veedoo from threegi
 

Re: veedoo from threegi
 

They are sooooooooo annoying. I can usually tell that it's a telesales call as soon as i pick up the phone, there is a pause of about 2/3 seconds before they reply to you. I usually just put the phone down, but recently i've started to answer the phone, then just leave it on the side for about 5 mins. I can hear them at the other end "hello .......... hello ............hello .........". Welcome to my world.

:eek:

Re: veedoo from threegi
 

could be closer to home than you think willow..maybe Ormerod street?..then again "treegi" or "veedoo" ..sounds like gobbinlanders, "aye up asti skend mi vidi an tu got treegi" common chat for the bods livin up from clock

Re: veedoo from threegi
 

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Oh Willow, that was hilarious, made me spill my coffee LOL!

Re: veedoo from threegi
 

.......... nice one Willow :rofl38:

I had, imo, the height of ignorance the other day. Phone rings I pick it up and it's an automated machine that was on the line! I can't tell you who the company was, it got the whole of 15 seconds of my time before I put the phone down!

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When i answer the phone if they dont say hiya back straight away i put the phone down - that way i dont get any of these calls. A couple of years ago i picked the phone up and it was a bloke who was selling double glazing and i said ive got double glazing i dont need it oh but you dont have ours ours is the best on the market. I put the phone down then. I've found though if you say your house is a council house they put the phone down on you!

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It's not only the accents that are the problem. I had one of these foriegn telesales people on the phone the other week trying to sell me a new mobile. I informed him, that my phone is provided by the company i work for (it isn't, but this usually does the trick), therefore i didn't need a new one. He then continued to explain the benefits of their phone package. Again i told him that if i need a new mobile, work will supply it for me. "Yes, but, we are cheaper" he tells me, once more i tell him that work pay the bills, so the cost is irrelevant to me. He then ask me if i'd like my own personal phone. To this i replied ..............

WHAT? & CARRY TWO PHONES AROUND WITH ME? ARE YOU F@CKING STUPID?

Strange how the line went dead at that point.

:eek:

Re: veedoo from threegi
 

I think I've mentioned it before on here about how I got rid of the cold caller that caught me on one of my days when I was just feeling 'that way out'. ;)

It was a salesperson trying to sell me a mobile phone, the conversation was getting very tedious so in the end I just said "look, I'm more than happy with the phone I have, it's an excellent phone". He made the mistake of saying "why is it excellent?". I said "Because it does this" ....... click :D

Re: veedoo from threegi
 

Excellent. My usual reply's are ................

Home insurance - Not my house (parents).

Car insurance - Can't drive.

Double glazing - Rented house.

Mobile phone - Supplied by work.

these tend to work.

:D

Re: veedoo from threegi
 

For some reason when these people ring me they end up confused.

My name 'Leslie Westwood'

Their attempts at pronouncing it hilarious!

The friendly ones that give themselves an English sounding name are the best.

Them "Hello, lelly weoood this is Tracey"
me "pardon?"
Them again "Hello, lelly weoood this is Tracey"
me "Sorry, no lelly weoood at this address"
Them "No not, lelly weoood, lellsey wetood"
me "Sorry no Idea who your talking about"
Them "you not lelly weoood?"
me "no I not lelly weoood or any relation who did you say you are?"
Them "me, I Tracey"
me "Oh Tracey, sorry why didn't you say that to begin with how are you luv', (long silence because luv' is not on their standard phraseology crib sheet).
Them "I Tracey, and I ring about"
me "look Tracey if your ringing about last night I'm sorry, I know we said we'd meet for a drink but I went for a few with the lads......"

On and on this conversation goes with poor little tracey trying to work out what the heck sort of conversation she is having, but I don't care they are paying for the call and until they realise that they are not going to be able to mention their product or get a word in edgeways I'm not hanging up.

I suppose if I was really evil I could treat it as a free phone sex chat up line but even I'm not quite that perverse, I'm quite happy to continue until I hear a little sigh of dismay or the first hint of a sob then I let them go. 'cos I'm a good boy really ain't I?:D

Re: veedoo from threegi
 

I usually go with
" I`m sorry Mr Lynn was murdered during the night and I`m just removing the body.."
They don`t usually have an answer for that!

Re: veedoo from threegi
 

I've just tried a new one, Some gentleman with an accent I could not possibly describe tried to talk, so I said, "sorry this must be a bad line I can't understand you, can I give you my other telephone number?". He was over the moon with gratitude, "have you a pen and paper?" Yes he has, "0845 300 44 XX", He hung up with the promise to ring me straight back, I wonder if he really did need car insurance?:D

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I've just had one trying to sell insurance, nothing new there except they asked for Mr ******. When i said im sorry you cant speak to him they asked if they could ring back later to speak to him i said he died 20 years ago. Why dont they look at electoral rolls or census forms? Wonder where they got the name from though?

Re: veedoo from threegi
 

Oh I love it when they ask for someone who has died and I say they don't live here anymore so they ask if I know the new addreess. - well I suppose it all depends if they were good'uns or bad'uns doesn't it?;)

Re: veedoo from threegi
 

Once I have identified that the caller is someone trying to sell me something a very loud and very angry B***** off sends them merrily on their way. If I recognise the voice then they get both barrels. Use your imagination for what words I use.

I only get maybe two or three a week now instead of the more normal three or four a day.

Do you think that it is something I said?

The most common mistake that people make with these tele-sales calls is that the recipient engages the caller in a conversation and that gives them an opportunity to waste your time.

Re: veedoo from threegi
 

Calling the telephone preferance service did the trick.Iwas getting the b******s calling up to six times a day at the most annoying of times.The number is 0845 070 0707 if anyone needs it.The service is free.:)

Re: veedoo from threegi
 

How can the service be free, when it's got an 0845 (local rate) number?

:confused:

Re: veedoo from threegi
 

All you need to do is ring the TPS once and register and then you shouldn't be bothered by callers ever again.

And if you do get a cold call ever again all you have to do is say that you've signed up with TPS and they apologise profusely and put the phone down on you so quickly - it's very funny hearing them fluster about how much of a mistake it was to have you on their list in the first place.

I think that people who do the mega cold calling have to be registered to use BT phone numbers and so if you're a member of TPS you've basically told BT that you don't want to be called. This means that anyone who calls either hasn't reregistered with BT (going to be in big trouble if reported to BT) or never registered in the first place (probably illegal cold calling). Either way it puts the fear of bejesus into them and they hang up very, very quickly.

Re: veedoo from threegi
 

Re: veedoo from threegi
 

Yep, I'm with talk talk.

Seriously recommend it. It takes about four or five weeks after registering for it to start taking effect but once it does you get tons less calls.

Re: veedoo from threegi
 

You can also register with TPS online, I did and within weeks the calls stopped. I only ever get occasional calls now from some American sounding recorded voice saying that I have won a holiday. I hang up on these immediately.

I had one call about 3 months after joining TPS, when I told them I was on TPS they hung up pronto..:D

Re: veedoo from threegi
 

sorry,only quoting the letter they sent.

Re: veedoo from threegi
 

No worries. They probably meant that it was a free service, not free call.

:D

Re: veedoo from threegi
 

Very funny Willow.

So when do you get your Fijian voodoo doll?:D

Re: veedoo from threegi
 

Something else.They ring you every hour of the day , but (as one gullible member of my family found out) you try to get in touch with their customer services nobody wants to answer the phone.Again threegi.:mad:

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