I’m not quite sure what the TPS covers. At work one of the men I support repeatedly has calls, which are just a recorded message telling him about how to solve debt/financial issues. After going through the various ways to cancel repeated calls (“press 9″, 1471 and select option, sign him up to TPS) last week, we’ll see if he gets any more calls.
When I was setting up TPS for him, I went through all the landline nos for other people I support, and myself, and realised that we’re already on telephone preference. Now silly me, I’ve been kind enough to some people online by giving out my landline, so I’m not quite sure whether calls I get now are due to that, or just the randomness of “cold calling”.
I love how the companies that phone to sell/advertise/inform/ask questions… always do it during the day. So all the 9-5ers out there probably don’t know they’ve been called.
I had a call earlier, where they had someone elses name, and address. They persuaded me to talk to them. They asked for my postcode, which I resisted giving, but then I thought “well they don’t know exactly where I live from that, because there’s lots of homes with that postcode”. When he asked for my house number I refused. He went on and asked me the other questions, and at the end tried to get me to tell him my house number, but I refused, told him he could guess. He might not be selling me anything, but the people that he will pass the information onto will want to sell.
…While writing this I’ve had 2 calls from “out of area”, which I’ve ignored. I can’t be bothered to answer and say no to someone else.