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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Taxi_Driver on 17 May 2009, 22:43:05
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First thing tomorrow....im cancelling a DD
I have a DD....that goes to the RSPCA for £10/month....
They phoned me earlier....asking me to increase it ..... now i think thats cheeky behond belief.....made my feelings known to the caller...and im cancelling the DD >:(
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ill await a phone call the phone call too then currently paying a fiver a month!
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First thing tomorrow....im cancelling a DD
I have a DD....that goes to the RSPCA for £10/month....
They phoned me earlier....asking me to increase it ..... now i think thats cheeky behond belief.....made my feelings known to the caller...and im cancelling the DD >:(
I thought their response to the bloke kicking a little dog to death was scandlous. They're not prosecuting because the dog didn't suffer cos he kicked it that hard it died instantly without suffering! >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
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Mrs Gixer works from home. They keep calling her in office hours asking for a donation. She does donate but when she feels like it, NOT when they ask her to. She asked for the calls to stop on call No. 2. We are on call no.7 now. Bloody harassment if you ask me.
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Sounds like they may be getting desperate for money...........
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Mrs Gixer works from home. They keep calling her in office hours asking for a donation. She does donate but when she feels like it, NOT when they ask her to. She asked for the calls to stop on call No. 2. We are on call no.7 now. Bloody harassment if you ask me.
Contact Telephone Preference Service - register your number with them. The calls will stop soon after.
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I would never give anything to them,too many greedy so and so's at the top--as bad as polytishuns!
eddie
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It's common practice. We give to a few charities and often get letters/calls asking for more. Letters in the bin and calls ignored now (good old caller ID).
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That is a shame, I support the RNLI when I can, as I used to use the water an awful lot. (water skiing, diving)
I have also contributed to RSPCA in the past. But to disturb someone with a phone call asking for more money is terrible. >:(
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Mrs Gixer works from home. They keep calling her in office hours asking for a donation. She does donate but when she feels like it, NOT when they ask her to. She asked for the calls to stop on call No. 2. We are on call no.7 now. Bloody harassment if you ask me.
Contact Telephone Preference Service - register your number with them. The calls will stop soon after.
TPS doesn't work that well to be honest, and you soon get tired of constantly reporting companies to TPS, only for them to do bugger all :(.
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i oce doated to the st dunstans for the blind ex forces but now am getting letters each week ! also donated to another charity (about £5) but must have have at least £10 in free gifts back (pens, address labels discount vouchers etc) crazy..... :o
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Mrs Gixer works from home. They keep calling her in office hours asking for a donation. She does donate but when she feels like it, NOT when they ask her to. She asked for the calls to stop on call No. 2. We are on call no.7 now. Bloody harassment if you ask me.
Contact Telephone Preference Service - register your number with them. The calls will stop soon after.
TPS doesn't work that well to be honest, and you soon get tired of constantly reporting companies to TPS, only for them to do bugger all :(.
I know that to work it depends on "callers" updating their database with "barred" numbers but I have found that after about 3 months most calls tend to stop. It also helps when they call to say "why are you calling this number? It is registered with the TPS". That normally gets an apology and no further contact.
I have only ever reported one company - Vodafone - normally the threat is sufficient to get your details removed. :y
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Mrs Gixer works from home. They keep calling her in office hours asking for a donation. She does donate but when she feels like it, NOT when they ask her to. She asked for the calls to stop on call No. 2. We are on call no.7 now. Bloody harassment if you ask me.
Contact Telephone Preference Service - register your number with them. The calls will stop soon after.
TPS doesn't work that well to be honest, and you soon get tired of constantly reporting companies to TPS, only for them to do bugger all :(.
I know that to work it depends on "callers" updating their database with "barred" numbers but I have found that after about 3 months most calls tend to stop. It also helps when they call to say "why are you calling this number? It is registered with the TPS". That normally gets an apology and no further contact.
I have only ever reported one company - Vodafone - normally the threat is sufficient to get your details removed. :y
I found with one of my lines, it initially went down with TPS, but then went back up.
The other landline, never really got calls on it, but registered it anyway, and within about 8 weeks started to get 100s of calls >:(
Most companies claim not to know what TPS is - remember a lot of these calls come from those retards who answer those 'earn £600 per week, work at home' leaflets that always come through the post >:(
Its a volunatry system that I don't think works - quite the opposite, I reckon they actually use the number database that TPS pass them >:(
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had very good results with tps here, after 3-4 months virtually no marketing calls.
recently starting getting some foreign call centres ringing though :( and can't even understand what they are trying to sell!
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Unfortunately most, if not all, large charities of this kind outsource their fundraising to call centres. The people in the call centres don't work for the charities they simply buy the donations database from the charity and then target existing "customers" to increase their payments. The call centre then take a large chunk of commission from the increased payments before paying the cash back to the charity. In this respect I doubt if RSPCA are any different from say Cancer Research for example.
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had very good results with tps here, after 3-4 months virtually no marketing calls.
recently starting getting some foreign call centres ringing though :( and can't even understand what they are trying to sell!
I find being incredibly rude and offensive, whilst it may not cut down the number, is quite satisfying. As is getting them around to measure my kitchen/windows/conservatory in my false address. Esp when they ring me on the day as they can't find me....
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I keep my railway guards whistle by the phone - a good strong blow from it seems to do the trick - ouch!
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I have caller display and anonymous reject, I dont answer 0800, 0845 or international numbers. If they get round this by using an ordinary phone number, it goes in the address book with a tag like 'beggars' and doesn't get answered.
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asmuch as they annoy me, I dont do anything that nasty down the phone....
they are humans afterall, just trying to pay the bills like the rest of us
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asmuch as they annoy me, I dont do anything that nasty down the phone....
they are humans afterall, just trying to pay the bills like the rest of us
And the day they understand I am human, and have repeatedly asked not to be called, registered with TPS, and complained about most of them, then I may consider being nice to these zombies...
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ohh, im not nice....just not nasty
in a call centre they have headsets on, so cant even escape a loud noise quicky.
I just say, no thanks, dont call me again, and remove me from your callist. and hangup
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asmuch as they annoy me, I dont do anything that nasty down the phone....
they are humans afterall, just trying to pay the bills like the rest of us
And the day they understand I am human, and have repeatedly asked not to be called, registered with TPS, and complained about most of them, then I may consider being nice to these zombies...
I'm really surprised Jaime, that with your telecomms background, you haven't sorted them once and for all.
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asmuch as they annoy me, I dont do anything that nasty down the phone....
they are humans afterall, just trying to pay the bills like the rest of us
And the day they understand I am human, and have repeatedly asked not to be called, registered with TPS, and complained about most of them, then I may consider being nice to these zombies...
Point taken - I'll take your number off my database then but only if you are sure! ;D ;D