Brendan said:TalkTalk phoned me despite the fact that I have told eircom that I don't want cold calls. They said that it can take 6 months for their databases to be updated.
I think you should complain them to ComReg.
Brendan
For a more peaceful home life you could always try a combination of the following: disconnect your door bell (people who know you will knock), also maybe a small sign bearing the legend 'Callers by appointment only', a sticker on the letter box saying 'Addressed post only please', if you have a gate/side gate a 'Beware of dog' sign, and change your phone number and go ex-directory.NOAH said:What can be done about people ringing your door bell and then going straight into a spiel as if you are throwing your money away??
Yes - but if you have opted out of receiving such calls they are supposed to respect this. See [broken link removed] and [broken link removed].brodiebabe said:I think a lot of cold call companies generate their numbers so they may still call you even if you are not listed in the directory.
Audrey said:Also, and more infuriating even than the call, is the fact that the caller is almost always a non-national with VERY bad English, so I have to ask him/her TWICE to repeat what he/she is saying before I realise that I don't want to talk to him/her !!
But could you be bothered? Really? Also, I agree with Ninsaga - there is an auto dialer at work. There's always a gap between the time I answer the phone and the time the caller actually starts the broken-English appeal!! (and then of course a gap between the time he starts to speak and the time I realise he's trying to sell me something!)DrMoriarty said:Here's a handy script!
lolDrMoriarty said:Here's a handy script, if you ever get a 'real person'..!
But wouldn't that be rude? Better just to hang up. As mentioned before we tend not to answer from numbers that we don't recognise. If we get a few false positives in terms of genuine calls from unrecognised numbers then it's not the end of the world as people will usually catch us on the mobile, email etc.bearishbull said:i cant be rude to people so each time it took me a few minutes to get off the line
from now on i am gonna start pressing the keypad buttons randomly bang the phone off the table and hang up!
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