Another option is to go Ex-Directory - means we cannot find your number....(this will also work with telesales)
you could always ask them to put you on their do not call list - if that doesn't work contact http://www.mrs.org.uk/ to complain
Kevin
Kevin Berwick
Database Manager
BMG Research
>>> Tim Trent <[log in to unmask]> 22 August 2008 12:35 >>>
Market research is specifically excluded form TPS. May I suggest the
following solution:
http://timtrent.blogspot.com/2007/11/b2c-telesales-how-to-annoy-agent-hugely.html
tinied at http://tinyurl.com/5rz5ov
It works! Hold your nerve and do it! Telesales I report, unless
foreign. market Research I gibber at.
Edwina Withe wrote:
> I share your frustration. I am increasingly getting calls at home from
> a well known market research company. It appears that because they are
> not actually trying to sell to me there is nothing I can do despite
> being registered with TPS! Anybody got any ideas on stopping these
> calls?
>
> E
>
>
>>>> Nigel Roberts <[log in to unmask]> 22/08/2008 10:01 >>>
>>>>
> This is why the law-makers provided a civil remedy in the hands of the
>
> consumer.
>
> i.e. they recognised that a regulator would be swamped, and allowed you
>
> to claim nominal damaes (£50 per Douglas v Hello) directly.
>
> Go for them!
>
>
>
> Tim Trent wrote:
>
>> I have just received another cold call form another company that
>>
> ignores
>
>> TPS registrations - Saint John Security Installations Ltd of
>>
> Coventry.
>
>> Google provided this link: http://tinyurl.com/5ww2no I've always
>>
> been
>
>> suspicious of folks to telesell burglar alarms
>>
>> I filled out the PECR complaint document and sent it to the UKIC.
>>
> When
>
>> I got to the end I read:
>>
>> /"I have read 'The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations
>>
> -
>
>> When and how to complain' leaflet and understand that you have no
>>
> powers
>
>> to punish an organisation for any likely breach of the regulations
>>
> and
>
>> that you cannot award compensation."/
>>
>> The compensation part, yes, ok. But they can't punish anyone!
>>
>> Oh glory. Oh joy, oh rapture, oh why the dickens do any of us even
>> bother to get out of bed each day?
>>
>> So what CAN the UKIC do? Can he slap them in the face with a wet
>>
> fish?
>
>> What the heck do we pay for here? Good grief! What imbecile allowed
>>
> a
>
>> law that has no remedy to reach the statute books? What in
>>
> blistering
>
>> blue blazes is going on?
>>
>> Please pass me a stepladder, I am on my high horse again, and I
>>
> probably
>
>> need to dismount!
>>
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