Quote from: Bealman on June 21, 2014, 07:00:06 AM

What annoys me are calls to my mobile. How do they get the number?! It even happened to me in the UK recently, with a different SIM card and phone number! 

They just use a Computer to ring sequential numbers or send texts. They only know they have a real number if you answer or reply STOP to the text.

Had a similar one a few years back re replacement windows.
Chap wasn't happy when he turned up to measure my windows only to discover that we'd had our windows replaced.
I just told him that as they'd wasted my time cold calling I thought it only polite to repay the favour. I did say that next time they called anyone it might be a good idea to ask if they actually needed replacement windows as question number 1.

Had a similar one just a couple of weeks ago when a chap 'phoned promising to get my business first paged ranked on google. Which is ironic as I'm on Page 1 anyway !!
However what rankled most was the greeting "Hi Martin !!" - I don't know the gay from Adam, then continuing to call me Mate. Had to point out that this is a most unprofessional way to conduct a business call. He didn't seem at all interested in my offering a "Telephone manner" course. Funny that !!

Quote from: port perran on June 21, 2014, 03:01:00 PM
- I don't know the gay from Adam,

Spooky that you knew what his sexual tendencies were, Martin

A friend of mine allowed a salesman to attend to quote for a conservatory. The salesman arrived but he never knocked on my friend's front door for some strange reason.  My friend even saw the salesman turn up. He was looking out from his 1st floor flat window at the time. He hasn't been in touch since.

My elderly mother wanted a new porch, but didn't want salesmen calling, so I sent off for a brochure from an ad in the Radio Times. This guy turned up and tried to sell me a new porch. I lived on the ground floor of a 3 story block. He didn't see why we couldn't have a porch.

I got a really dodgy mail from a company called Dapol claiming they were developing a Class 33 and 50 sometime this millenium and would I like to preorder...sounded a bit far fetched so I deleted to be safe....

Quote from: newportnobby on June 21, 2014, 03:39:16 PM

Quote from: port perran on June 21, 2014, 03:01:00 PM
- I don't know the gay from Adam,

Spooky that you knew what his sexual tendencies were, Martin

Oh dear. Typing error !!!!!!

On a similar vein last week I got a phone call from a far eastern female who sounded like
Minnie Mouse. She started rambling on about Microsoft ,  I said  I don't want to buy
anything and she said "Me no selling anything ", so I said fine and hung up.

I've mentioned this before, but I got a female ringing up asking if I'd had an accident at work recently. (I was self employed at the time ). She got all excited when I said that I had,  and asked me what I had done about it. When I told her that I just went home and changed my underpants, she hung up.

Quote from: Malc on June 22, 2014, 10:18:55 PM
I've mentioned this before, but I got a female ringing up asking if I'd had an accident at work recently. (I was self employed at the time ). She got all excited when I said that I had,  and asked me what I had done about it. When I told her that I just went home and changed my underpants, she hung up.

 

 
Keep getting those accident ones they you've had a accident in the last three years,then when I say no then they say maybe your partner has,which would be a bit hard,as A) she doesn't drive and B) she lives in Estonia.

Mike

Don't they have accidents in Estonia then?