Cold Callers - New Legislation

[bennyblue]

worked in and ran call centres for many years, some bad apples out there yeah but register with the <a class="postlink" href="http://www.tpsonline.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">www.tpsonline.org</a> easily stops the calls

 

[denislawsbackheel]

rubbish
It only controls those in the UK

even so I got some twat calling me tonight about double glazing.
Utter shit.

 

[Balti]

make them divulge and verify their own personal numbers before they get a licence so we can plague the fuckers back in return

 

[Barcon]

I get calls every single day, two or three times from some twats in India trying to sell us air duct cleaning. No matter how nice or how rude you are it doesn't make a single bit of difference. I just tell them to go fuck themselves and hang up now. The best ones are the ones that say, can I please speak to the owner of the house? Yeah, as soon as you start paying the phone bill you fucking twat. Or, is this Mr Barcon? Non of your fucking business you nosey fucking twat.

 

[stony]

It's not enough. They should ban all cold calls and junk mail too.

 

[bluethrunthru]

It's not enough. They should ban all cold calls and junk mail too.

Oh if only. I no longer have a land line because of these calls - it was either that or be driven fucking mad - still I am sure some MP's get a directorship off these companies and parties get donations so it will have a tiny effect

 

[sir baconface]

cold callers are utter scumbags. Foxy you have clearly not suffered the barrage of cold calls that many people get all the time or you are in the business yourself. It should be a criminal offence to cold call a private householder on any business matter. These trespassing morons are a cancer. If I want to know about a business I'll approach them, until they can they just fu ck off. We don't have the time to be continually telling these cu nts we don't want their shite.

This proposed legislation will be total ineffective however as the twats are based abroad largely to get round UK law.

Trespassing is exactly what it is. They should be dry-bummed. Also agree it will be difficult to stop.

Same goes for e-mails from people who change g-mail address on every occasion. I don't know how to stop these and am not even sure it's possible.

 

[Ricster]

Will this also apply to the vermin chuggers in town?

Not often do I tell complete strangers to fuck off, though the beardy student wanker last week telling me to "ooooh, no problem, have a nice day, darling" at my usual firm, sturdy "no thanks" was an exception...

Must have made you feel really awesome that.

 

[noblelord]

I received one yesterday. Conversation:

Cold caller: " I understand that you had a minor motoring accident in the past three years" ( or words to that effect)

Me: "Does your mother know what you do for a living?"

CC: "Fuck off"

End of call.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Every Charity I've cancelled has since rang me to encourage a new donation.[/quote]
Sounds like Sky !!