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I don't care where they are calling from (although it is laughable), it is driving me insane. :rambo:
I have some lines I give them each time. I'm not nasty by nature so if you have any great quips I can use please post now before I have myself committed.
why waste words?
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drunken
06-30-05, 04:38 PM
mate i get totally pissed off with the same thing.
what I do is say "hold the line a minute" then just put the phone down on the side, with the line open.
or just scream really loudly right into the phone
whistling into sounds like a good idea too - will have to invest in one HF :D
I usually go into a Ron Manager, Rowley Birkin QC type thing and they normally put the phone down on me.
why waste words?
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Good plan. Although the next thing may be some crappy phone company doing me for harassment.
This latest one this afternoon was clearly making up a false English sounding name like Chris Smith or something. That plus the fact he called in the first place does not put him in good stead with me.
I believe there have been cases where people have claimed to have had thier ear drums dmaged by people just shouting down the line, cos they all have ear pieces.
So if you do it and get a call from the police just tell then -HF told you to do it :takethat:
Good plan. Although the next thing may be some crappy phone company doing me for harassment.
like you are responsible for a faulty line and feedback loops. ;)
like you are responsible for a faulty line and feedback loops. ;)
Good point, well made. :drink:
dvtimes
06-30-05, 05:00 PM
http://www.not2call.com/
http://www.not2call.com/
Good link! Thanks :)
Thanks Alan - I don't really trust tpsonline 100% but there is some good info on there
Oh Boy!!!
Do women have to come up with all the good stuff in how to get rid of peeps.....
This is what you do...
Ring Ring, Hello, they start going into their speech and you say....
I am really busy right now but if you give me your home number I will be more than happy to call you back.
We don't give our numbers out sir.
Then why the FUCK would you call me if I can't call you!!!!
:mad:
dvtimes
06-30-05, 07:41 PM
What I do is I let them start talking, then I put the phone on its side and let them chat, while I watch tv.
It wasts there time and with luck locks the line on them.
ukwebmasters
06-30-05, 09:15 PM
reverse phone sex
Cardinal_Sin
06-30-05, 09:16 PM
Oh Boy!!!
Do women have to come up with all the good stuff in how to get rid of peeps.....
This is what you do...
Ring Ring, Hello, they start going into their speech and you say....
I am really busy right now but if you give me your home number I will be more than happy to call you back.
We don't give our numbers out sir.
Then why the FUCK would you call me if I can't call you!!!!
:mad:
Exactly as I do -
I had one the other day and I asked her to remove me from their database. She said she could give me a number and I could ring it and blah blah blah.
I said why should I have to spend my time and money to get people to stop ringing me, I said just remove me from your database.
I had it once where a woman phoned me and said something about them be a company that can stop cold calling, I said "what like this one, good bye"
She then phoned back and said "There's no need to be rude" I said you are cold calling me to tell me you can stop cold calling, good bye.
Then another woman phoned and asked why I was being rude to her collegue,, I told her to piss off.
Then a bloke phoned and said "I understand you have been rude to two of my collegues" I asked him if he was having a laugh and I asked him if he was Steve Pank.
I then asked what part of piss off do they not understand, they never phoned back.
FUCKING WANKERS!
I recently ran a similar thread on my forum and one of my members had a cracking reply :ugly: :-
Caller : Mr Nixxo, good afternoon sir, my name is Senga from Bend, Over and Wewillshaftyou Limited, How are you today?
Me: Not so good doll, ma piles huv flared up and it feels like broken gless up ma erse. I had a ruby last night so wi the gypo guts and stinging sphinkter it's no too cumfy here. Tae tap it aff I wiz in the shower when ye phoned and clocked a dodgy rash on ma helmet, kina yella pussy it is, the wife'll go spare and...
