In the UK you can register your telephone number with the TPS (Telephone Preference Scheme) which works with all UK based callers - but not international one or scam artists. Also, once registered, don't let callers tell you that you have to re-register each year. This is utter rubbish. I used to work for BT and if we called people on the TPS scheme for marketing calls without their permission they could sue for compensation. It's that serious. Ls
Kind Regards Liz Baker thelace...@btinternet.com My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ ________________________________ From: Malvary Cole <malva...@sympatico.ca> To: Linda Walton <linda.wal...@dsl.pipex.com>; Lace Chat <lace-chat@arachne.com> Sent: Saturday, 14 January 2012, 14:23 Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Warning Linda wrote: .... - does anyone else have any schemes that have worked? I'd really like to know! One thing I've found works (sometimes) is asking to be put on their 'do not call' list. We are able to register our phone numbers to a government 'do not call' list and I always ask them WHERE they are calling from (not what company) and if they are in Canada, I point out that they are contravening the law and if they want to continue with the call that is fine, but I'll have to report them and get them prosecuted. They usually apologise for calling and hang up (we are quite polite in Canada!). If the call is from the U.S. then that threat doesn't work, so I ask if they have a do not call list to put my number on. If not, then I ask them to hang on because there is someone at the door. Going back to them sometime later they've usually gone or if not, they are not getting very far with their marketing do I tell them they need to get another job because they are failing miserably at the one they've got. Then I hang up. One time I told the guy there was someone at the door and when I came back to the phone a few minutes later he was still going through his patter, so I put the phone down again. After 10 minutes, I spoke and asked if he could repeat what he had said because I'd not heard a word because I'd been to the door and then had to go to the bathroom. He hung up! Malvary in Ottawa, where we have had 2 days of storms - freezing rain and snow - and the city ploughed the side street and mine and dumped everything on the sidewalk along the front of my house. The sidewalk plough has cut a path through and the end of my drive now has a 3ft high and about 4ft wide pile at the end of my drive, so I'm not going anywhere for a while. It is also -20 with a windchill of -31. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
