GrrrSnarlGnash! Pesky FAILED junk calls!

Some companies just don’t realise that hacking-off people doesn’t help them get business. I’ve received two calls from an 0845 number, both of which failed with the three beeps for a dropped call on my answering them. I checked http://www.unknownphone.com only to find they are numbers used by junk callers.

I wish I could get my hands of n the little *****s behind these calls… They’d wish they’d never annoyed me…

Chill, dude. Just go outside and gatecrash your neighbour’s barbeque.

It’s pelting down, and they’re away on holiday.

Just got two calls from (presumably) the same people. Work phone that’s used when I’m on call-out so can’t be ignored.

Getting royally pissed off now – can someone remind me why we bother paying the idiots at OFCOM to sit on their arses and ignoring stuff that’s really winding people up?

Some of these call centres which both receive and make calls have auto diallers running. When the connection is made,,if there’s a spare operative then the connected call comes through to them, if there’s no one are then the call is dropped.
More efficient that way, and that’s a good thing. Right?

According to the Indy today 3.99% of the UK’s working population is employed in a call centre

It’s really annoying, apparently when the call centre operator gets within 30secs of his/her call finishing, they autodial a stack of numbers, whoever picks up first gets the call, everyone else gets dropped.

More efficient that way, and that’s a good thing. Right?

I know you’re joking but no, no it is not a good thing. It is a very very bad thing. Should be made illegal. As should cold callers who hang up on you when you are not interested…and and. I have generally given up answering the phone unless I know the number.

Is this mobile or land line? If mobile, the app WhosCall is good for blocking these twunts

My unladylike response to any now is foxtrot oscar.

I repeatedly report these to the TPS and the IOC.

My mobile is never answered if it shows up as ‘private number’.

As should cold callers who hang up on you when you are not interested

That one I am struggling with. Do you want them to stay and chat?

I just say no thanks as soon as I can get a word in. No need to be rude to the poor chap on the phone. I wouldn’t want their job and I suspect they aren’t that keen on it.

My mobile is never answered if it shows up as ‘private number’.

That’s a tricky one as several of my clients have this because of their switchboards. It’s a bit annoying.

That’s all very well C G, but withheld numbers in our case include various friends with hidden numbers (in which case answering m/c picks it up) – but also the childrens’ school (!), the local library (!!) and doctors’ surgery..

No need to be rude to the poor chap on the phone. I wouldn’t want their job and I suspect they aren’t that keen on it.

Strongly disagree. If more people were as rude as me then people wouldn’t do these jobs. Simples. 🙂

I made a cold caller cry once, it felt bad and good all at the same time!

That one I am struggling with. Do you want them to stay and chat?

I just say no thanks as soon as I can get a word in. No need to be rude to the poor chap on the phone. I wouldn’t want their job and I suspect they aren’t that keen on it.

and with the same respect when you say no thank you not interested, i expect a sorry for wasting your time, not diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

exactly

No need to be rude to the poor chap on the phone. I wouldn’t want their job and I suspect they aren’t that keen on it.

^^ This – they’re usually just someone young trying to make ends meet in a market that is hardly saturated with opportunity. Never an excuse to be rude to them when all they are doing is trying to make a living doing an unpleasant job. Would you be rude to a binman? A toilet cleaner? Nope. Same logic.

Binmen and toilet cleaners provide a useful service,cold callers provide what exactly?

It’s a mobile call to my ancient Nokia tough phone, so there isn’t the facility to add a blacklist of known numbers. I’m hacked-off because I may be getting an important call today, regarding my father possibly getting admitted to hospital for kidney function tests. Every time the phone rings I’m startled and wondering is this the call with some news?

I just try to sell them double glazing or life insurance when they call they soon hang up and never call back lol

They get targeted for number of calls made quite often.

If they catch me on a bad day the conversation doesn’t last long. Otherwise sounding interested, dragging the call out for a good 20-30 mins then losing interested is good fun also.

I like the idea of trying to sell them stuff I may try that one also.

EDIT: Yes, registering on the TPS cuts down the number of such calls quite dramatically.

Cheers

Danny B

No need to be rude to the poor chap on the phone. I wouldn’t want their job and I suspect they aren’t that keen on it.

No. Bollocks to them. Nine times out of ten it’s a scam of some form, they’re criminals. They’re a swearword filter engaging nuisance and I wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire, they know they’re flaunting the law and they don’t give a toss.

Not all, I grant you. In the US for instance, cold callers are usually legitimate companies IME. But the ones I get are always “hello Mr Jones, my name’s Brian I’m calling from Microsoft / about your debts / on behalf of your phone company / about your recent injury” in a barely intelligible South Asian accent. Jog on.

registering on the TPS cuts down the number of such calls quite dramatically.

It stops legitimate callers quite well. It makes not a jot of difference to these ^^ parasitic bastards. I’ve quoted the TPS at them and they laugh in your face.

Maybe blowing a mountain rescue whistle down the line would wipe the smile off their face?

Incidentally,

Given the details they hold, I’m reasonably sure I know where they’re getting their data from.

If you want to stop these overseas fartknockers, try filling this in and faxing it back.

http://statics.192.com/rel-3.61/downloads/C01.pdf

^^ This – they’re usually just someone young trying to make ends meet in a market that is hardly saturated with opportunity. Never an excuse to be rude to them when all they are doing is trying to make a living doing an unpleasant job. Would you be rude to a binman? A toilet cleaner? Nope. Same logic.

I understand what you’re saying but consider that a job involving making calls that inevitably attract abuse is, actually, a kind of abuse in itself because of this.

I don’t take delight in swearing at these callers but their employers need to be taken to task for this method of working.

