And by that i mean:

Landline rings....

I pick it up....

I'm greeted with silence.....

Then theres a click and your connected to a retard trying to sell you shit at all times of the day and night

Is there anyway i can stop this? I'm sure i recall a website or a company that you could register your phone number with and the calls stopped.

Has anyone got any info or maybe you've had to do this yourself?

CheeRs

 

Its called the Telephone Preference Service (TPS). Google it and see what you get, I had to join it with my old number, you phone a freefone no. and leave a message on a machine telling it your number and address. After 28 days, Hey Presto! You can eat your dinner in peace!

 

http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/

 

Just been to register mine and it said it was already listed?

I get these calls all the time and I tell them I am Telephone Preference (They shit themselves and hang up) not knowing that I already was?

So how are they still getting my number?

 

Does my head in they do, when they ask for me, I say "i will just go get him" then chuck the phone in the other room for 20mins.. there still there sometimes too then hang up!

 

Done, cheers lads

Lets see what happens

 

i used to do that job and im not a retard

some companies if they are phoning straight from the phone book won't know if your are TPS or not.

all the big companies send their data to be checked to see if TPS registered before phoning but then what if you register for TPS before they get round to phoning you....

it won't stop all of them for ever and ever.

i think there is a scheme BT do as well to stop sales calls (every little helps )

you could also try staying away from the following companies:
Halifax, AA, RAC, Morgan Stanley, Llyods, First Assist

they all phoned from the place i worked at in Plymouth.

 

We had 4 calls one evening, one asked for our TPS confirmnation number!

said 'have it ready for next time...' cheeky fucker

just checked, mine is on there, did the mail pref service too (no more junk mail!!!)

 

You dont get a reference number do you?

 

ive got a whistle by the phone... blow that down their lug holes a few times and they stop calling

 

BT privacy seems to stop everything apart from people from Florida trying to flog a holiday, free caller display as well

Mark

 

caller display
dont bother aswering anything "witheld" or "unavailable"
... unless you want a bit of entertainment of course.. then you will be ready for them

 

No, that's Tesco mate, not BT: