CAN SOMEONE HELP

[smithy69]

this bloody number has rang me about 20 times this morning and then puts the phone down

anyone know what it is

08001385425

[ifm]

Google says...........................http://forums.hexus.net/archive/index.php/t-68597.html

[ifm]

Also this: http://www.cellbanter.com/forumdisplay.php?f=19&page=5&sort=title&order=asc&pp=20&daysprune=365

Appears to be a mobile phone brokers.

[Trace]

I had a Newcastle number keep ringing me between 1pm- 3pm for about 3 weeks on the trot, I work, so it was never answered, never did find out who they were or what they wanted.      01913354000

The way I see it is if it's important they will have my mobile number or the nous to leave a message on my home phone.

I hardly ever answer withheld numbers nowadays, if after I have said hello they dont speak back immediately, I hang up.  I'm contemplating putting a block on withheld numbers on my home number, all of my famliy know how to get around the block if they need to speak to me.

Cold calling bugs the sh*t outta me.

[ifm]

I never answer my home phone, ever.
Nobody i know has it.

[AndrewT]

Yes, Orange resellers are absolute pains in the arse. They just get a list of Orange numbers and then call each one, asking the person if they're coming to the end of their contract and offering them a deal. There's no pre-checking to see if you are of any use to them. I even kept getting phoned up by the company that I was actually signed up with, asking if I was nearing the end of my contract.

'No. I signed a new contract with you lot three weeks ago you dippy tart.'

[Trace]

How do you know she's a tart?

[Claw75]

http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/

[smithy69]

CHEERS GUYS - ONCE AGAIN 1ST CLASS RESPONSES

[mikkyT]

Yes, Orange resellers are absolute pains in the arse. They just get a list of Orange numbers and then call each one, asking the person if they're coming to the end of their contract and offering them a deal. There's no pre-checking to see if you are of any use to them. I even kept getting phoned up by the company that I was actually signed up with, asking if I was nearing the end of my contract.

'No. I signed a new contract with you lot three weeks ago you dippy tart.'

I'm pay and go. No I dont want a contract, thats why Im pay and go. No you cant interest me... look just F*** off.

Thats about the jist of it for me.

[AndrewT]

How do you know she's a tart?

The phrase 'dippy tart' is used to indicate a woman who has displayed signs of not utilising enough of her brain power. Given that she had phoned up a new customer of her company, a company which already has all of my details, including my contract details, to ask if I would be interested in signing up with her company shows that she was too stupid/lazy to check if I was eligible, preferring instead to bother me at work.

[Claw75]

How do you know she's a tart?

The phrase 'dippy tart' is used to indicate a woman who has displayed signs of not utilising enough of her brain power. Given that she had phoned up a new customer of her company, a company which already has all of my details, including my contract details, to ask if I would be interested in signing up with her company shows that she was too stupid/lazy to check if I was eligible, preferring instead to bother me at work.

ouch - that's a bit harsh isn't it?  She probably working for very little money, at risk of losing her job if she doesn't make x calls per day.  If I was in that position I don't think I'd go out of my way to check that the lists that had (presumably) been given to me by better paid colleagues were all non-customers!

[Trace]

How do you know she's a tart?

The phrase 'dippy tart' is used to indicate a woman who has displayed signs of not utilising enough of her brain power. Given that she had phoned up a new customer of her company, a company which already has all of my details, including my contract details, to ask if I would be interested in signing up with her company shows that she was too stupid/lazy to check if I was eligible, preferring instead to bother me at work.

I was being facetious!  lol

[Bongo]

A few years back I had some debt collectors that kept ringing me, they had (been given) the wrong number and were looking for someone called Micheal Owen. Eventually I got quite annoyed that they kept ringing me dispite the fact i had informed them several times I had no idea who they were looking for. So when they next rang and asked me the usual set of questions I told them he'd moved to Madrid. They thanked me and never rang again

The TPS does seem to work quite well, the volume of calls significantly reduced after we registered.

[AndrewT]

How do you know she's a tart?

The phrase 'dippy tart' is used to indicate a woman who has displayed signs of not utilising enough of her brain power. Given that she had phoned up a new customer of her company, a company which already has all of my details, including my contract details, to ask if I would be interested in signing up with her company shows that she was too stupid/lazy to check if I was eligible, preferring instead to bother me at work.

ouch - that's a bit harsh isn't it?  She probably working for very little money, at risk of losing her job if she doesn't make x calls per day.  If I was in that position I don't think I'd go out of my way to check that the lists that had (presumably) been given to me by better paid colleagues were all non-customers!

Her job was cold-calling people purely to pester them into buying something, which is a pretty crappy thing to do. People taking umbrage to this is all part of the deal. She'll have known this when she took the job. If she doesn't like it she can quit.

It may sound harsh but this is an industry which sprung up purely to make money by annoying people - employees deserve all the stick in the world for this.