Cold calling and surveys

..... and a lot of times where there are two tick boxes with similar meanings, you have to tick one box to opt out and untick the other to opt out. It's there to trip you up.

You have my sympathy - It is a growing annoyance. Save yourself some hastle and cut those people off without an explanation, as soon as you know it's that kind of call. They only get away with those  nuisance calls  because we in the UK, by nature, are too polite.

K 

Well  you  may  be  Kennine,  as  befits  your  Northern (!!)  upbringing,  but  I  do  my  very  best  to  educate  the  Cold Callers  in  the  finer  &  more  graphic  parts  of  the  Anglo-Saxon  Dictionary   No  Holds  or  words  Barred,  believe  me !!

B

I get really jarred off with charities cold calling at night.  We had WWF at 8.30 the other night.  Looked at their accounts, last year they turned over 63million and spent 19million on fund raising, I find that obscene.  I select charities I give to carefully. I don't want to contribute to executives/managers outrageous salaries

 As to Telephone Preference Service!! Service? Pah!! Registered with them ages ago, complete rubbish!

   I now have a BT Call Guardian telephone, just £35 including an answerphone. Now, all callers not on my 'friends and trusted business' list have to announce themselves before I accept the call. Needless to say, auto calls and cold callers can't/won't do this. The number of 'blocked' calls started out at six a day, now down to one or two a day. Progress. 

We are with the telephone preference service and it works perfectly, we are also ex directory. At first a few calls did come through but I said very clearly that they should not be calling us and I required their names in order to report them. All the calls soon stopped. Luckily we don't get the automated ones, these are more difficult to report.

We're the same, also not on the public part of the voting register and rarely get calls either.

You are lucky if you do not get automated calls. There is nothing more annoying than picking up the phone and hearing a recording - can't moan at them for a start. 

Also get annoyed by the ones that swear it's not a cold call when you tell them you dont accept unsolicited phone calls

 Look at the Ofcom web site re automated calls, see Ofcom for consumers. Hope this is useful.

I don't really object to surveys and I will usually do them unless they are huge and I just don't have the time. Surveys are important to retailers and other businesses and are quite a different thing from cold calling and annoying phone calls asking you to take add-ons.

My beef about a lot of surveys these days is that the compilers make you do all the work instead of couching the questions in such a ways that they can glean the same information without burdening the consumer with having to write an essay. If I am asked to do a survey and it gets to the point where I am being asked to do all the work and do lots of writing I always give up.   

Unlike RedMick I found the TPS was excellent. I registered with it years ago and after a week or two all the calls stopped. More recently I have had a few calls, not many, but a few, from overseas which I understand the TPS can't stop. All those I know on TPS found it was highly sucessful so I find it odd that it hasn't worked for RedMick.