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« Reply #3615 on: 15:09:31, 21-07-2008 » |
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I can't understand pre-recorded calls of this nature. If some poor wretch in Bangalore phones me up and says his name is Trevor and how am I? I hope I would have some courtesy towards him before putting the phone down.
Pre-recorded messages can just go hang.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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Antheil
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« Reply #3616 on: 15:21:19, 21-07-2008 » |
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I can't understand pre-recorded calls of this nature. If some poor wretch in Bangalore phones me up and says his name is Trevor and how am I? I hope I would have some courtesy towards him before putting the phone down.
Pre-recorded messages can just go hang.
Don B, that has reduced me to a fit of the giggles with you being so well brought up and polite engaging Trevor (Trevor??) from Bangalore in polite conversation. Oh if it were a real person I would have spoken to him. The thought has just crossed my mind that he may have been a Pet Shop Boys fan and just wants to pay my rent! Did a 1471 - no number recorded. |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #3617 on: 15:24:39, 21-07-2008 » |
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Trevor? They're all called Nigel aren't they?
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« Reply #3618 on: 15:32:34, 21-07-2008 » |
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Trevor? They're all called Nigel aren't they?
I recall Mort was fond of Nigel from Mombai. I wonder if she ever conversed with Trevor from Bangalore? She was playing a Hare Krishna cd this morning ............ |
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« Reply #3619 on: 15:33:06, 21-07-2008 » |
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Just hang up and don't even speak. This is in your best interest.
Who knows what these people want from you?
You will surely not be more rude than the previous person they called, and they will have learned not to take it personally.
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Don Basilio
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« Reply #3620 on: 15:36:24, 21-07-2008 » |
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The usual opening gambit is "Can I speak to Mr Basilio?". I reply "Why do you want to speak to him?" They never answer, but continue with their script.
I certainly have put the phone down when they start "Can I speak to Mr or Mrs Basilio?" That is just bad manners on their part.
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« Reply #3621 on: 15:37:33, 21-07-2008 » |
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Oh dear, my father loves talking to cold callers.
He's in the phone book under a misprint. So when someone calls asking for the name printed in the phone book, which happens not to exist, he's already off to a good start. He has lots of other jolly japes. For instance talking away for a while and then just stopping and listening for a few minutes while they say 'hello? hello?'.
On the other hand pre-recorded stuff doesn't seem to have caught on here. (Here this week being Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.)
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« Reply #3622 on: 15:44:40, 21-07-2008 » |
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Just hang up and don't even speak. This is in your best interest.
In the UK it's not, since it is illegal for UK companies to continue to ring you if you tell them not too. I am registered with whatever the name of the service is which stops you getting most of the calls so I get very few. Those that I do get which aren't pre-recorded, I always say "Don't ring me again. Remove me from your files/database/whatever." |
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« Reply #3623 on: 15:46:49, 21-07-2008 » |
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Since signing up for TPS the number of cold calls we get has plummeted. The ones who do get through hang up rapidly when you tell them you're TPS-registered. It's just a few pre-recorded ones that still occasionally slip through (and usually take up huge swathes of time on the answering machine).
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« Reply #3624 on: 15:52:13, 21-07-2008 » |
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£250 a month for food? Cheapskate! John Prescott gets £400. Ah, it might do John Prescott some good if his monthly pie bill had to be limited to £250  |
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« Reply #3625 on: 15:52:40, 21-07-2008 » |
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I get cold callers (double glazing, kitchens, opinion polls) I am always polite and lie through my teeth and say I replaced the kitchen, windows, last year. I don't mind the national opinion polls but the Home Office recently targeted me on crime and disorder questions. Moi? I finally, the last phone call, told them my Mum was serving a stretch in Holloway and they would have to talk to my Social Worker as I was only 12 years old Oh No I didn't! Oh Yes I did! |
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« Reply #3627 on: 15:54:13, 21-07-2008 » |
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I get cold callers (double glazing, kitchens, opinion polls) I am always polite Why? Tell them to bugler off. |
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« Reply #3628 on: 16:20:57, 21-07-2008 » |
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I get cold callers (double glazing, kitchens, opinion polls) I am always polite and lie through my teeth and say I replaced the kitchen, windows, last year. I don't mind the national opinion polls but the Home Office recently targeted me on crime and disorder questions. Moi? I finally, the last phone call, told them my Mum was serving a stretch in Holloway and they would have to talk to my Social Worker as I was only 12 years old Oh No I didn't! Oh Yes I did!You should be signed up with TPS, Anty: the Telephone Preference Service. If you're on their database, firms are not supposed to cold-call you. When they do, you just tell them that you're on TPS, and if their list isn't up-to-date, they'd better put you on it PDQ. Check who they are, tell them you're taking the company's name, and remind them that should anybody call you again, you'll report them to TPS - their company can be liable for a fine of up to £10,000. |
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