Caller: Oh it sounds like you have a lot on your plate, I'll leave you to get on sir (hangs up)
Feckin result :onguard:
Oh needless to say he is Scottish, hence the difficult reading, but good in any language I thought :erk:
dvtimes
06-30-05, 09:54 PM
Bend Over and Wewillshaftyou Limited
You should have told them that there name sucks. I would not buy from a firm called that.
Bend Over and Wewillshaftyou Limited
You should have told them that there name sucks. I would not buy from a firm called that.
Allan, are you seriously yanking my chain or what :p could have been Halifax for any fecker knows :ugly:
Ring Ring, Hello, they start going into their speech and you say....
I am really busy right now but if you give me your home number I will be more than happy to call you back.
We don't give our numbers out sir.
Then why the FUCK would you call me if I can't call you!!!!
:mad:
Thanks Gnat - I'm going to try an amended version of that :)
I always put on a fucking stupid accent and keep puting them on hold, actually its become the highlight of my day
martyman
06-30-05, 10:30 PM
must be a soul destroying job
dvtimes
06-30-05, 10:36 PM
The best one (and I usde it a lot) ir when you get a double glazing firm phones, I chat to them as long as I can.
I say it sounds great.
When they ask when they can come out, I say, its a shame tbat the house is a listed building, and I am not allowed to change it (they do not know its not).
It must gut them, when they think they have a sale.
I don't really trust tpsonline 100%
why not? I registered with them about a year ago after a spate of marketing phonecalls .. doing so cut the amount of calls i got by like 95%..
i am always polite as regardless, they are just doing a job to earn a living... a job that is thankless at times and sadly for some if they fail, they get the sack.
I used to work for a well known uk company ( not double glazing tho..i have my limits lol) and was a telesales manager...I have heard every single reply and some that would knock ur socks off.
.. on a side note..when i was a sales operator..i was the best in the company :p There was almost no one i could not sell to. Sold to trannies, couples shagging, men in the bath and a whole lot more besides. Convertions were to be 1.66, mine were 1.4 :)
domd
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Well I like the principle but I resent having to call and subscribe to a service in order for me to not recieve calls of this nature.
I am old fashioned and backward in that way - I just want the cold callers to go away!
Well I like the principle but I resent having to call and subscribe to a service in order for me to not recieve calls of this nature.
I am old fashioned and backward in that way - I just want the cold callers to go away!
sadly its not actually really cold calling. The reason is that at some point you have not ticked a little box and they consider that your authority to spam you. I know its a pain in the arse and i get the calls too..so i can empathise.
Also some companies that you use every day sell your details onto other companies they feel you would be interested in..as again you didnt tick the little box.
All i would say is that either go through the palaver of getting yourself removed off the list (which i agree you should not be on unless you asked to be spammed) or just be polite but firm. Remember you may have a little laugh..but when that person has 40 calls to people who slam the phone down or are just rude and aggresive, it can be soul destroying. They need to earn just like we do and a great deal of webmasters think nothing of using pop ups and the likes..or other forms of unasked for spam...
domd
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I certainly wasn't asked to be spammed by anyone!!
I also used to work in a job in which I had to call (cold at times) certain businesses. But this was business to business and not a home invasion. I can't stand it!
I certainly wasn't asked to be spammed by anyone!!
you never took part in any games and shit where you fill out name addy phone number?
it's easy to forget to tick the tiny box (no, domd)
i like to leave traps, like writing my name slightly wrong, makes it possible to track down where i forgot to wipe all traces. :D
you never took part in any games and shit where you fill out name addy phone number?
it's easy to forget to tick the tiny box (no, domd)
i like to leave traps, like writing my name slightly wrong, makes it possible to track down where i forgot to wipe all traces. :D
No - I have always avoided giving out my phone number.
Good idea with the slightly wrong name! :)
i like to leave traps, like writing my name slightly wrong, makes it possible to track down where i forgot to wipe all traces. :D
I do the same thing when I remember - most of the junk mail I get is addressed to a name (ever so slight miss-spell) I gave the hsbc bank :ninja:
the biggest culprits are placed like Dixons..u take credit and dont tick the little box to refuse marketing. Or you enter a competition etc.
