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[Auto Addict]

Phone rings I answer 'Hello'

Phone 'Am I speaking to Mr ........?'

Me 'Who's calling?'

Phone 'BT, as you are an existing landline customer, we can offer a fantastic deal on upto 20Mb of broadband, who is your existing supplier?'

Me 'Can't get 20Mb round here'

Phone 'How much do you get?'

Me 'Just over a Mb'

Phone 'It says here your area can receive upto 2Mb, who's your supplier, and how much do you pay?'

Me 'If you know I can only receive upto 2Mb, why did you offer me upto 20Mb?'

Phone 'Who's your supplier and how much do you pay?'

Me 'That's my business, if you'd been honest with me at the begining, I might have listened to what you'd got to say, I'm afraid I'm not interested, goodby'

Pratt!

[jonnycool]

The phone rings about 5 times a day at the moment with salespeople offering this and that, thank God for caller display...although as soon as they start talking, I say, 'No thanks' and just put the phone down

The missus however, finds it very hard to be that rude and ends up having to say a polite 'no' about 15 times before they get the message. I have no such qualms 

[Plomien]

register with the telephone preference service sorts the calls out 9/10 times

[scimmy_man]

or put the phone on the side and carry on with what you were doing,
it take up their time.

[waspy]

or put the phone on the side and carry on with what you were doing,
it take up their time.

That's what i do. I put mine in the kitchen & close the door
I don't get many companies ringing me, not sure why

[aaronjb]

The phone rings about 5 times a day at the moment with salespeople offering this and that, thank God for caller display...although as soon as they start talking, I say, 'No thanks' and just put the phone down

The missus however, finds it very hard to be that rude and ends up having to say a polite 'no' about 15 times before they get the message. I have no such qualms 

I don't even do the 'No thanks' ...

I'm going to hell, aren't I.

[Jimbob]

your best bet is to politely ask to be removed from their calling list - they are legally obliged to honour your request.

With TPS, and that statergy we get virtually nothing
(all we do get is sky's 'partners' offering extended warrantys, different partner every time, and existing customer so neither of the above work well.)

[Webby the Bear]

hahaha i do that. go and make a cup of tea while they wait

[david036]

Best is to lead them on for a good 10mins until they finally realise that your wasting their time!!!!!!

[Martin_1962]

I introduced a Sky salesman to the concept of Freeview PVRs which you do not have to pay a monthly fee to use!

[Taxi_Driver]

I registered with TPS years ago....I rarely get cold callers....you will always get a few companies that ignore TPS....but then i dont answer the phone....if its a 'withheld' or a number i dont recognise.....if its important they will leave a message 

[dbug]

I registered with TPS years ago....I rarely get cold callers....you will always get a few companies that ignore TPS....but then i dont answer the phone....if its a 'withheld' or a number i dont recognise.....if its important they will leave a message 

So did I and I also finished with BT years ago.  A while back started getting cold calls from BT trying to woo me back.  When I explained to caller line registered with TPS told doesn't apply to BT.  This happened twice - in both cases logged date & time and got numbers.  Reported BT to TPS - eventually TPS contacted me to report BT had been fined!!

[Plomien]

you could also try a few on here http://interhell.co.uk/forums/topic/222229-how-to-deal-with-telesales-calls/page__p__450232__fromsearch__1&#entry450232

 

[jonnycool]

you could also try a few on here http://interhell.co.uk/forums/topic/222229-how-to-deal-with-telesales-calls/page__p__450232__fromsearch__1&#entry450232

 

Some good tips there mate 

[Dishevelled Den]

you could also try a few on here http://interhell.co.uk/forums/topic/222229-how-to-deal-with-telesales-calls/page__p__450232__fromsearch__1&#entry450232

 

  some amusing ones there.