Annoying Phone Calls or Callers To Your Home

Motley Crue · 01-07-2010 01:56PM #1

I used to work in Market Research in Dublin many moons ago. I never sold anything, but it was all Government work, and talking about new schemes or implementing new programmes.

Anyway, people used to find what I did incredibly annoying and I was threatened so many times it wasn't funny and if the money wasn't as good as it was and the hours so flexible and the breaks so....actually, the job was great, except for the work we had to do.

I remember this one old man, who told me if I ever called him again he'd hunt me down and kill me, because he had Caller ID that could trace Withheld numbers. Then there was another women who gave me a lecture about calling her on a Sunday and how I should be ashamed and my mother should disown me for the work I did. I often wonder how people like that would deal with a Debt Collector.

I was wondering, what's the most annoying phone call people have ever gotten here? Albeit from a prankster, or Market Researcher, maybe someone from Jesus's group called to your door to discuss Christ with you?

KeithM89_old · 01-07-2010 01:59PM

Got some tool looking for something called a "TV license", whatever that is
Told him to shove it

Max Power1 · 01-07-2010 02:01PM

none
I dont answer the door, any people who I want to visit will text me before coming round so I know to expect them, and i dont answer private number calls

HalloweenJack · 01-07-2010 02:01PM

When I lived in Spain, I frequently got calls from other mobile networks trying to get me to switch. It drove me mad. I got a few calls from the same company a few times.

They asked me what network I was with and then they'd tell me they were with a different one and wanted to ask a few questions. Whenever I told them I wasn't interesting in changing network, they'd say "Oh, it's just market research" but they'd keep trying to get me to change. I would just hang up.

easyeason3 · 01-07-2010 02:02PM

People selling scratch cards for the homeless.
They know that I know they are trying to scam me, but yet they have the brazen neck to get me to buy some.

Or those stupid smiley Concern fcukers. Always smiling, always talking in a sing-song voice about poverty & crap. They're like human fcuking Bosco's.

Motley Crue · 01-07-2010 02:09PM

Keithm89 wrote: »

Got some tool looking for something called a "TV license", whatever that is

Jesus, you'll have to pay that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt-hcIPgYt8

Classic Ya Langer Ad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmew4hdYrxw

This one I remember well, the old man who nearly cries

Azureus · 01-07-2010 02:22PM

Anything from Eircom. How come they can remember you when you say that youre interested in a product, but cant remember that you told them to f*** off a million times !!!! (I did try the polite version of that a few times first, doesnt work either!) They hounded me so much I vowed never to use them again. Also it is so easy to sign up to their services but almost impossible to cancel them!! (even when youre not in any fixed term contracts)
*rant over*

Most annoying apart from them was my old landline number. Was one digit away from Books Unlimited, so we had their customers calling us CONSTANTLY! My friend has the same problem except with a taxi rank which is far worse, had to get her number changed cuz it was always waking her up with drunken idiots trying to get home from a night on the pish, while she jumped outta bed thinking it was some kinda emergency for ppl to be calling at that hour

deelite · 01-07-2010 02:27PM

Most annoying one I used to get was in the middle of the night from India - when I picked up the phone nobody would answer - it went on for a full week - when I turned off the phone (which I didn't want to do) the following morning there would be 10 missed calls - I rang Eircom and they stopped that number from ringing the house.....btw I still don't know what they were selling.

Barna77 · 01-07-2010 02:27PM

This tosser used to call me at 2 or 3am asking for his girlfriend.

:cool:

Doyler92 · 01-07-2010 02:30PM

deelite wrote: »

Most annoying one I used to get was in the middle of the night from India - when I picked up the phone nobody would answer - it went on for a full week - when I turned off the phone (which I didn't want to do) the following morning there would be 10 missed calls - I rang Eircom and they stopped that number from ringing the house.....btw I still don't know what they were selling.

Yeah sorry about that. We were just ringing you to inform you that you had won a national lottery of India and we just needed a few details in order to process the money over to you.

Care to give me the details now via PM?

