Friday 13 September 2013

Cold Callers.......

Ohh I'm having a rant...lol All about cold callers, doorstep annoyances whatever you want to call them!!

At 5.30pm yesterday evening someone knocked at my door.....Not just a knock like normal people do....They knocked until I had came from the kitchen all the way to the front door!! Which is a good 30 or 40 seconds!!

It was a man and a woman offering me cavity wall insulation and the loft insulation.....I told them I already had it put in a few months ago.....She said am I sure? Yes I was sure it was their company who did it and they left a right mess in the back yard which I told them.....I shut the door!

Then at about 7.30pm last night there was another loud knock!! Loud enough to wake Ellie my youngest up!! I suppose the good thing was the guy didn't continuously knock like the earlier caller!!

I opened the door and he said 'ohhh I've already been here'....I just shut the door!! Grrrr!!

And while I'm on with the rant!! Every day....I get a phone call asking if I want a new boiler.....A recorded message!! I've tried to stop it!! I press whatever number to speak to someone....Ask them to take me off the list and they do for a couple of days and then it starts again!! I'm on the TPS Telephone Preference Service so there's not much more I can do is there?

Fresh Start Finance!! There's another one.....They keep ringing me....They start with "it's just a quick call from Fresh Start Finance there is nothing to worry about today" I bloody know there is nothing to worry about as there is nothing wrong with my finances!! I have told them repeatedly to stop calling and take me of whatever list they have and they are like Yes madam no problem for a week or two then they start again!!

At least now I have stopped the texts from Payday loans and phone companies trying to sell me contract phones....lol When I get the text I find the website address and the contact email for them and tell them I need them to phone me....I expected them to do that and offer me something but no the texts have just stopped.....Gone from about 20 a day down to about 1 or 2 a day....lol

Rant Over!


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17 comments :

  1. So annoying I don't think anyone would disagree with you on This one! I don't answer my phone unless its named, I'm expecting a call or it's local so less chance of being a cold caller! I never answer my mobile unles it's friends and family because no one else should have my number

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    1. I wish I had the control not to answer the phone..lol I enter a lot of competitions so it may be someone informing me of a win...lol

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  2. I HATE cold callers. They are such a nuisance. We get a lot of them, despite being on the caller preference list etc. So annoying.

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    1. I think the caller preference list is a waste of time now...The cold callers seem not to take any notice :/

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  3. And they come with the same script - oh all your neighbours have donated the price of a jar of coffee a week - aggggh!
    I had a rant on twitter about one company and they have promised that my number is now blocked.
    Why it isn't illegal is beyond me!

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    1. It should be illegal...Some of it verges on harassment!

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  4. I hate it when you make the mistake of opening the door and before you have managed to say anything they have already launched into their spiel!!! ANNOYING :)

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  5. haha I'm totally with you on this one. I had a women knock on the door yesterday just as I put dinner on the table. She wanted me to do some kind of survey, I told her we had just sat down for dinner and her reply was "Well how long will you be because I can come back?" At that point I got cross and told her to go away!

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  6. Grrrr I am so with you on this one.

    Thankfully those signs do seem to work.

    I had a call yesterday at 4.30pm asking me about buying wine. Right as my daughter walked through the door from school. He was most miffed when I asked if he might call me back in on Monday.

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    1. hahaha Ohh Cold callers selling wine and I might be interested but not just as my kids have got in!

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  7. PPI claims has to be bug bear, I'm sure there is not a person in Britain that doesn't know you can now claim back your PPI. I do however not need a daily sometimes hourly reminder that time is running out to cliam! argghh. As for people knocking on your door I personally think that this should be banned, imagine all the old dears who have had to get themselves up to answer the door to find one of this idiots standing there, arggh!

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    1. Ohh I forgot to mention the PPI callers...lol....I just tell them I've never had loans I'm only 16 so stop harassing a child!! hehehe I know it's a fib but it shuts them up and they are quick to get off the phone...hehehe

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  8. This drives me insane!! Its always at 5pm just as we sit down to dinner or 8pm just as I've got the kids to sleep too! L x

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  9. The PPI people wind me up.."your entitled to thousands", obviously not as ive never had credit in my life! ..but feel free to hand it over ;)

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  10. so so SO sosososo annoying. i get it all by email cos i never give out my number and i live in a 3rd floor flat (mu haha!) but still. where are you getting my email?! leave me alone!

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