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 Sep 19 2009, 05:43 PM
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Advanced Member  Group: Members Posts: 7,847 Joined: 23-May 09 From: Newbury Member No.: 98  |
That was a great find Strafin!
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Sep 19 2009, 09:51 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 3,933 Joined: 14-May 09 From: Newbury Member No.: 55 |
Someone sent it to me when I was a telemarketer!
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Sep 19 2009, 09:56 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 6,085 Joined: 13-May 09 From: Newbury, Berkshire. Member No.: 33 |
QUOTE (Strafin @ Sep 19 2009, 10:51 PM)  Someone sent it to me when I was a telemarketer! My daughter did that a few years ago and found it repetitive and left. |
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Sep 20 2009, 03:20 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 948 Joined: 11-September 09 From: Thames Valley Member No.: 337 |
TPS like it's sister company the DPS (which covers mailings) is a bit toothless; it's funded by the Marketing Industry, and can't cover calls from overseas numbers, even Ireland.
Also some telesales companies say when challenged, or we're not selling, we're carrying out a survey, which gets round the Regs. My phone has a "Hold" facility so you can talk to someone in the house whilst keeping caller on hold; this has benefit of playing caller dreadful electronic music; I leave them to it, and hang up a few minutes later! 
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Sep 27 2009, 05:10 PM
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Had one of these callers 'just doing a survey' today, what part of 'Sorry I haven't got time to answer your questions today' don't they understand.
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Sep 29 2009, 08:06 AM
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QUOTE (GMR @ Sep 17 2009, 10:05 PM) That is correct. They call a couple of numbers at once and the first one to answer gets preference and others are left hanging. Not far off, but it doesn't quite work like that. And the regulator (OFCOM) places an absolute ceiling of 3% in any 24 hour period for 'silent' calls. |
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