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blowin · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:04 pm Post subject: Rant -- telesales cold calls

The ones which always come just when you have come inside feeling cold , wet and knackered . Or just sat down to supper ( what time is that in the Irish Translations thread ? Laughing

) .
A local radio announcement gave a phone nbr to have them stopped .
After what seemed like an endless recorded message telling me to go to a different place if I was calling about something else I finally got thru' to a real person . He then told me I must phone my telephone service provider ( who-ever it is that sends me the bills ) .
Quite a few other people were not very happy about this either , apparently .

But at least this info was only charged at lo-call rate .
Fer fecks sake ! Twisted Evil

Kira · Joined: 02 Jan 2007 Posts: 27 Location: Belfast

Next time they ring, ask for the name of the company (not the "on behalf of" bit) and ask to be put on the do not call list.

I did a stint in telemarketing. It was the most soul destroying job I've ever done. I'd rather live in a cardboard box than go back to it.

(Dinner is the main meal of the day, so you could have brekkie-lunch-dinner or brekkie-dinner-tea. Or second dinner, if you're a hobbit Smile

)

admin · Site Admin Joined: 13 Dec 2006 Posts: 227

It is usually Eircom trying to sell me some new gizmo and/or asking why I switched to a different provider .
They never seem to take me up on my request for them to just give me the full 58.6 Kb/sec I already pay for ( and only get 1/2 , if I am lucky ) .
I might feel more charitable if they even bothered to check their roll-out plans for broadband ( Laughing

) before trying to sell it to me for the Nth time .
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we need more people to say something .

keithrawlins · Joined: 18 Feb 2007 Posts: 152 Location: banbridge

i just ask them to hold while i answer the door. then go and have a cup of tea, they never seem to be there when i come bake to the phone.

chook · Joined: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 305 Location: North Clare

We haven't had any more cold calls for a year or so, ever since we phoned eircom to get on the opt-out list. It had been such a nuisance (not eircom calling but other TC providers). All over now.
See
http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/PR121206.pdf

Calli · Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 34 Location: Galway

Oh dear - I feel a confession coming on.
You know the whole list of security questions they ask, well the last provider had the answers:

Yellow - how old are you?
Frog - where were you born?
Hysteria - your pet?

Rolling Eyes