Nuisance Phone Calls

• Ross Miller

  • Location: London Road, Dover
  • Registered: 17 Sep 2008
  • Posts: 3,709
  3 January 2010     17:0136248
  #1      
  My partner has been getting calls from 01313 012940 between 3 & 5 times a day for the past two weeks, I have looked the number up and it is IPSOS-MORI. To say this is a nuisance is an understatement.
  
  Sadly they are exempt from the TPS as they are not selling anything.
  
  I have written to them complaining about the nuisance and asking that the unwanted calls stop - lets see what happens. I have also signed a petition here - http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/phone-nuisances/ and would have complained to the ICO but their website is down.
  
  If any of you receive calls from this mod I recommend you also sign the petition etc.
  "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
  
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• Bern

  • Location: Dover
  3 January 2010     17:2136250
  #2      
  Done!
• Guest 657

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 3,037
  3 January 2010     19:4136265
  #3      
  I had several calls per day from Mori last November, after I politely told them I wasn't interested and they continued, I used to put the phone down and leave them talking to themselves. Funnily enough they stopped. I do the same with any persistent cold callers that manage to sneak through!
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• Terry Nunn

  • Location: London Road, Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 4,321
  3 January 2010     19:5636266
  #4      
  I've taken to saying that I charge £25 plus vat for surveys. It seems to work. However , I will sign the petition.
  
  Terry
  Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
• Ross Miller

  • Location: London Road, Dover
  • Registered: 17 Sep 2008
  • Posts: 3,709
  3 January 2010     20:3536267
  #5      
  Thanks guys
  "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
  
  "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
  While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
• Guest 686

  • Registered: 5 May 2009
  • Posts: 556
  4 January 2010     15:0736303
  #6      
  Terry: I'll have to try that solution.
  
  My usual response to cold calls like this are along the lines of "Did I invite you to call me? No? Then [unprintable] off!" and hang up. I don't get many repeat calls.
  Phil West
  If at first you don't succeed, use a BIGGER hammer!!
• Guest 693

  • Registered: 12 Nov 2009
  • Posts: 1,266
  4 January 2010     19:1836311
  #7      
  Done it Ross.
  
  I got a spate of persistent nuisance calls from India in November that got me aggravated beyond reason to the extent where I actually rang the TPS and BT. Result: nil. Apparently there's nothing the TPS or BT can do about sales calls from overseas numbers. Now, if I see the number come up as international, I just don't answer it.
  True friends stab you in the front.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  4 January 2010     20:3036312
  #8      
  andy
  
  i think that if you get BT to stop anonymous(number withheld) calls this will stop the international ones too.
  
  used to cost under a quid a week, worth every penny.