First time ever - an honest computer scammer!

[Pat "5mph"]

A double glazing firm I told to fek off from Glasgow once told me they were going to " send the boys around " , I quickly quipped " To put my windows in ?

A Glasgow company phoned once with the usual "you have been selected for a thousand pounds off a new bathroom" so I told them to come round for an estimate, because I really was in the market for a new bathroom.
The salesman then asked " what's your marital status?"
I answered " what's this got to do with my new bathroom??"
So he says " we want to know who we are dealing with"
The cheek, of course I told him to effo, wonder what they were trying to achieve.
Nowadays, the land line is unplugged, the mobile only gets answered if it's in my contacts.

 

[User6179]

A Glasgow company phoned once with the usual "you have been selected for a thousand pounds off a new bathroom" so I told them to come round for an estimate, because I really was in the market for a new bathroom.
The salesman then asked " what's your marital status?"
I answered " what's this got to do with my new bathroom??"
So he says " we want to know who we are dealing with"
The cheek, of course I told him to effo, wonder what they were trying to achieve.
Nowadays, the land line is unplugged, the mobile only gets answered if it's in my contacts.

I had asked for a quote from Weatherseal charlatan windows which I got for a property I didn't live in and was deciding whether to go with it when I got a call from their "trade division " ,that they could do it cheaper , girl sales woman arrived wanting pre dated cheques to get a discount , then sinister weagie with threats

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I had asked for a quote from Weatherseal charlatan windows which I got for a property I didn't live in and was deciding whether to go with it when I got a call from their "trade division " ,that they could do it cheaper , girl sales woman arrived wanting pre dated cheques to get a discount , then sinister weagie with threats

That company has a reputation (allegedly)
If you still need windows, go with the Mount Florida company, they are good.

 

[User6179]

That company has a reputation (allegedly)
If you still need windows, go with the Mount Florida company, they are good.

Got a local guy , cheaper and a good job , fitters on a wage , not a price , had whole house plastered and painted first plus floor coverings and they never damaged nothing bar my kettle

edit - donkeys fitted my blinds and the windows could not be opened for the rails

 

[Ian A]

and you have not bought some ? , I tried to buy gas central heating at my mothers house and they don't have gas , your missing a trick !

You're onto a winner there . If I'm not busy and they stop by again...

 

[User6179]

You're onto a winner there . If I'm not busy and they stop by again...

Good man

 

[DaveReading]

Having said that, I did get one ring back a couple of minutes later and ask "What right did I have to judge him".

I get a lot of junk calls at work, from telemarketers rather than scammers, and I learned when I worked for a while doing IT in a call-centre that the kindest thing you can do if you're not interested is to hang up straight away, which frees them to move on to their next prospect.

That said, I hung up on a young lady a few weeks ago, presumably new in the job, only to have her call back immediately and ask me, in an aggrieved voice "Did you just hang up on me?". I reassured her that I had indeed done so, before hanging up again.

 

[User6179]

I get a lot of junk calls at work, from telemarketers rather than scammers, and I learned when I worked for a while doing IT in a call-centre that the kindest thing you can do if you're not interested is to hang up straight away, which frees them to move on to their next prospect.

That said, I hung up on a young lady a few weeks ago, presumably new in the job, only to have her call back immediately and ask me, in an aggrieved voice "Did you just hang up on me?". I reassured her that I had indeed done so, before hanging up again.

Your one of the twunts we are talking about

 

[Cubist]

My favourite moment with a telesales person was when one of the big companies offered to fit windows on the basis of I pay for the downstairs and they did the upstairs for free. I strung them along for about twenty minutes going through the fine details like the size of my dining room window, the the lounge which had three units of glass, including two openers and the kitchen which had two opening casements. He worked out a rough price and then we moved onto the upstairs. It was two weavers cottages knocked into one, and had banks of stone mullions on the south facing side, with eight units per cottage, and four further windows on the other side. He backed out of the deal very quickly!

 

[User6179]

My favourite moment with a telesales person was when one of the big companies offered to fit windows on the basis of I pay for the downstairs and they did the upstairs for free. I strung them along for about twenty minutes going through the fine details like the size of my dining room window, the the lounge which had three units of glass, including two openers and the kitchen which had two opening casements. He worked out a rough price and then we moved onto the upstairs. It was two weavers cottages knocked into one, and had banks of stone mullions on the south facing side, with eight units per cottage, and four further windows on the other side. He backed out of the deal very quickly!

Your opening sentence had Bungalow written all over it

 

[Black Country Ste]

I got a lot of cold calls on the landline at my last property. One day Sky rang trying to sell me a phone line. I said no thank you, goodbye and hung up. Literally one SECOND after doing so the phone rang again. Sky, again, though a different op, trying to sell me a phone line. I told him in clean but no uncertain terms how I felt about that. Then slammed down the phone (I know they don't hear that - it's therapeutic).

Since moving I leave the phone unplugged and nobody has the number. Even I don't know it.

I really want to do THIS.

 

[paul04]

I don't give cold callers the time of day, the house phone blocks them all, if they come to the front door, I open the door and ask "what do you want" and as they gather breath to speak, I just say, I'm not interested and shut the door.

One chap did knock on the door again, as I opened the door, he said, "you don't know what I want" I replied, well I don't want anything and shut the door again.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I don't usually answer the phone, but got a chap from "Microsoft" say we had be having virus issues, I have proabably been building running home networks longer than hes been alive, any way just told him sorry but we run Mac's on the home network, he said are you sure, I said yep, he hung up.