This Is How To Deal With Cold Calling

[ChillDoubt]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23869462

What a diamond geezer!

Hats off to him.

[yogasun]

Brilliant!!

[pixie373]

Excellent! Good for him.

[naomi24]

Good for him. Hope he gives his friends another number though.

[Old_Geezer]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1271257.html

[youngmafbog]

And we see how the heavy hand of the law is to be used against people doing it too, rather than stop the problem.

I find telling them to f off usually works. I have only had one cold call text this year and no phone calls so word obviously gets round.

[douglas9401]

The slightly sniffy comments from Phone Pay Plus might suggest that they see it as okay for companies to adopt this tactic but members of the public should just accept a barrage of unsolicited nuisance calls.
They may at some point address abuses from friendly sellers of "essential" services.
Good on him.

[mikey4444]

Its too early in the day for me to do any maths but I am not sure that this chaps sums add up. He says that he is now getting 13 calls a month. If he is only making 7p a call, its clear that he is out of pocket.

I have dealt with cold calling in a much simpler way. I have taken the phone off the hook. I have told all my friends that I have done so and supplied them with my Mobile number, so they can contact me if they need to. If I need to use my phone I can, remembering to take it off the hook again afterwards.

Cold calling has now ground to a halt.

[emmie]

good, but what about family and friends calling, you wouldn't want them paying premium rates, or has he solved that problem?

[sp1814]

We moved our phone from the living room down to the dining room. Now cold calls don't bother us, because we can't hear the phone from upstairs, and our mates only ever call us on our mobiles (because it seems that everyone now has 'free minutes' on their call plan).

In fact, the only reason we have a landline is because...actually I'm not sure why we have one. Might have something to do with our broadband contract.

[sp1814]

emmie

He's given them another private number to call.

[BlueToffee]

I like to string them along and play with them, wasting their time as they waste mine!

Furthermore, those annoying surveys, just ask them how much they are paying for you to answer their questions, phone pretty quickly goes dead.

[Old_Geezer]

If you have 2 numbers doesn't that mean you have to pay BT for a second line to be installed. Not sure I can be bothered, to be honest.

[sp1814]

BlueToffee

Pretending your deaf is a brilliant game.

"Sorry mate, can you speak up...I'm a little hard of hearing...I'm sorry...did you say mis-sold insurance or missile insurance? I don't have any missles..."

Etc etc...

[Octavius]

He was just on the radio, he has made around £300 in 3 years which means he has been on the phone to the cold callers for about 71 hours, havig conversations about the weather and XBox! They get charged 10ppm and he makes 7ppm. Only his mum dad and best friend have his other number.

[hc4361]

It only cost him a one off fee of £10, too.

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[hc4361]

You don't need another phone line - when the caller dials the premium number it is diverted to the home number.

[viv38]

Clever man !