Thomson Directories are Idiots

[Reikimaster]

Has anyone else had multiple calls from Thomson trying to confirm your companies Directory entry.

Within the last 6-8 weeks we have had in the region of 8-10 phone calls asking us to confirm our detail. each time they call we complain, asks to speak to a manger, who is never available, and then confirm the details on the assurance that we will not get another call.

I have done this personally at least 4 times the last being 12th July, today we recieved another call !!!!!

How do i stop these idiots?

[Woz]

Put the phone down.

[Letz]

Had this with my bank once, called every week asking if I'd like to meet for a financial review blah blah. Said no everytime and after a few repeated calls started saying they called last week, said no, mean no, stop calling. Had about another 3 where I said the same thing and eventually got someone with enough wherewithall to take me off the 'call every week' list

Good luck

[Reikimaster]

Originally Posted by Woz

Put the phone down.

then they dont even wait a week, usually call back the next day,

i'll let you know (can you guess what i did when they called today?)

[Letz]

Originally Posted by Reikimaster

then they dont even wait a week, usually call back the next day,

i'll let you know (can you guess what i did when they called today?)

Why don't you tell them they've already taken x hours of your time so now, by way of return, you'd like to introduce them to the Gospel

[Tricky]

Originally Posted by Sixsquid

Why don't you tell them they've already taken x hours of your time so now, by way of return, you'd like to introduce them to the Gospel

Even better than that, tell them they've already taken x hours of your time which you normally charge out at y rate so now you'll be sending them an invoice for x times y

[Phil Laughton]

Contact the Telephone Preference Service and register with them. If you get any cold calls after that advise the caller you are registered and they panic knowing they could be prosecuted.
Don't get any cold calls now.

Phil

[John Touhig]

About 6 months ago myself a lot of my colleagues started getting calls on our mobiles, the first couple of calls went like this...

THEM - "Hello, I would like to tell you about the FREE upgrade to your mobile that we can offer you."


ME - "That's really interesting because I work for Orange and my mobile is obviously a work mobile. So can you tell me which part of Orange you work for?"

THEM - "We're not actually Orange"

ME - "Goodbye".


This went on for a couple of months until the conversations started to go like this...

THEM - "Hello, I would li.."

ME - "Look stop wasting my time, which bit of 'I WORK FOR ORANGE' don't you understand?"

There might have been one or two F words in there depending on whether the person that called was male or female.

Just for the record I DO NOT work for Orange Mobile or Orange Internet. I work for the business services division and we're nice honest people.


John

[Gav]

I love the "Can I speak to the owner of the business" calls.. My reply is usually "No" I then put the phone down. Works for any call where they ask "Can I?"

[laterontoday]

There is only one answer to this, which is to tell them the office manager or such job title deals with adverts or the subject matter. His name is Michael Hunt and they need to call back when hes in. However he prefers to be called Mike.

Childish maybe, but chortle chortle the penny drops eventually after they have called back a few times and asked for Mike Hunt. or his brother Issac.

Alternatively if your humour level is at a higher plane at least when they call asking for the said gentleman you can put the phone down knowing its someone cold calling or just deny theres anyone there by that name.