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  1. overseasTOON

    overseasTOON Active Member

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    Please just **** off.

    All I get is random twats calling me and offering services for the house and when I state this is a business line they simply hang up.

    10 minutes later the ****ing company calls me back.

    I've had the line number blocked by the TPS and the ****wits still call me but will not give the name of the company they are calling from so I can't sue the cum buckets for breaking the law!

    I get about 10 automated calls a day telling me about government backed initiatives to return money back to my wallet.

    Please Lord, just one simple request.

    Smite these ****ers and smite them ****ing hard!!!!!!!
     
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  2. Aldridge_Prior

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    I didn't know it was you, sorry. <sorry>
     
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  3. skalpel

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    String them along for as long as you can and slowly sway the conversation towards scientology and if they have 'heard the truth'. Did that with a mate a few years ago, works especially well if you keep handing them over to different people.
     
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  4. overseasTOON

    overseasTOON Active Member

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    I put one of them on hold and went to a meeting.

    One hour later the parasite was still on the line so I hung up.
     
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    That's class <laugh>
     
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  6. skalpel

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    Haha. You probably broke his heart.
     
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    Thank **** I do inbound calls only at the call centre I work at the minute.
     
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    I make a point of having random conversations with them or see how many diffrent foreign accents I can do in one call.
    I worked my way through half the european languages before I cracked up kaughing and hung up.

    I've also done an irrate Indian to an offshore call centre :D

    If they are going to waste my time I'll waste theirs, hours of entertainment
     
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    Unfortunately I work in a call centre (stop-gap hopefully) and I have to say, whilst your plan was cunning, the caller won't have been able to believe their luck. The contractor only gets paid for the time they are on calls so as soon as you are off a call the boss is always breathing down your neck to start another one, usually that is done automatically by the computer. So I'd have been happy as larry to be put on hold for an hour, I'd milk it for all it was worth, read my book, catch up on the football, eat my fruit.

    Anyway, I've moved to the Weight Watchers account now so no more sales! Huzzah! I just get to talk to jolly fat people all day. I genuinely get calls where people ask me how many calories are in the Filet o'Fish, chips and McFlurry they just had for lunch. The answer? TOO MANY YOU MASSIVE PORKER!!
     
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    Anyway, I've moved to the Weight Watchers account now so no more sales! Huzzah! I just get to talk to jolly fat people all day. I genuinely get calls where people ask me how many calories are in the Filet o'Fish, chips and McFlurry they just had for lunch. The answer? TOO MANY YOU MASSIVE PORKER!!
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    I bet they just love that! <laugh>
     
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    My number is supposed to be ex-directory & withheld and I get them as well, when I ask them how they got the number they always backtrack and quickly hang up.
    I'm sure my credit card company has passed my information on without consent (I read through the contract and opted out of 3rd party companies being able to contact me/have my info passed onto them) as that's the only people it could be who've passed it on as I don't give my landline out except to family.

    I also have this debt collections agency called Credit Resource Solutions ring the phone atm with a text message for a Miss Harehills (I think as the bloody text always ****s the name up), if I don't answer it leaves a voicemail anyway and this is going on about 3 or 4 times a week for the past week and a half now.
    Again how they got my number is anyone's guess, they've never sent a letter out as I tend to vet the old tenants' mail before binning it after being burned in 2nd year in student digs (almost had baliffs come knocking on the door because of previous tenants running up a bill for the gas - as a result we could never get a supply to the house, which is illegal but a different story), so doubt the person even lived here let alone had the same phone number as I had to order a line installed.
     
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  12. Darth Gogledd

    Darth Gogledd Well-Known Member

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    I like Stephen Fry's advice for dealing with them:

    1. When they ring you up, ignore what they say and reply, "Oh, by the way, have I had a chance to tell you about my Lord and Saviour..."

    2. If that doesn't work, start making weird se3xual noises, like hearing their voice is maing you horny...

    They'll never bother you again.
     
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    I love doing anything like this. I was a bit scared to years ago when I was younger but when i finally did it I found it hillarious. I relish the house phone ringing now and I'm sometimes dissapointed when its one of me brothers or me granny or someone.
     
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  14. SirBR

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    I love mocking them, I had one for debt consolidation. Indian chap, so went through all his questions.

    Any loans,
    Any credit cards,
    Any store cards,
    Any doorstep loans??? WTF - Nope none, I don't trust them. Usually gypsies and you can't trust those thieving gypsies!!!!!

    Mortage arreares - nope I don't have a mortage I lied
    Any outstanding debt - nope I'm 37 and have no debt what so ever - I lied again.

    Well it would appear we can't help <laugh>

    Really that is a shame, you have a good day now, bye bye :D
     
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