Telesales won't stop - what to do?

Angilion

Angilion

Angilion

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Every bloody day I get calls from the same scumbag company. Due to the shifts I work, they wake me up. Every damn day. I don't get to the phone before my answering service kicks in and they don't leave a message. They do, however, have a number shown by 1471, so I know it's the same company. Every single day.

I've tried ringing the number (it's an 02036 number, which is London) and all I get is a recorded message saying that they will keep ringing me.

It's not a live telesales call, so TPS doesn't apply.

From looking online, they use the usual fake survey scam to further evade TPS regulations.

What options do I have other than paying to have the number blocked? BT won't do it for free - call blocking is a paid subscription service - so I'd either have to pay every month or pay a larger lump sum for a device to do it and neither solution is perfect anyway.

Since this is GD, I expect to be advised to engage in elaborate revenge before nuking them from orbit :) I'm hoping for some more practical advice as well. I'd like to find every employee who has called me and every person who makes policy at the company and urinate in their faces as an expression of my contempt for them (and I'd consider that a very reasonable response to their harrassment), but what I really want is for them to stop it.

EDIT: The number is 02036 170540 and the recorded message states that the company name is Lee Performance (or Leigh Performance, Lea Performance, however they're spelling it).
 
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Jambo said:
Turn your ringtone off.
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I don't have a ringtone to turn off. It's a landline and a bog standard phone with answering machine.

I use my phone as a backup alarm in case of power cuts. Disabling sound would make that impossible.

I want family to be able to phone me in case of emergency.

I appreciate the orbital nuking-free suggestion, but it's less practical to me than spending the money on a number-blocking device.
 
MissChief said:
You could ask your provider to change your number?
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That might be a temporary solution, but many companies are just calling blocks of numbers rather than targetted numbers. People who keep an ex-directory landline just for broadband and never give the number out at all still get sales calls.

Might be worth it to stop this one particularly annoying company at the moment, though. I'll have to decide whether it's worth the bother of changing my number.
 
Get a decent alarm.
Give your family your mobile number to ring for emergencies
and unplug the bloody landline while you're asleep!.
 
I'm on the TPS and I'm getting sick of so many calls from international numbers, cold calls, surveys and the like. Problem is I resent changing my number as I've had it for such a long time and it'd be a pain to inform family I don't see so often. What are these alternatives like? Going to do a bit of digging but any summaries welcome.
 
Get a Call Blocker, acts like a switchboard where callers have to press a number on the keypad to be put through to your phone with a recorded message saying sales and charity calls are not accepted at this number.

Not had one sales call since....
 
Aedus said:
Buy TrueCall.

Expensive, but it works.
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This was the best £100 I've spent in a long time, we used to get loads of spam phone calls but since installing it, not a single one has got through.

Their customer service is great as well, my unit was well out of warranty but destroyed when we had a near lightning strike. I wasn't sure if it was the unit or the PSU so I called them, they first sent me a PSU and then when it wasn't that, they supplied a brand new replacement Truecall unit. They didn't charge me for either of those items despite the fact that it was a long time out of warranty and technically wouldn't have been covered by the warranty anyway.
 
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