Why do you have to own a mobile phone to join CC?
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The cc have one of our mobile numbers,but as we do not answer any calls that are not in the phone book (cold calls?)it meant on one occasion a wardens call from a site was ignored,and they agreed that it would be better if texts were sent from sites as we would then have picked it up
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We certainly never give out our mobile unless there is some advantage to us, as in the case of the CC. Just checking the call logger we get 2 or 3 possible cold calls a week, which I just ignore. They never bother with voice mail, which I would hope the CC would use if they rang. They certainly did on our house answer phone. I say possible cold calls, because they are only technically that, if you have not in some way requested them. That's the trouble with all these tick boxes on websites, often hidden, which if you miss when buying something online, means they can use your details.
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That's the trouble with all these tick boxes on websites, often hidden, which if you miss when buying something online, means they can use your details.
Plus the boxes are on some sites 'tick to opt out and other sites are 'clear the tick to opt out', nothing is straight forward.
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On my mobile I have this app, "Should I Answer"
This app will block any unwanted calls and is very easy to personalise. You can even set it to block any calls that are not in your contacts.
Works well for me and is free. Find it on Play Store for Android phones. Not sure if there is the same app on iPhone.
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What this post does illustrate is that the CC have a poorly coded form on their website.
I have come across this business of 'mandatory' fields on other websites where I have wished to purchase items, but not give away my life history, and it does not impress me with the professionalism ( or lack of ) of the companies concerned. I tend to take
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What this post does illustrate is that the CC have a poorly coded form on their website.
I have come across this business of 'mandatory' fields on other websites where I have wished to purchase items, but not give away my life history, and it does not impress me with the professionalism ( or lack of ) of the companies concerned. I tend to take
my business elsewhere.That is why I started the post and in fairness to CC they are looking into it (As some fracking company said when an unexplained hole appeared in the ground) and may sort it out when they do a revamp of the system.
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make a number up, the same a insurance companys wanting your number when you do it online, then they sell your number on, from me they get the local paybox number
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From a wardens perspective, if you're out for the day and there's an issue with your outfit, eg alarm constantly ringing, the wind has wrecked your awning, or god forbid there's a fire, there might be a possibility that you may like to know. Without a contact number, you may have a nasty surprise on your return.
JK
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Mountains and molehills come to mind.
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Really? I have a nice photo collection over the years of members outfits that have for various reasons suffered damage, with one in particular being left uninhabitable.
Doesn't bother me a jot if I haven't got a contact number, but I wish I could show you a picture of peoples faces when they return back to site to find their van looks very different to when they went out. trust me it happens a fair bit.
Jk
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By just submitting a random number, you might cause somebody (who may not even own a caravan or MH) to receive unwanted calls! Surely better as has been stated, to phone the CC to sort it out.
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Just FYI, the club does not give out personal details of a member to any third party.
JK
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I never gave a mobile number when I joined, in fact only family and our daughters school have it, anyone else can go forth and multiply, thats why I don't get cold calls when I am driving.
A mobile or carphone as the where called when first out, was for emergency contact while away from home, thats all mine is used for.
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Pre-mobile days we arrived at CC site in Wales (Aberbran) to find it flooded. Warden had been trying to contact us on landline to say not to travel but we had already set off. We were the only ones on site but wardens managed to site us on concrete next to the reception. We collected water by car, my partner sitting on the tailgate of our 4x4 pulling the aquaroll. Went into Brecon to buy wellies. Warden managed to unblock stream that had caused the flooding and gradually all got back to normal. Great fun!
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You might have been close enough to the site to return & move your caravan to safety. Why the reluctance touse a mobile phone? My Dad will be 80 soon & has owned them for 30+;yrs ..... his current phone is a 'smart phone' & uses it on the web too
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I lost my wallet containing cash and cards including my CC membership card somewhere in Norfolk, but didn't realise it until I received a call on my mobile from the Club, who had been contacted by the finder to let me know that it had been found and where to pick it up. If the Club hadn't had my mobile number, this would not have been possible.
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So . . ? If they have the details they can be stolen from them, just as has happened with so many other organisations which one might have expected to have far better security.
I have no qualms about giving out "details" when required to do so - just, they are not MY details but a set I have invented for the purpose, including a valid, but never looked at email address, and a postal address for a gap site.
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What? You couldn't make it up.
It's not about prevention is it? An example, you're out for the day and the weather turns bad, your awnings half wrecked and the poles are about to pierce the caravan. I suppose you'd be happy to return to site to find that damage then? No one really goes that far from site on a day out so you just may be able to return to just maybe limit the size of your insurance claim?
As I've said before, I care not if I have a number or not, I'll attempt to make safe your outfit to prevent harm to others, and then I'll await your return.
JK
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Indeed I have done the same for fellow caravanners (with help from the warden in high winds).
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If so nobody must wish to call my number to sell things then as I do not get unsolicited calls to my mobile.
Thinking about it maybe no body does want to sell me anything as I average less than 1 unsolicited call a year on my land line over the last 10 years.
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Hi
If you care to read a bit further up thread, I clearly stated that the club do not sell, give or divulge any members personal details with any third party. That will never change.
JK
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Technical standards for telecommunications are researched and defined globally as an aid to compatibility. These standards are by necessity, researched and defined years before the hardware is manufactured for public use. Late in the last millennium, the vision was of "fixed - mobile convergence" i.e. A unique personal phone number which would allow you to be contacted, if you wished, anywhere in the world, as well as at home. With ever widening mobile network coverage, the exclusive use of mobile phones is becoming a growing reality. I'm retired and we've retired our landline phone to the loft, terrestrial connection being exclusively for super fast fibre. Both of my children and very many of their friends have also chosen to adopt mobile communications exclusively.
There can be little long term future for fixed line telephony outside of business environments. Much of our modern technology has found its introduction criticised by people who were unwilling to change, yet it is universally adopted in time - as mobile phones are fast becoming.
Forget going to work by horse, stop rubbing washing on a washboard, use remote control to change channels on your TV, and switch on the central heating. Oh, and have a good think about the many benefits of that unique global phone number for contacting you wherever you are. If you don't want to be called, then switch it off, or better still set up its profile for only accepting calls from selected numbers. Mobile phones are today's reality and the future too.
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Jenny
Whilst I don't disagree with much of what you are saying which as you say is fast becoming a reality. I think a lot of people will still stay with a landline until they can be certain that they have a reliable phone signal. Although I live in a built up area the signal strength is still not good enough for me to hand in my land line, especially inside the house. Perhaps the main point you were making is that the separation between a landline phone and a mobile phone has faded to such an extent that people should think of them as the same thing not two different systems which is inferred in the OP's post?
David
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