This contribution is somewhat late but worth adding to the thread.
A few months ago I became embroiled in discussion with a call centre who
when I stated I had previously asked them to remove the number from their
lists stated that would have been one of the other call centres and that
their process was to bar calls by call centre and not necessarily by the
company whom had contracted them to make the particular call and whom they
identified themselves as. The initial outcome of the discussion was that
they advised me to call the customer services for the company and ask them
to add me to the do not all list; after some further discussion the call
centre agreed they were acting as a data processor on behalf of the data
controller and they would arrange for my details to be placed on the do not
call list centrally.
Innovative methods of maximising the potential customer base (number of
telephone numbers) will probably continue to appear, rather leaving it to
the customers to defend themselves by the various means available.
One person my wife knows always states the house is rented when asked by any
caller on the phone if they can speak to the owner of the property -
apparently that works like a treat for double glazing and similarly types of
sales calls.
Ian W
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> I live in a block of flats where many of the flats are rented and
> there is
> much post which arrives for previous residents - as I have lived there a
> long time I know that some of the letters relate to a long while ago.
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> As I have explained elsewhere there is a communcal letterbox and most of
> these letters remain untouched by the current residents - neither posting
> them on to the addressee (naturally they don't know the address), the
> accommodation agency/landlord or return it marked as "Gone away".
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> Of course, the result of not doing the latter is that the letters keep on
> coming, and the sender is none the wiser.
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> For a long while one particular former resident received many
> letters which
> were obviously for parking etc infringements eg the Congestion Charge.
>
> Nick Landau
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> >>When I moved into a new house I wasn't given a choice of numbers. We
> >>obviously got the number the previous owners had
> >
> > I lived in a rented house for a while last year, and it was amazing how
> > many calls I got for a particular one of the previous occupants. Almost
> > all trying to sell cheap mobiles or other phone service. Of
> course, it was
> > apparently *my* fault that this person had moved on!
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> > I started making a list of the people for whom we still got post
> > delivered, and that numbered eleven different individuals -
> none with the
> > same surname. The previous two occupants had been there 18 months
> > according to the landlord, so the other nine were *extremely*
> out of date.
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