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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: tizaala on July 03, 2012, 02:40:51 pm

Title: Mis-sold insurance calls
Post by: tizaala on July 03, 2012, 02:40:51 pm

You know the ones " This is an important call etc ",we`ve been getting them on a daily basis for weeks , normally we just hang up, but today I let the automated message play out hoping to get the opportunity to hurl abuse and profanities at a real person , but instead it gave me a menu that allowed me to get deleted from the dialing list....Yes ! .. 9 is the magic number , on this particular one anyway.(http://www.arabianlines.com/forum1/images/banghead_125.gif) ( This number may be different on other nuisance calls )

Title: Re: Mis-sold insurance calls
Post by: doganjo on July 03, 2012, 02:45:28 pm

Must listen next time then! ::)

Title: Re: Mis-sold insurance calls
Post by: Berkshire Boy on July 03, 2012, 03:59:01 pm

Quote from: doganjo on July 03, 2012, 02:45:28 pm

Must listen next time then! ::)

Me as well they drive me mad. >:(

Title: Re: Mis-sold insurance calls
Post by: robert waddell on July 03, 2012, 04:07:22 pm

i just love them  and the ones selling wind turbines     get a rake of fornication's into them especially after 7 at night     they have not got a leg to stand on  :farmer:

Title: Re: Mis-sold insurance calls
Post by: omnipeasant on July 03, 2012, 04:30:24 pm

Brilliant must listen then next time.

Title: Re: Mis-sold insurance calls
Post by: Brucklay on July 03, 2012, 05:43:08 pm

Pressed '9' several times and yet they keep calling !!

Title: Re: Mis-sold insurance calls
Post by: luckylady on July 03, 2012, 05:46:39 pm

Quote from: Brucklay on July 03, 2012, 05:43:08 pm

Pressed '9' several times and yet they keep calling !!

Me too!  >:(

Title: Re: Mis-sold insurance calls
Post by: robert waddell on July 03, 2012, 08:06:31 pm

dont get mad just get even ;) :farmer:

Title: Re: Mis-sold insurance calls
Post by: Beewyched on July 03, 2012, 08:09:47 pm

Just be careful of the ones that start ringing after you answer them - you'll get charged peak rate for calling something you didn't want/need/have any interest in  >:(

Title: Re: Mis-sold insurance calls
Post by: robert waddell on July 03, 2012, 08:16:16 pm

after Lillian or myself are finished with them there lugs are warm :farmer: or ringing ;) :farmer:

Title: Re: Mis-sold insurance calls
Post by: Lesley Silvester on July 03, 2012, 10:55:35 pm

We get frequent ones from a business who is desperately trying to contact us to offer us cavity wall insulation and loft insulation before the government stop the grants.  Where do they get their info from?  We had it done six years ago.

Title: Re: Mis-sold insurance calls
Post by: Beewyched on July 03, 2012, 11:22:32 pm

Personally, I'm fed-up of the texts saying I've got £3,500 damages for an accident I had at work - chance would be a fine thing - a job I mean, not the accident.  Maybe I should ask them where I'm working so they can get a salary for me  ;D

Title: Re: Mis-sold insurance calls
Post by: Ina on July 04, 2012, 12:24:25 pm

Quote from: Beewyched on July 03, 2012, 11:22:32 pm

Personally, I'm fed-up of the texts saying I've got £3,500 damages for an accident I had at work - chance would be a fine thing - a job I mean, not the accident.  Maybe I should ask them where I'm working so they can get a salary for me  ;D

You definitely should. I once asked an estate agent who told me they'd sent on the requested information to my husband for the name and whereabouts of said husband - since as far as I was aware I'd been single all my life! No reply to that one, of course. (I was also peeved off since they implied that I, as a woman,  was obviously not able to understand information related to property. But that's a different issue...)

Must say, I rarely get nuisance calls these days, since I'm registered under this preference calls scheme or whatever it's called. The only nuisance calls I get are debt collectors trying to contact the guy who lived here before me - 3.5 years after I moved in. I suspect he still hands out his old phone number. At least 4 out of 5 calls I get are from those kind of companies. (OK, I admit, I get very few calls myself.)