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Old May 18, 2005 | 09:59 AM
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Can remember ageeeees ago someone post up a site where you could register your number to stop these fookin pain in the arses phone your home phone number trying to sell you shit! Pain in the fooking arse
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Old May 18, 2005 | 10:40 AM
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http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/
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Old May 18, 2005 | 10:41 AM
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the joys of being Ex directory
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Old May 18, 2005 | 11:00 AM
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Ditto!
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Old May 18, 2005 | 11:11 AM
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Might try that...

Although it can be fun telling the annoying little pricks to go fuck 'emselves!
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Old May 21, 2005 | 06:59 AM
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the joys of wire transfering money to hong kong with lloyds tsb when the phone
operators from a different country ...



then them fooking up the hk bank address then trying to charge YOU for it .. there fook up



MR BANK manager RESULT
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Old May 21, 2005 | 07:08 AM
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TPS is good and it works. If you mention tps to cold callers they soon scurry off, but its better to tell them that your putting them on hold for two ticks and see how long the suckers stay on for
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Old May 21, 2005 | 08:28 AM
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I've just started getting these on my mobile aswell ...any idea how I can stop this?
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Old May 21, 2005 | 09:17 AM
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I sat here one day and got the start of the patter on my home phone, 5 minutes later it was the work line, and 2 minutes after that it was on the fax line.

TPS works with most, but the latest technology means the computer does the dialling, usually from abroad so TPS can't touch them!, and that's why you get that silent pause when you answer, while the "salesman" comes on the line.

Still, at least I learned something that day!
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