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nffc · 12-01-2005, 20:37

Probably genuine, your name's probably got on some survey list or something.

Just say you want to be removed from the survey list or something- ask about the Market Research Society as well- that's their kinda official body.

Market Research is not sales so it's not governed by the TPS, so that won't do any good. Most of it is either a list of numbers that are dialled, normally supplied by some company or organisation- and sometimes the call operatives don't know where the numbers have come from.

Your best bet is to try and acquire (from the researcher) the phone number for their head office- if it is genuine they should have no problem with that and then you can escalate if you want to.

But surely saying you're ineligible then they should remove you from the survey list?

[I've worked in call centres!]

12-01-2005, 20:37	#3
nffc cf.mega poster Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: chavvy Nottingham Age: 41 Services: Freeview, Sky+, 100 Mb/s VM BB, mega i7 PC, iPhone 13, Macbook Air Posts: 7,447	Re: strange phone calls Probably genuine, your name's probably got on some survey list or something. Just say you want to be removed from the survey list or something- ask about the Market Research Society as well- that's their kinda official body. Market Research is not sales so it's not governed by the TPS, so that won't do any good. Most of it is either a list of numbers that are dialled, normally supplied by some company or organisation- and sometimes the call operatives don't know where the numbers have come from. Your best bet is to try and acquire (from the researcher) the phone number for their head office- if it is genuine they should have no problem with that and then you can escalate if you want to. But surely saying you're ineligible then they should remove you from the survey list? [I've worked in call centres!] __________________