We could actually do with double glazing upstairs at the front, but during the sales chat, I ALWAYS ask for a local address where I could go and look at their work & talk to the householder. I must sadly record that after no less than five occasions, I have yet to have a second call.
Regards,
Kim Siddorn
Oh, how I love those "To The Occupier" letters - especially those from Virgin Media. I circle the address with a thick black marker, and write "Gone Away - Return To Sender" on it before posting it back.
"MatSav" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@pipex.net...
I've signed up to the MPS and TPS services. Now I have no stupid twits trying to flog me rubbish over the phone and almost no junk mail. You can do it on-line.
Those that still call me generally pretend to be conducting a survey of one sort or other - I normally claim to be the brother or friend and ask them to please hold while I fetch the occupier/home owner etc. I just leave the phone off the hook and hopefully waste their time for 5 minutes or so before they hang up.
Julian.
Both options certainly reduce the amount of you time wasted by so called marketeers. I have also added the 'no calls from undisclosed numbers' option for my landline, this seems to work well in stopping the survey "we are not selling anything" clowns getting through. I am still getting the merkin "you have won a holiday' cretins and Indian call centres offering 'government approved debt solutions'. If I am busy when they call they get a flea in the ear, on other occasions, I lead them up and down and around the garden path for as long as it takes for them to get the message, or until I get tired of playing.
One shower by the name of Pemco decided that the TPS did not apply to them, after their third phone call in as many months and because they would not provide me with a trading address or phone number, I decided to pretend that I was interested and made an appointment for their rep to call. When he arrived I asked if he had a card or brochure, he said that this was only available after he had measured up and that this would be provided once he had come up with the quote. After putting up with the old hard sell if you buy today, show house etc routine he eventually provided me with a written quote which gave me the information I needed to identify who exactly I was dealing with.
At this stage I informed him, that if they did the job for free, and provided a brass band and a troupe of dancing girls for my entertainment while the work was carried out, that I would prefer to see the house go to rack and ruin before ever dealing with Pemco. Amazingly he took it rather well and went away without further ado. About 15 minutes later his manager rang and ranted and raved about me wasting their time under false pretences, legal action was also threatened, I invited him to do just that and made it clear that I was happy to do the same again. Strangely enough it seems that they have since forgotten my telephone number.
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Splendid, top marks Richard - it's just the sort of thing that needs to be done to these twerps.
I'm going to try something similar!
Julian.
Drifting slowly OT - but it was to start with! - I've been dealing with an odd request from a client. After a very well received event "The Living Frontier" up at Hadrian's Wall on the last weekend in May, me & the other re-enactment organisers (it was a multi-period event - were asked to provide the names & postcodes of all our members that attended the show. I said no & quoted the constraints of the Data Protection Act.
He persisted & after the rest of them had said no as well, he came up with the weirdest reason I've ever heard. His company had put on the event (we think it might have cost £200,000) and it had been funded by a regional development agency. One of the boxes that they had ticked was "Skills Development" & the parameter was judged by supplying names & postcodes.
I replied that whilst I could in no way speak for the other groups, as we had performed the Viking Ship Burning ceremony (which was our contribution) at least 25 times before over the last 20 years, I could not see that our skills had been developed, just exercised!
A deathly silence has ensued - 6 days now - & I wonder if he is telling the truth. Certainly, whilst we all did our bits very well, the expected crowd of 5,000 paying visitors materialised as 800 or so on the day.
All very strange ...........
Regards,
Kim Siddorn
What "Living Frontier" event? Didn't hear about that, we live about
20 miles south of the Wall as the crow flies...
Good on you, post codes on their own fine, but not both.
How on earth can "Skills Development" be judged by names and postcodes? Yeah, I know, I shouldn't ask how a quango invents it's criteria.
Maybe 'cause he didn't get the word out there well enough. A lot would depend on the weather, being up on the Wall in the wind/rain/drizzle/fog is not very pleasant.
The weather was very nice all day. We did the ship burning ceremony as a finale.
Regards,
Kim Siddorn
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