General Chat

At our previous address we had a number almost identical to a local cash and carry, and we frequently had calls intended for them. One day my wife answered.
"Hallo, have you got any marmalade?" "Hold on" says the wife, "I will have a look.......yes we have some." "Can you save me a case please?", "No," says the wife, "we only have about half a jar" "Is that M...'s C&C?" "No" says she. At which after some muttering, the phone was slammed down.

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Yesterday a friend told me to answer the phone and to say in a very refined voice.

Hello.... Hold the line please.
Then go back immediately and say, thank you for calling you are live on air to (your local phone in radio station) what's your reason for call?

The phone rang yesterday just as we were sitting down for lunch. I carried out the instructions.. These were followed by very profuse apologies from a confused caller.

I can't wait for the phone to ring again. Such fun!

my friend's 90+ Dad just loves cold calls - makes his day

one caller professed he was able to reduce his electricity bills and alleged he was calling from an electricity company - well after much talking Terry asked - "So you'll be needing my credit card details then?" Yes, replied the caller. "Do you have a piece of paper" asked Terry, the guy confirmed he did, so Terry said "Well I suggest you use it to wipe all that bulls**t off your a**e!!! End of call

The other purported to be from a computer form informing Terry there was a problem with his computer - Terry expressed horror and asked what could be done about it - well, said the guy, I can fix it for you - brilliant said Terry.

How do I pay you for this service - well I'll need your credit card details - hang on a moment says Terry, I'll just go and find it - after about twenty minutes with the guy on the other end of the phone saying "Hello" over and over again, 'Terry returned, saying "I've just remembered, I don't have a computer" end of call :-D

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today earlier this morning, I received a email from a mail company advising that a delivery will be made between 12 :53 and 13 :53....not sure if it was a spoof.............it WAS false.........

it arrived at 12:45

Bob

(UK mail)

We are ex-directory and have been for most of our married life wherever we've lived.

However, in the last year we have had two cold calls. I explained to them that as we are ex-directory they ought not to have had our number on any list. Fortunately, both callers were polite and apologised, saying they would remove our number.

I never give out my mobile/cell 'phone number except family and friends

I just had a cold call, ('out of area' number) apparently from 'Access for all', I asked her to repeat the name - and she put the phone down!! :-D

I usually find they aren't bothered if you claim not to be the person they've named. They will just carry on speaking to you.

I once had a right old go at someone who assumed I was my OH!

I've tried the what company question, but I can never understand the answer :-S

For 47 years, I have asked "who, and why" when some unknown person phones and asks for OH

That started in the first year we were over here, when students would phone in the night before an exam to ask for help, or after to find out their mark .............. yep, at midnight, 1 am, etc etc.

4 am in the morning after an exam in the previous afternoon was the worst call

I was cold and calculating to those callers!

"He has office hours from 8 am to 4 pm from Monday to Friday. Contact him there"

If OH wanted a student or a member of the rugby team to call home, he always warned them to ask either for Doc or for him by his Christian name, and warned them of the reaction from me if I heard "Dr xxxxxx".

Only 1 member of a rugby team ever made the mistake in about 10 years ............... a big husky back. He later told me he had never heard anyone's voice change so fast from friendly to cold. I think the message got through to all the rest.

I've continued to answer the phone in the same way even when OH is in the same room .............. and maggie's correct. These cold callers do not like being asked who and why before I will pass the phone over.

They also don't like being told there is no-one of that name living here, and that they should learn how to correctly pronounce people's names

Namelessone, I've started denying I'm me, and demanding to know what company they're representing, failing that, the company they work for, before I will bother MaggieW. They don't like you asking them that!!

I had a nuisance call a couple of weeks ago, and after I had cut it off, about 30 seconds later the phone rang again. WHAT NOW? I shouted. A polite voice asked for me by name, and introduced himself as an officer from the Met Police. Oh dear. He was only checking up on a reference I had given someone for the renewal of his shotgun cert fortunately.

Unfortunately some of the Uk callers try to get around TPS rules by claiming that they are not actually selling anything. :-0

With out computer friends I often tell them I have never bought a computer. Which is true, but they don't need to know I've been with OH when they have and then I've driven them home. Sometimes I'm believed. One kept insisting that that someone in the house was using a computer, so I go into a panic, obviously, claiming there is no one in the house and they need to tell me who it is --- don't usually get any help - I wonder if they think I am lying ;-)

Maggie, I've tried TPS but it's only for a short time and then you have to do it again!

These boiler upgrading calls are supposedly on behalf of the Scottish Government as part of their contribution to reducing global warming. I tried pressing the more info button once, but they wouldn't say who they were or tell me anything except how to get a new gas boiler!!

So now I just put the phone down!

Joy, who or what is/are Mugiebar??

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I suppose you could breath heavily and ask them what underwear they are wearing! :-D :-D

Andysmum, are you on TPS? This is free, and supported by Ofcom.
If you are, you can report them, if they have a number, or if you can get the name of the firm out of them.
Since September, quite a few companies have been fined - some of whom are firms selling equipment to stop cold callers
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Fly, tell them you haven't got a computer. If they insist you have, just inform them you threw it out because you're fed up with their calls :-D

My daughter used to work in a maternity unit. One day, she had to phone for a neonatal specialist, and was waiting for the call back, telling her how long he'd be.
The phone rang - it was a real (as opposed to recorded) PPI cold caller!
She explained, as calmly as she could that they had called an emergency phone in a neo-natal unit, could they remove the number - and the plank didn't believe her......
Then the air turned blue :-|

Most of mine are automated so I can't string them along!!

At the moment they are all about upgrading my boiler and saving more than I spend on gas!! We don't have mains gas. :-S :-S :-S :-S

I get Online Support phoning up to 3 times a day :-S