. Basically, this company asked me for all my details and whether I wanted a variety of services from insurance to broadband. Suspecting what little information I had would be passed on anyway, I decided to give him a false name and tell him I was ibnterested in everything. Now when cold callers contact me asking for that person, I know what sort of call it is and end the call instantly.
The one today was English. They often are Indian though, and I can almost never understand them...I just say "no thanks" and hang up as soon as I hear an accent. Anything else is just not worth it!
ave you had the ppi one where its a recorded message: your claim has now been dealth, and payment is ready, please press 5
No [EMAIL="f@cking"]f@cking[/EMAIL] chance, and get landed with a bigger bill than normal, this call will cost you £5 per minute, and 6 minutes of pre-recorded message, before getting put through to options...press 1 to speak to an operator...this call will cost you £10 per min .....:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
I'm not normally rude either but some of them practically beg you to be. I also think these deceitful tactics like trying to avoid admitting who you are from the start are a big no-no.
Did you see the programme Panorama did on cold calling? It was shocking.
Unless you specifically ask somebody to phone you, every other call is a cold call, regardless of if they are trying to sell you something or not.
Just being pedantic
We had one call early in the morning the other day as well. If this becomes a regular thing I'll probably end up smashing up my phone. It's bad enough when they call in the evening when people are eating/relaxing. :mad:
No i didnt see it, but i do hate it when they use my Mums first name as if shes their friend? wtf is that about..
However I absolutely hate computer virus scammers - or rather, not the people calling up, but the people who set up the call centres to do this in the first place. I understand people are trying to do a job and support their family, which is why I'm not needlessly rude to cold callers, but the computer virus scam is illegal.
That was one hell of a cold call.
I hate when they call ever. I almost prefer it when I'm in my bed because the phone's at the other end of the house down here. I stop what I'm doing and stomp over (usually tripping over one of the pets or stubbing my toe on a rubber bone) because it might be family or something otherwise important, and it's some arsey wee PPI guy telling me that I can too make a claim. I have never taken out any kind of loan! Go away! Or those bloody Microsoft scammers. My mum's an IT tech and she got her first one of those the other day, she just laughed down the phone at him for about two full minutes.
3 weeks later bt again, same offer, tell them, not interested, and I must get atleast 6 calls per month from bt
I hate that too. I don't know when or why people became so afraid of formality but fake mateyness is a huge hatred of mine and I could rant on and on about it.
Not had a cold caller address me by my first name yet but they do always mispronounce my surname and it's not really difficult. A somewhat uncommon surname it might be, but you just say it like it's spelled. :cool: