The angry thread

Geoff · September 10, 2015, 12:11:46 PM

Well they have started, Pension phone calls from private companies wanting to cash in my private pension, well I can tell you what I told them, I am taking my pension as it is supposed to be, please go away and do not phone back.

Who do they think they are taking a chunk out of other peoples hard earned money they can sod off.

sorry government your not getting extra taxes out of me at the present time bog off.

Bealman · September 10, 2015, 12:20:41 PM

Eek! But typical.

MikeDunn · September 10, 2015, 12:52:01 PM

Quote from: Geoff on September 10, 2015, 12:11:46 PM
well I can tell you what I told them, [...] please go away and do not phone back. [...] they can sod off.

And that has the effect of ... putting you on the list to be called again tomorrow, or have the details sold on as a 'live' number ...

If your phone has answering facilities - use it to screen callers (amazing how many hand up when they hear the answering machine - and the best bit is they've already been hit with the charge

); and if it has blocking facilities, block the buggers - the system basically ID's their number as a blocked one, and then picks up & hangs up - again hitting them with the charge

Sadly, you can't do this to withheld or international numbers, so that has to be the screening approach ... The only way you know this has happened is if you have an old-style analogue phone connected somewhere; the bell will tinkle for a fraction of a second. Otherwise silence is bliss

After all - if the caller from an unknown number really needs to contact you - they'll leave a message

And if (while screening) you decide to speak with them, you can

Malc · September 10, 2015, 07:05:35 PM

I bought a call blocker off Amazon for about £30. It's the best £30 I've ever spent. It has hundreds of spam numbers built in and you can add extra ones by hitting the big red button during the call. Silence is bliss.

Geoff · September 10, 2015, 07:19:59 PM

Quote from: Malc on September 10, 2015, 07:05:35 PM
I bought a call blocker off Amazon for about £30. It's the best £30 I've ever spent. It has hundreds of spam numbers built in and you can add extra ones by hitting the big red button during the call. Silence is bliss.

I do not have a problem with the house phone we never give that number out, I started getting dodgy calls when I changed my mobile provider from EE to BT.

MikeDunn · September 10, 2015, 08:07:34 PM

Quote from: Geoff on September 10, 2015, 07:19:59 PM
I do not have a problem with the house phone we never give that number out

Makes no difference - there are people who spam numbers not known to be used, and sell on those that answer ...

QuoteI started getting dodgy calls when I changed my mobile provider from EE to BT.

If a smartphone, you can get blocker apps if the phone (or provider) doesn't have that functionality built-in.

Geoff · September 10, 2015, 08:18:49 PM

Quote from: MikeDunn on September 10, 2015, 08:07:34 PM
Quote from: Geoff on September 10, 2015, 07:19:59 PM
I do not have a problem with the house phone we never give that number out
Makes no difference - there are people who spam numbers not known to be used, and sell on those that answer ...

QuoteI started getting dodgy calls when I changed my mobile provider from EE to BT.
If a smartphone, you can get blocker apps if the phone (or provider) doesn't have that functionality built-in.

Hi Mike I think I am in luck I have a LG mobile and it lets you block callers so that number is now blocked.

Newportnobby · September 10, 2015, 08:58:39 PM

Speaking of BT, 2 years ago I got their telephone directory through the door and...surprise, surprise...my number was listed. I rang them up and fired a rocket up their

as I'm supposedly ex directory. They couldn't think of an excuse but stated I would be withdrawn from said directory before the next one came out.
Yeah - you're ahead of me. Got the latest version this week and I'm still in the

thing.
I took early retirement in part to avoid officialdom that doesn't listen but still suffer from it

Malc · September 10, 2015, 10:37:50 PM

We are ex directory and am on the phone preference service, but we still got spam calls from these automated callers. The blocker was a god send.

jonclox · September 13, 2015, 10:35:08 AM

Toms dad has just emailed me saying that for a few nights (?) he is going to need his bed back ready to use. The beds under a great pile of storred

stock and has junk piled in front of it + of course its now the railway room and he works nights so chaos and bedlam ensues for an indefinite period

jonclox · September 13, 2015, 02:47:27 PM

So now the layouts buried under piles of stuff and interloper now installed in bed and snoring his head off.
Seems that he got uptight with something his partner had dun so she smashed the telly

Now this morning she is demanding he go and but a new one for her and the kids

steve836 · September 13, 2015, 02:55:44 PM

I should tell him that he's a grown up and should go home and sort it out

Newportnobby · September 13, 2015, 03:00:44 PM

Bad enough when you have your own 'domestics' without getting caught up in others.
Strikes me he has run away from the problem instead of dealing with it himself

Sorry, Jon, but I'd have got short shrift from my parents and been told 'you made your bed now lie in it'.
Instead you've given him a bed to lie in.

REGP · September 13, 2015, 04:06:34 PM

Sorry Jon but got to agree with Nobby, by all means help them out on occasions but they have to sort out that type of problem themselves not run away.

Ray

jonclox · September 13, 2015, 04:41:51 PM

Agreed. Giving him a bed is one thing but beyond that he/she are on their own. Its the effect on the grandkids that worry us
He has gone home now (but left his kit here) to try and sort thing out and comfort (?) the kids.