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General => General discussion => Topic started by: Khare on 19 November 2011, 13:14
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Keep getting calls from foreigners insisting I was in car accidents, I could claim PPI and all that sh!t. I've had 2 so far today, but I get them all the time. I'm usually always polite to them, telling them that I've not been in accidents or taken out a credit card or anything else they say I've done and I always ask them to take me off their database. Half of them just hang up as soon as you say you've not been in a car accident, the other half hang up as soon as you ask them to take you off the database.
Next time I'm going pi$$ them right off, going to start saying hold on I'll just get the owner of the house and leave the phone on hold until they get tired and hang up, asking them to please wait then I'll put some music in the background, just like they do, and if I get any more rude ones I'm going to tell them to simply fcuk off. So frigging tired of dropping whatever I'm doing, rushing to the phone and then some Indian bloke who barely speaks english, whose name is Mike or Roger starts insisting I was in a car accident last year and I was badly injured.
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I don't deal with them, just ignore them.
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I get em all the time too, but 9 out of 10 are recorded messages. I just put the phone down straight away, they ring a couple of times more at later dates, but they do get the idea eventually.
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Mention that you are signed up to the telephone preference service, they will apologise, hang up quickly and not ring back :wink:
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Mention that you are signed up to the telephone preference service, they will apologise, hang up quickly and not ring back :wink:
Will try it, as I already am TPS registered.
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Get them to speak to Siri.
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Bloody foreigners :rolleyes: :lipsrsealed:
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Get them to speak to Siri.
Wish there was an app were siri could speak to one of these telemarketers :grin:
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Have you tried the radical, "just hang up" method?
Works for me.
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I tried this full proof method a few years ago and never got another call since
Put the phone down, unplug it, never use it again, and only give out your mobile number. who uses landlines nowadays anyway!
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If I need to give out a number for marketing purposes such as Insurance Quotes etc, I simply use the number on my spare phone. This is switched off in the drawer for most of the year and only comes out for holidays. This way 1) I am not bothered if I lose my phone abroad and 2) I never get marketing calls. Job done :evil:
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Bloody foreigners :rolleyes: :lipsrsealed:
Yeah! I f@cking hate foreigners! tw@ts :angry: :grin:
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I let them babble on and say either I wasnt injured in a bump or that I know i cant claim back ppi lol.
Usually annoys them when they just talked crap for a few minutes.
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I pick up when and i hear its this type of call i just put the phone on the side and wait for them to hang up :grin:
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I have caller ID, if it's a number I don't recognise, I don't answer. If it's something important they can leave a message
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Thats paranoia not answering a number you don't recognise.
I answer them and once was pleasantly surprised as it was a girl I used to know from years back.
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I answer them and once was pleasantly surprised as it was a girl I used to know from years back.
.....and? :evil:
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nah it's not paranoia, like I said; if they want to leave a message they are welcome to
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i go along with it then wait for them to finish their 5 minute lecture then say I've never had an accident anywhere :D
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When I was living in the UK I'd just respond in Welsh until they hung up. Now I live in Spain I just speak English. Works for me!!