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Old 08-03-2012, 20:06   #1
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Telephone Preference Service

After trying to have a couple of quiet days at home i've now registered for the above service

Today I've received 3 calls regarding car insurance, 2 for home insurance 1 regarding making a will, 1 to protect my sky TV equipment, 2 for PPI refunds and 2 calls that were legitimate

Being out at work I wonder if today was just a one off or is it like this everyday

Has anybody else used the service and does it work?
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Old 08-03-2012, 20:09   #2
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Re: Telephone Preference Service

see this loooong thread
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...alls-5842.html
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Old 08-03-2012, 20:17   #3
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After trying to have a couple of quiet days at home i've now registered for the above service

Today I've received 3 calls regarding car insurance, 2 for home insurance 1 regarding making a will, 1 to protect my sky TV equipment, 2 for PPI refunds and 2 calls that were legitimate

Being out at work I wonder if today was just a one off or is it like this everyday

Has anybody else used the service and does it work?
It's like this all the time, despite singing up to the TPS.

I screen my calls now, on the answerphone, and only pick-up if it isn't an unsolicited call.

Safer.

As I've ocasionally been called by someone newly diagnosed with Parkinson's, who can suffer with hesitation in speech, but I thought was the time delay from India, to go forth and multiply!

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Old 08-03-2012, 20:22   #4
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The calls from the asian sub continent still get through....as do a few others.
I have been telling the callers that their call is illegal....and having ascertained first, the name of the company calling, I tell them they are going to be reported to the Commisioner for information and their firm will get a five thousand pound fine.....they ring off pretty damn sharpish.
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Old 08-03-2012, 20:35   #5
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Depending what mood I'm in I sometimes string along the calls from India for ages, agreeing with everything they are telling me and saying yes/ok at various times - I take it they're paying for the call so I'll ty and inconvienience them as much as possible
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Old 08-03-2012, 21:02   #6
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I'd just like to point out that I did actually 'sign' up for the TPS.

I'm not still getting calls because I sang my request.

Asking to be freakin' well leave me in peace.

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Old 08-03-2012, 21:04   #7
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Depending what mood I'm in I sometimes string along the calls from India for ages, agreeing with everything they are telling me and saying yes/ok at various times - I take it they're paying for the call so I'll ty and inconvienience them as much as possible

I have had some fun with calls too.......I have asked them if they are a friend of the deceased and did they know them well. that usually sends them into a bit of a tailspin.
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Old 08-03-2012, 22:23   #8
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We signed up when last thread was going, get very few n far between now, though not sure if its the service,or the fact we used to answer,leave phone in other room.
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Old 09-03-2012, 08:46   #9
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I am signed up for the service but still get loads of sales calls and this morning at 4.11 am received a call from 02034554012. When I picked the phone up it was just a dialling tone and this morning have done a bit of research and it seems a lot of people get these calls during the night which to me is really not on.
Bearing in mind I have elderly parents and my dad is really not well at the moment you can imagine my thoughts when the phone goes off in the middle of the night. People tell me to switch the phone off but for obvious reaons I can't.
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Old 09-03-2012, 09:35   #10
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I signed up years ago but still get these calls I've even registered to try and stop foreign calls too but I still get um, had two from the same lot yesterday calling themselves the British Credit agency or something like that, telling me they could help me solve my debt problems, when I told the chap that his company weren't very good on research he couldn't understand me, I just said well if you'd troubled to do any instead of just dialling a random number you could have save yourself time and money seeing I have never had any debt, now sod off and don't bother me again, or words to that effect
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Old 09-03-2012, 13:10   #11
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the companies get around it now by doing surveys .When rang me i tod them they shouldnt be ringing me but they just said nope they were ok to becaus ethey were doing a service.Also BT mazingly enough dont have the ability to block telesales coming in from other countries so comapnaies are moving abroad so they can annoy everyone again
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Old 09-03-2012, 18:40   #12
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the companies get around it now by doing surveys .When rang me i Tod them they shouldn't be ringing me but they just said nope they were ok to because they were doing a service.Also BUT amazingly enough dont have the ability to block telesales coming in from other countries so companies are moving abroad so they can annoy everyone again
Ya well I've now brushed up on words with my words of one syllable, to tackle these annoying irks from abroad, and let um have bother barrels when they ring, two this afternoon
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Old 10-03-2012, 16:34   #13
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Another good tactic is to ask them to hold because the person they need to speak to is in another room, then just leave em dangling.
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Old 10-03-2012, 16:45   #14
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Another good tactic is to ask them to hold because the person they need to speak to is in another room, then just leave em dangling.
I do that with people I know.

'Mr. Rindy he in baff.'

'I no leave you long time.'

'I just go kitchen, tell him.'



Then I go and make a brew.

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Old 10-03-2012, 17:19   #15
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You baff in the Kitchen??????
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