A recent call saw me say ‘did I ask you to call me?’. Poor bloke could only reply ‘no’.

And, no, am not rude to anybody else.

My unladylike response to any now is foxtrot oscar. (1)

I repeatedly report these to the TPS and the IOC. (2)

My mobile is never answered if it shows up as ‘private number’. (3)

(1) That was the response that someone trying to sell me a PPE claim got when they called my mobile
(2) I rarely get calls on my mobile, which is registered.
(3) My bank shows this when they call.

Thank you, Cougar, for so eloquently expressing my feelings, and I’m pretty sure those of most on here, about these bottom feeders.
Far better than I could have done it, certainly. 😀

I used to get repeated, persistant calls from st helens conservatories.
I explained, again and again, not interested, because I live in a first floor flat. Until it got too much.
The look on the salesmans face when he turned up on my doorstep was priceless. 😀

Received this today from TPS:

Thank you for your complaint regarding the receipt of an unsolicited direct marketing call.

You may already be aware that the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) does not have the facilities to know which companies are calling you and therefore relies on the complainant to ascertain this information upon the receipt of an unsolicited direct marketing call.

Despite our best efforts, TPS has not been able to ascertain valid contact and/or address details to raise this particular complaint. Please note that even on occasions where a company name and/or telephone number is supplied TPS may still be unable to ascertain valid company details if during the course of our investigation the company name and/or telephone number supplied is found to be fictitious.

Although we have been unable to raise this complaint against the offending company we will make available to the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) details of complaints which TPS were unable to raise against the offending company due to lack of valid contact details.

The ICO are the government body responsible for enforcing the Privacy and Electronic (EC Directive) Communications Regulations 2003. This may enable them to look at trends in complaints being made and where possible identify those organisations who are not complying with the regulations surrounding such calls.

TPS has now closed the investigation into this particular complaint. Please note that this email address is not monitored. If you now have sufficient information and wish for TPS to investigate please re-log your complaint via the TPS website http://www.tpsonline.org.uk .

C/C Hello, can i speak to Mr Project pleae,

ME, Sorry he is on the other line, can i help,

C/C,And who are you sir,

Me,I am the Doctor,

C/C Hello Doctor , can i have your surname please,

Me ,Yes, i am the Doctor,

C/C ,Dr Who,

Me,yes that is correct, (pause)

i am from the planet Galafray, (pause) i am a time lord, i travel in a space time conmtinumn.(pause) I am 10000 million years of age in earth years, so have plenty of time to answer your calls.

Usually the phone then goes dead.

goes like this for me:
LL rings, I answer it & say hello. I can hear the digital whirring and realise that the call is a nuisance one then hang up before anyone speaks.

The call centre is on on bbc3 in a couple of mins, see if you can spot who called you

I used to get repeated, persistant calls from st helens conservatories.
I explained, again and again, not interested, because I live in a first floor flat. Until it got too much.
The look on the salesmans face when he turned up on my doorstep was priceless.

💡 Thank you.

I may be getting an important call today, regarding my father possibly getting admitted to hospital for kidney function tests. Every time the phone rings I’m startled and wondering is this the call with some news?

Hope he’s ok – I have end stage kidney failure, Dialysis 3 times a week. Not fun 🙁

Some goodish news. They want to see him as an out-patient for the time being, and have commissioned some less urgent testing. It seems the antibiotics are working. Though that hasn’t yet resolved his repeated kidney infections or recurring kidney stones.

Thanks for your thoughts.

I get at least 3 calls everyday from ‘Active Energy Direct’. They call themselves different things each time, usually abbreviated versions of their name and I’m afraid I’m at the point of being quite rude to them. I always start off polite but saying I’m not interested. This rarely gets rid of them so after explaining that they are not the first call I’ve had from them that day/week I know what they are offering and could they please make a note to not call me because they ate wasting their time and mine. At this point I usually hang up. Regularly the phone rings immediately which when I answer it I get the same person asking why I hung up when he was trying to explain what they were offering. At this point they are generally told in no uncertain terms what they can do with their services and I hang up. There have been occasions when they will immediately call me again. Bloody hell. Bugger off.
I also get lots of calls trying to sell me advertising space in some bogus publication. I just stop them and ask them to wait while I google their company name. Generally they can’t hang up quickly enough.

I get at least 3 calls everyday from ‘Active Energy Direct’.

Seems they’re on Twitter. They’ve got the same approach to that as they have to your phone calls.

Tweets by AEDCallCentre

The most fun I’ve had with them was shortly after being awarded my PhD:

CC: Hello, is that Mr Zokes?
Me: No, there is no Mr Zokes here
CC: And who am I speaking to then?
Me: Dr Zokes
CC (flustered): Oh, I’m very sorry sir
Me: No, no, I’ve not been knighted, just a Dr
CC: Errr…..

I just put the landline handset by the radio and walk off. Fortunately I never have had any CC or spam on my mobile- yet!

Here’s a thought- I assume that businesses receive CCs as well. What is your employer’s policy with dealing with them. If I can be bothered (see above)I ask them to email me. They never do.

zokes – Member
The most fun I’ve ever had with them was shortly after being awarded my PhD:

CC: Hello, is that Mr Zokes?
Me: No, there is no Mr Zokes here
CC: And who am I speaking to then?
Me: Dr Zokes
CC (flustered): Oh, I’m very sorry sir
Me: No, no, I’ve not been knighted, just a Dr
CC: Errr…..

I know it probably makes alot of peoples days thiking up some clever reply when they get a cold caller ring them up. Why not just ignore the call or hang up straight away and save your brain power for better things? 😉