Annoying phone calls.

Pissed off of Derby, writes:

In the past few weeks I seem to be getting a lot of people phoning me up
trying to sell things, the one that just called asking if I'd suffered
any personal injuries was just one too many though.

My phone number is ex-directory, and as far as I know these peoeple
shouldn't have my number through any legitimate means.

Is there some kind of opt out system, or is it just a case of telling
them to **** off whenever they call?

 

Telephone preference service - although it doesn't work for companies where
you forgot to tick the "don't contact me" box

 

Yes, indeed there is... its the telphone preference agency or somesuch...
wait a sec..

<Fires up google>

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

Register there and have your no of annoying calls drop significantly.

You also get the joy of threatening to sue those that do get through...

And having a really good time doing it

Enjoy.

 

Cool, found their website and added my details, thanks for that.

 

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

 

Bad form, I know, but you can also register your mobile there to stop those
annoying sms spam's as well...

 

Telephone Preference Service/

No, you have to tell them to **** off, *and don't call back*. Make sure to
get the name of the company first though, as they're liable to a lovely big
fine if they contact you again having been asked not to.

 

Ginge wrote

The Telephone Preference Thingy.[1]

And given that you are at the back most of the time you should be paying
much more attention.


[1] When they say they will send you the forms to fill in ask them what
arrangements they make for the 15% of the population who are
functionally illiterate and they will assume you are one and take your
details over the phone.

 

Brilliant - I've just signed up for the whole lot.

Unfortunately they don't have an option to prevent the Inland Revenue or
Customs & Excise from harrassing me (

 

Done it now, and for my mobile too.

Well, this all only started a few weeks ago, so I suspect I found my way
onto someone's phone number list. Attention doesn't enter into it, I
have far better things to use my attention on.

 

Ginge () wrote:
: In article <>, simonk says...
: > : > > Is there some kind of opt out system, or is it just a case of telling
: > > them to **** off whenever they call?
: > Telephone preference service - although it doesn't work for companies where
: > you forgot to tick the "don't contact me" box

: Cool, found their website and added my details, thanks for that.

And while you're at it do this one too; www.mpsonline.org.uk

Blair.
'97 CBR600

 

Ginge wrote

Don't expect results immediately. The list of excluded numbers takes
time to circulate round to the spammers and there will always remain a
few who think rules don't apply to their business ventures. Zenith
Windows springs to mind as an example of this.

 

Telephone Preference Service, as approved by Champ. We used to get
_loads_ of calls, causing me to rush in and grab the phone, only to
hear the delayed-action silence then click as the auto-dialler shunted
me over to the person making the call. Signed up online with TPS, had
a confirmatory letter the next day and virtually no calls since. 95%
effective, I reckon - and free, so fabby VFM.

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

HTH

 

Ginge wrote

 

In the space between the first call, and 2 minutes ago I got another
one, this time from the derby evening telegraph, asking me if I wanted
to take out a subscription.

"Do you ever write any articles on unsolicited phone calls?" I asked.

"No."

"That's a shame, if you did I might have bought that copy to find out
how to stop people ringing me up, trying to sell things. I'm not
interested in the subscription. Goodbye."

Well, it's unlikely they'd have known I'd registered in the last few
minutes, so I had to be fairly polite. Plus she sounded quite
attractive.

 

I find that saying "Tell me about the clothes you are wearing" is quite
effective in making them **** off.

 

Ginge says...

There was a girl who worked in the postgrad library at my last place. As
we were on separate sites I often phoned her and asked to send me books
and journal articles. I thought she sounded *very* fit.

So one day, as I was passing, I thought I'd drop in to pick up a few
journals. I couldn't believe my eyes; there was this vision of
loveliness sitting behind the desk. Then she directed me to the bastard
offspring of Jabba the Hut and Chewbacca.

The phone calls were never the same after that.

 

I was thinking of a few of these the other day ...

"Is this call being recorded? If so, and it was released on CD, would you
own the copyright to would I?"

"Why is it that God always waits until you're out of bullets and the shops
are shut to talk to you?"

"When you were at school did you dream you'd be spending your life this
way?"

"What should I have for tea?"

"I'm too tight to pay for one of those dating agency things, so would it be
OK if I just chatted you up instead?"

etc., etc.


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