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Dealing with cold callers (phone)
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If you're registered with the Telephone Preference Service in order to not recieve unsolicited sales/marketing calls but you still get some, I found this which gives some handy advice on what to do, especiall in the "Ten things to say when you get a junk phone call" link.
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thats how it goes in my house.
Sorry, I didn't realise that people from outside the UK used this site - it's for us only.
" Hello is this Mr x. . hello my name is David and im calling on behalf of an authorised orange dealer " - " No thank you we're not interested " - " Oh but Mr x do you not use a mobile phone " - " well actually no we dont " - " oh ok sorry - hangs up "
The second call was similar to above except as soon as they said " authorised orange dealer i jumped in and said no thanks and that was as far as he got.
However the 3rd person cracked me up. It was a woman this time, same spiel about authorised orange dealer, at this point i interrupted her and said " look your the third person who has called here within a few hours, do you have a supervisor or similar who i can talk to to get you people to stop calling here " --- she then says " Oh ok " and hung up on me
and i havent heard from them since
Exactly.
Although i hate it when the phone rings and rings and everytime you answer it there is a kind of dial up noise in the background.
Fucking bloody phones!
"Hello, I'm calling from BT"
to which I would interrupt "Sorry, I don't have a phone"
and hang up.
But last night I let this guy go on and on for about 15mins thinking that he had a sale until the last minute when I told him that I wasn't interested and never was and just wanted to know that he had just wasted 15mins of his life and mine.
that actually made me laugh out loud.
I usually just politely say thanks for calling but im not interested, and then put the phone down before they can argue, but from now on im gonna use that one!
:yes:
Or just put the phone down on the side without hanging up and leave it their till their done.
Once I but the phone down so i could hear they where talking and went off and made a cup of tea, then i went sorry what was that you just said? I was just making some tea. Phone went dead.
Though I might try Gerbil's idea, sounds nice. Or perhaps scare them somehow.
Always makes me wonder about how they can even expect to be trusted when lieing in their opening statement
'oh no you can't be spelling it that way sir.'
thats how it's spelt ok!
'you cant be speeling it without vowels sahib'
yes i fucking can cos this is wales!
'no need to be loosing your temper good sir but you cannot be spelling it like this.'
down goes the phone.
even worse ...i phone our electricity supplier and a robot asks me to speak the account number.
i have a very deep voice ...it doesn't recognise what i'm saying ...i cross my legs tightly and attempt to speak in a higher pitch ...speak slower ...faster ...end up getting the wife to do it!
dont you mean three, you gotta say please to begin with