Pest callers
Its bad enough these days with these cold callers and fund raisers but last night at approx 7.30pm just as we were settleing down to watch the telly there,s a knock on the front door and standing there in the dark is a woman from the RSPCA. "Good evening sir sorry to bother you but have you got time for a chat" i said "do you realise what time it is and no its not convenient to have a chat" she says "Oh well if its any better i can come back in an hour " 
i dont know about others but if your going to knock on my door at that time you had better have a dam good reason.
Are these people for real.
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If they have a collection pot for a good cause and have ID I will usually give a donation. Otherwise they get told to go away, whatever time of the day or night. Almost without exception they are trying to get you to sign up for regular contributions by
direct debit. Even if I was interested, I would never do this at the front door with someone I have never met.0 -
A few months ago I was on my front drive, sat on a stool, polishing my motorcycle.
A couple of people walked down the street, armed with briefcases, and two stopped alongside me.
One said, "You look like you're enjoying yourself"
I replied, " And you look like Jehovah's Witnesses, and I don't believe in sky fairies".
Shocked "Oh", then left me alone.
Like V all cold callers drive me nuts.
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I used to get bothered by the "witnesses" until i had an altercation with a couple of them.They knocked on my door and straight away i asked what they were doing on my property uninvited and this smart arse said well where,s your "no Trespassing sign" i said "dont get clever with me mate now clear off and dont come back".Now i dont know if they make a note of this response but i,ve never been bothered by them since.Funily enough i did see one of these no cold callers signs a few days ago its the first i,ve seen of them.
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I have no problems with cold callers. Those door to door type are kept at bay by a locked front gate and beware of the dog sign.
I never get cold callers on the house phone either. Not quite true as I have recieved about 4 such calls at most in the last 12 years.
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I used to get nuisance phone calls almost on a daily basis, but they have got less of late, but now as well as the spam e-mails from the UK, I am being bombarded with e-mails from the U.S.
I can't unsubscribe them fast enough.
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I used to get nuisance phone calls almost on a daily basis, but they have got less of late, but now as well as the spam e-mails from the UK, I am being bombarded with e-mails from the U.S.
I can't unsubscribe them fast enough.
Trouble is when they are from the US and other non EU countries there are no controls. So when you unsubscribe they know they have got a live email address and sell that info on.
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I live in a cold calling avoidance area that the Council has set up. It works. Not had anyone call for the last couple of years
Write your comments here...so do I but we still get the odd cold callers . I tell them forcefully that it's a no cold calling area and see them on their way. All done politely of course.
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Its bad enough these days with these cold callers and fund raisers but last night at approx 7.30pm just as we were settleing down to watch the telly there,s a knock on the front door and standing there in the dark is a woman from the RSPCA. "Good evening
sir sorry to bother you but have you got time for a chat" i said "do you realise what time it is and no its not convenient to have a chat" she says "Oh well if its any better i can come back in an hour " i dont know about others but if your going to knock on my door at that time you had better have a dam good reason.Are these people for real.
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Write your comments here...If you put a sign up and these people ignore it, they are breaking the LAW.
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I live on the site of an historic battle that was part of the fight to obtain the freedoms of worship currently enjoyed by all persons in this country. I know quite a lot about the subject and can talk the hind legs off a donkey about it. The few witnesses
that do try the door bell despite the sign usually make an excuse and leave before I'm a quarter way through the story.0 -
I used to get nuisance phone calls almost on a daily basis, but they have got less of late, but now as well as the spam e-mails from the UK, I am being bombarded with e-mails from the U.S.
I can't unsubscribe them fast enough.
Unfortunately 'unsubscribing' is likely to lead to even more email 'junk'. It tells them that your email address is still live and that someone at the end of it is responding. Don't do anything to these unwanted emails apart from send them straight into
Junk and then delete them asap. Then delete everything in your Deleted User box.0 -
We stuck some "No callers of leaflets" on the front door and that has had a very good effect, but it seems not to work at election times!!
We one had a family of jehover witness's who took it in turns to come knocking, one day.The farther to come for his turn sand I answered the door with a open shot gun in my hand as I had been cleaning it at the time. He or his family never called again.
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Its bad enough these days with these cold callers and fund raisers but last night at approx 7.30pm just as we were settleing down to watch the telly there,s a knock on the front door and standing there in the dark is a woman from the RSPCA. "Good evening
sir sorry to bother you but have you got time for a chat" i said "do you realise what time it is and no its not convenient to have a chat" she says "Oh well if its any better i can come back in an hour " i dont know about others but if your going to knock on my door at that time you had better have a dam good reason.Are these people for real.
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Write your comments here...Volvoman, I have the perfect answer in my mind to these time wasters that ask if I have time for " a few questions" etc I say yes I have but must establish that my charge is £25 PER HALF HOUR , WOULD YOU LIKE TO CONTINUE.?. they
soon hang up or happily walk away.. SG20 -
We are very lucky, we are so remote no one bothers with us. I DID get a phone call the other evening tho telling me that that they had been notified that I had had an accident (familiar ?). I asked the caller on which particular date? She very very quickly
ended the call even though I asked her not too; I wanted to discuss further0