AnonoBoy · 01-07-2010 02:31PM

Barna77 wrote: »

This tosser used to call me at 2 or 3am asking for his girlfriend.

:cool:

Asking you what for his girlfriend?

tallaghtoutlaws · 01-07-2010 02:32PM

Doyler92 wrote: »

Yeah sorry about that. We were just ringing you to inform you that you had won a national lottery of India and we just needed a few details in order to process the money over to you.

Care to give me the details now via PM?

Hey I have a bone to pick with you... Where is my money? The wife keeps asking me about the monies. I sent you my details now show me the money

shebango · 01-07-2010 02:32PM

There used to be a guy who'd call to our door selling scratch cards for recovering alcoholics. We didn't ever buy them as he was always stinking of drink and literally swaying from side to side.

01-07-2010 02:34PM

Only way to handle a telemarketer-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hllDWSbuDsQ

Noreen1 · 01-07-2010 04:01PM

I hate telephone scammers with a vengeance.
I got a call last week, went something like this:

Hello. Can I speak to X?

Speaking.

I'm calling from company X. We are just calling to warn people abut a virus called "whatever". Now, it is a very dangerous virus, and every computer running Windows is infected, you need to....

Ah, no problem! I don't use Windows, I use linux - thanks anyway! (I lied!:D)

Oh, er.....

I managed not to laugh until I hung up! I wish I had a picture of the expression on his face - he needs to brush up on his scamming technique:D

Noreen

Bob the Seducer · 01-07-2010 04:08PM

Barna77 wrote: »

This tosser used to call me at 2 or 3am asking for his girlfriend.

:cool:

Well you should give her back then...

Creamsoda · 01-07-2010 08:11PM

UPC. What a bunch of annoying idiots. I must have got more than 100 calls from them in the last 2 r 3 years asking me would I like to get a phone line for just €5 a month. I got 8 calls from them in 1 weekend one time. It used drive me mad. Thankfully they have stopped in the last few months.

fergal.b · 04-01-2011 02:44PM

I am getting a lot of calls from people trying to fix my computer, and I haven't even broken it yet.:D

sensibleken · 04-01-2011 03:32PM

you guys know you can opt out of the whole cold calling thing so they cant ring you?

i_love_toast · 04-01-2011 04:22PM

Drunks dialing the wrong number looking for the "Fish Bar". Happens nearly every week. After you tell them wrong number some proceed to try to order over the phone.

Half the time we just wait til they finish saying their order and tell them "that'll be delivered in half an hour"....and hang up.

neilthefunkeone · 04-01-2011 04:28PM

Noreen1 wrote: »

Hello. Can I speak to X?
Speaking.
I'm calling from company X. We are just calling to warn people abut a virus called "whatever". Now, it is a very dangerous virus, and every computer running Windows is infected, you need to....
Ah, no problem! I don't use Windows, I use linux - thanks anyway! (I lied!:D)
Oh, er.....

I managed not to laugh until I hung up! I wish I had a picture of the expression on his face - he needs to brush up on his scamming technique:D

Got a very similar one a few weeks ago.. I just said ill keep an eye out for it!!!

Got someone pretending to be BOI customer service a little while back too.. Very convincing, sounded like a call centre and all.. But then she asked for my account number.. Good bye!!

LizT · 04-01-2011 04:44PM

Our phone number is similar to a large car sales/car part shop in our town, except two of the the numbers are reversed. So we always get phone calls to our house looking for "car parts".

then sometimes when you tell the person they have the wrong number, they hang up and ring back five seconds later.

Feeona · 04-01-2011 04:45PM

If I get phone calls or salespeople at the door looking to sell something, I tell them that I don't want whatever they have unless it's for free. They usually segue into 'Ah yes, but if you pay x, you get y free'. I then point out that if I have to give them money, it's not free.

If I was approached by salespeople in a shopping centre, I'd be far more likely to hand over money because I'm in a SHOPPING centre and expect to spend money.

My home is not a shopping centre :mad:

Annoying Phone Calls or Callers To Your Home

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