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Offline bewva

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Re: Nuisance calls
« Reply #10 on: November 07, 2013, 21:22:54 PM »
Ann has warned him that he may have all and sundry now ringing him trying to flog him all sorts of tat.



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Re: Nuisance calls
« Reply #11 on: November 07, 2013, 21:30:27 PM »

"£79.99 per year for the first 3 years then free from then on in".

Their FAQ says £79.99 for the first year only then free - so that's a bit of a silver lining perhaps.

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Re: Nuisance calls
« Reply #12 on: November 07, 2013, 23:14:40 PM »
Report it to these guys. It's a well tactic often using TPS to make the sale. Should be outlawed!

http://bramcotetoday.org.uk/2013/10/16/telephone-preference-service-scam/

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Re: Nuisance calls
« Reply #13 on: November 07, 2013, 23:22:14 PM »
Nice one Stoop, good info.

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Re: Nuisance calls
« Reply #14 on: November 07, 2013, 23:48:37 PM »
He told me it was £80 /year, shows how confused he was/is

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Re: Nuisance calls
« Reply #15 on: November 08, 2013, 16:52:43 PM »
No wonder people get confused! These rogues conveniently have the intials TPS which makes you think they are part of the Telephone Preference Service. To be fair they do offer a cancellation if you get it in writing to them within 7 days of receiving your pack but then they take off a massive admin fee anyway.

Just a thought but if anyone has an old relative living in council accomodation the best way to get shut of these people when they call is for the tenant to simply say what my wife's 87 year old uncle says - "ring the council it's not my house" He then says thankyou and hangs up. It seems to work a treat for him.

In fact - thinking on that would work for anyone - just say you don't own the house, thankyou and hang up. Chances are they won't ring back as it's easier to move onto the next target.


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Re: Nuisance calls
« Reply #16 on: November 10, 2013, 08:41:53 AM »
Last piece of advice from Stoop is a good one. My lad as a student, worked in a call centre. Standing instruction as a response to "Sorry it's a rented property" was hang up without delay.

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Re: Nuisance calls
« Reply #17 on: March 22, 2014, 22:40:16 PM »
To update this topic. We finally got the money refunded this week off these lying scheming gits.
Mrs B has phoned them over 20 times. The last 15 or so times promised that the refund would be done that day. All lies.
We got back on to the Nat West who provide his master card to get them to refund it. They also dont know their arse from their elbow and were of little use.
Persistance paid off and money was refunded by the company last week.

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Re: Nuisance calls
« Reply #18 on: March 23, 2014, 00:10:09 AM »
On this subject I got a set of phones from BT. On them you can block international calls and block individual numbers too.
Mine is set to only ring if it's a number in the phone book stored on it.

Absolutely fantastic! Well worth the money.

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Re: Nuisance calls
« Reply #19 on: March 23, 2014, 00:21:59 AM »
I have a call blocker on our Panasonic home phone too, adding phone numbers (mainly the ones that ring and when you answer nobody speaks) to it has dramatically cut down the calls we get. Also on iPhone 5 you can block any caller once they phone the first time.




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