Just remember if you sign up for TPS all of the larger call centre businesses will stop calling you, smaller business will still do the olde.. get you from a phonebook or 192 DVD, but you can ask them for the company name... and then tell them not to call again and to remove you from their "system". That way if they call again to you, then they are liable for a big hefty fee (think it's £5k).
But it won't stop Overseas calls, they will still happen.
And since most calls from India etc use Skype to call you, I am surprised VM hasn't offered a small fee to block Skype calls, since the calls are from the usual sources and are easy to detect. (Hence when you get called from Indians there is that small time of nothing happening before you hear something).
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Originally Posted by techguyone
Around our way, we tend to get more cold calling done in person. I lose track of the amount of people offering me windows, doors, drives, solar panels, 'did you know its law now to have x mm of wall insulation - I notice you don't have any' etc etc.
I worked out the very best tactic for this a while ago. I open the door, look at them and mutter 'cannnsaull' in my best east enders accent. They leave immediately.
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I hate people like that, and they are mostly cowboys... trying to scare you into business with them, especially when they get the older people on their own they are very pushy.
Years back at my gran's who was getting frail, answered the door to a roofer, and he was practically trying to get into the house physically... "Let me show you... and we can have a cup of tea with it".. then I peeked around the door into the landing... and he spotted me and made excuses and was nearly off.
I caught him before going and asked him for his ID etc, stopped him from driving off while gran phoned the Police to come around, because he was trying to get access to the house without authority, and he was well not pleased.. did the revving thing like he was going to run me down, didn't move. Thankfully others from neighbouring houses came out and stood there also.
Never knew what happened to him, as in dealing with police when they took him there, if he went to court etc.. no idea.