posted by Kate on Jun 3
My telephone rang a total of 24 times today and only one of those calls was worth having!
I have been registered with the Telephone Preference Service for a very long time and my home telephone number is also ex-directory.
So can someone please tell me why I have had so many calls offering me goods and services from companies I have never heard of?
A new mortgage? Why? I don’t even have an old one. New windows and doors - I don’t need them. A special offer on orthopaedic pillows, new blinds, a loan… the list is endless and some of them hung up when I answered.
Why me? Do they know I’m off work? Is it a plot hatched by the people who stressed me out in the first place, trying to make it worse?
I have been a database administrator for more years than I care to mention and at work I check my data every month for customers registered with the Telephone Preference Service to make quite sure that nobody calls them on an ad hoc basis - only when necessary.
It is ridiculous and a waste of money to make these calls in the vain hope that someone will buy a product. Surely the art of marketing is to reach somebody who is interested in buying the company product.
AND the biggest irritation and the reason for this post is - when I explained to one caller that I was registered with the TPS - she said “TPS? What does that mean?
I rest my case and before anyone tells me that its not just happening because I’m off work - it probably happens every day. I need to say that I realise that and I am now going to train the dog to answer the phone and growl down it.
That should stop them!!!
Tags: calls | data | database administrator | ex-directory | marketing | telephone | Telephone Preference Service | TPS
June 4th, 2008 at 6:59 am
The best one I had (not TPS but almost as good) was the company that kept sending us junk mail to the previous owners for industrial catering catalogues… Not what I needed, so I asked them to remove us - they duly told me they had.
A month later we got another, when I asked them to remove us this time I was informed it was impossible!!!!
I offered to send each one back without a stamp and with a brick tied to it, we didn’t receive another…. Ever!!!
June 4th, 2008 at 8:39 am
mmmmm the Mail Preference Service (MPS) is just as misused in my opinion. I am still getting mail for my Mum who died a year ago - maybe I should try the housebrick approach?
June 4th, 2008 at 9:33 am
I would…. Certainly generated a result in our house!!
June 4th, 2008 at 9:34 am
The other thing to do with companies that ring you is offter to sell them your eBay items!!