No one can disagree with that. Winds me up. Screwfix, are top of my hit parade for that one!!!
Get them round to give you a quote, see what they say? Ha!
What's really annoying is when the shoe you a lower price for the thing you just bought.
That has been pretty much, if not entirely, eradicated in this country. First there was a “don’t phone me”-register, and any company cold-calling you if you had put your number in that, could be fined. As that proved to be a huge success, for reasons only marketeers can probably not understand, lawmakers got their act together, and it’s been forbidden by law since 1 July 2021 to cold-call people. The only exceptions are if you have indicated that you don’t mind it; if you’ve been a customer of the company calling you within the last three years; or if you donated to, did volunteer work for, or attended a meeting of a charity that’s calling you. Any other reason for cold-calling you, and you can report them to an agency that can administer fines for the offence. Plus, if somebody does call you, whether allowed or not, all you need to do is tell them you don’t want them to, at which point they’ll again be breaking the law if they continue or try again later.
). Also easy to get rid of by saying, “No, you’re not of <whatever company they claim to be from>, you’re a scammer” and putting down the phone.
We have a service called TPS, (Telephone Preference Service). Register your mobile and land line number with them and cold calling is reduced by about 95%. I say 95% as there are a few companies have very sophisticated software to fool your phone into thinking it's a genuine non business call!! If I suspect it's a cold call that has got by the TPS system then I initially mention I am registered with TPS, that usually terminates the call instantly. If they persist I ask them to email me as if they had my telephone they would have my email address and I would terminate the call.
Hahaha, beat ya to it Dave!! I've had very few issues with TPS.
I used to ask female callers if their children knew they were a liar and a thief. Surprising how many hung up! Now I just hang up.
This is a legitimate feature of all modern phone systems. The reason behind it is so that employees of large companies can, for example, call customers but have the company’s central phone number shown at the other end rather than the one for the direct line to the desk they’re calling from.
That’s another advantage here: all of the scam calls I’ve had over the years have been from a spoofed foreign number. Phone rings, it shows a number with +33 (France), +49 (Germany), or whatever — I don’t know anyone who would phone me from a foreign country, so whenever I see one I can assume right away it’s a scammer until they prove me wrong.
If it’s Jehovah’s lot, I tell them I’m a Mormon. And vicy vercy!!
I did tell a scammer that rang a customer most lunch times I was the Co op embalming service and had he a collection , he became very confused and apparently never rang again .Should use this ploy again I think .
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