Also cable tv and other companies sell on your details. These are sold on and called 'qualified leads' so are technically not considered cold calling.
I am not saying its 'right' to do..just that people work to make a living..so i tend to be a little more patient.
domd
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cock-a-leekie
07-01-05, 02:50 AM
Are we talking business-to-business, or business to public?
I think there's a world of difference between ringing Mr.Bloggs at home at 7pm or ringing him at the office.
I have no problem with companies ringing to offer their services, we all need to make a living, I just don't think it's right to pester people in their own homes.
I say:
Don't phone me at home again or I'm gonna send you a love letter, straight from my heart, fucker. You know what a love letter is? It's a bullet, straight from my gun, fucker. Once you get a love letter from me, you're fucked forever. Understand, Fuck? I'll send you straight to hell, fucker!
...and then I hang-up quickly and eat my tamazapan :)
Are we talking business-to-business, or business to public?
I think there's a world of difference between ringing Mr.Bloggs at home at 7pm or ringing him at the office.
I have no problem with companies ringing to offer their services, we all need to make a living, I just don't think it's right to pester people in their own homes.
I do, the business to business ones are even more persistant, at one point I was getting around 5 companies a day wanting me to change my phone line to them. When you asre busy its just not funny.
Ive started now to get these automated messages, from the yanks. They phone me and I go to there automated message, putting the phone down doesnt work, as when you pick it up, its still running, so its blobking up a phone line and anoying beyond belief at the same time
Just a quick thing, this really does work http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/
cock-a-leekie
07-01-05, 02:43 PM
Just a quick thing, this really does work http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/
Yes this does work, also the sales person should ask if it would be ok to call again in the future before they do so.
If done properly and within the law, business-to-business telesales should be no more of a problem than TV, radio or print advertisements. However, since much of this type of work is now out-sourced, they'll always be problems.
I know this because a certain someone I know is a law abiding business telesales marketing manager.
Like I say, we all need to make a living. :)
I just got another damn cold call from distant shores asking me about "My current mobile contract".
I couldn't bring myself to let rip but I felt my blood boiling as it started. It's always the same, I pick up the phone and have to say hello 5 times before they launch into their damn spiel.
I'm going to blow next time.
I just got another damn cold call from distant shores asking me about "My current mobile contract".
I couldn't bring myself to let rip but I felt my blood boiling as it started. It's always the same, I pick up the phone and have to say hello 5 times before they launch into their damn spiel.
I'm going to blow next time.
Thats exactly what annoys me! :mad:
a1ka1ine
07-02-05, 01:06 AM
damn, ive never had a cold call, and ive lived in my own place with landlines/mobiles for about 7 years (since i left home at 17) so i must be lucky :)
cock-a-leekie
07-02-05, 01:40 AM
Thats exactly what annoys me! :mad:
Calm down man.
Here, why don't you mail me your telephone number and I'll drop you a line so we can have a chat. I'll help calm you down a bit my friend.
Oh and by the way, do you need any double glazing? :takethat:
Cock a leekie you have a great avatar. May I ask what it represents though?
cock-a-leekie
07-02-05, 02:35 AM
Cock a leekie you have a great avatar. May I ask what it represents though?
It represents me sir. The clue is in the name.
cock-a-leekie
07-02-05, 02:57 AM
It represents me sir. The clue is in the name.
On second thoughts who wants to play gay guessing games right? :gay:
“Cock-a-leekie” as in this little guy who looks at porn all day and touches his pee pee,
“Cock-a-leekie” as in the medieval Scottish soup, and the avatar is to represent this old dog who is a gourmet chef by trade.
It’s a kind of self-analogy with a double entendre, that isn’t very obvious or cleaver.
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