Unwanted Phone Calls

Nana Chuckles, In this financial climate ,I don't
suppose many of them actually choose to do this job. Two of my great nephews had to take a cold -calling job. as that was all they could get. It was very depressing and soul destroying. Now, even though these calls continue to annoy me, I do try to be polite when I say ''no, thank you''

I stopped these calls completely with a system called True Call. We got it via Amazon.

My daughter had a cold caller about installing a conservatory onto her home. The usual thing, we were in your area today and noticed that you don't have a conservatory and we are doing a very good deal if you sign up within the next 48 hours etc. My daughter played them along and said she would be delighted to have a conservatory built onto her property. She let the person go on for a good 10 or 15 mins before she asked him if he could confirm that someone had indeed seen her property then could he answer a question? Of course was the answer. Daughter then asked him when they had developed the ability to build a conservatory onto a flat? "You b***h!" was the reply before they hung up. As my daughter said "Well mum it's their money they are wasting and they have wasted enough of my time!"

Sometimes her partner, a former police officer gets the calls. He is always very polite and says "Oh thank you for calling, your just what I need. Can you hold on for a second till I get a chair to sit on?" He then goes about doing what it was before they interrupted him. Make a coffee, read the paper, watch the TV, play with his son etc before he returns to the phone about 5 mins later. If they are still there he quietly puts the phone down again and goes back to it 5 mins later again before hanging up. They very rarely get calls of this nature now and SIL believes that they communicate with each other and are blanking his number from their list.

I know these people need a job but, THEY choose to do this type of job so I am afraid that I don't have a lot of sympathy with them when they get SIL on the phone.

Do agree that these can be a huge nuisance as they nearly always come when you are busy doing something and have to hunt for the phone. Have to admit that I sometimes take a wicked pleasure in winding them up into knots if I am in the mood to be contrary. Can play the dizzy blond who doesn't understand, or the old biddy who has forgotten her own name - perhaps next time I might see if I can get away with pretending to be about 5 and claim that mummy and daddy have gone to the pub and left me home alone! But sometimes its just f* **f!

For the last week, I`ve had about 4 or 5 of these calls a day. Very annoying to have to leave whatever I`m doing to answer, and hear these Indian voices with so English names. It`s about time something similar to TPS could be sorted, so we could get rid of them.

I had a call last night, "good evening Mrs harri, this is Peter calling from the UK" Lies and more lies we are with TPS and his Indian accent was so thick I could barely understand him. Somebody phoned in the afternoon to say that they were working in the area and noticed we needed paths doing. The builders have only just left my property after months of work, including front drive. These callers get shirty when I point out they are clearly not working in the area otherwise they would know the work was done. I had only just put the phone down when it rang again, "it is about your Sky subscription, I need your details" I let him waffle on for 5 minutes before telling him I don't have Sky, yet another scam. I am sick of the calls but helpless to stop them from abroad.

This ought to help NanaChuckles. The Telephone Preference Service will help you get rid of those calls in the UK. Market Research seem to be able to continue, but if you read the other thread that discussed these nuisance calls, there's a few good suggestions about dealing with them.

www.mpsonline.org.uk/tps/whatistps.html