Stopping cold callers

[Maz]

Has anyone ever registered with this website (or similar) to stop cold callers?

http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/tps/

Was it effective in reducing/stopping cold callers?

Thanks

 

[vernon]

Yes it does work.

What it doesn't stop though is phone calls from companies with whom you have registered in interest in their wares/services i.e. online submission of personal details for insurance/financial services queries without ticking the opt out box allows the companies to contact you.

Cold call dried up very quickly for my household.

 

[slugonabike]

We found that it seemed to work well initially but we have had quite a few calls recently. I've reported to TPS when I've thought about it but the organisation doesn't really have any 'teeth' with which to enforce the system.

 

[ianrauk]

Yep, registered with the TPS.
Takes a couple of months to kick in but does work.

 

[ACS]

Good for UK based businesses, we get a some from International numbers which we just ignore.

 

[Globalti]

We're with TPS, we probably get only half a dozen calls a year.

 

[fossyant]

Same here, but it's some of the international numbers that still come through - like "Kevin", clearly from India, selling Jo Bloggs double glazing.

 

[Cush]

We still get one or two a week. Normaly around meal times I try to be polite but firm and put the phone down.

 

[TVC]

TPS works well, though I do get the recorded ones from the US still telling me I've won a competition.

On the occasion I do get a call I now have the stock answer "I'm registered with the Telephone Preference Service, so no reputable company would consider calling me. Yours must not be a reputable company".

 

[Maz]

TPS works well, though I do get the recorded ones from the US still telling me I've won a competition.

On the occasion I do get a call I now have the stock answer "I'm registered with the Telephone Preference Service, so no reputable company would consider calling me. Yours must not be a reputable company".

Just regiestered...I will give that line a try if I get called from now on.
Thanks.

 

[ohnovino]

Registered a couple of years ago and it works really well. Cold calls have dropped from almost every day to maybe one a month, and if I tell them I'm on TPS they normally apologise profusely and hang up.

 

[dellzeqq]

Yep, registered with the TPS.
Takes a couple of months to kick in but does work.

yep +1

 

[ColinJ]

TPS generally works well for me. I do still get the odd call, often from abroad. I have Caller Display and ruthlessly ignore unknown or withheld numbers. If somebody pesters me too much, I pick up the phone, wait for them to start their sales-pitch and then blast them with a buzzer that I keep near the phone for that purpose - they give up after I do that to them a few times!

 

[bobg]

Same here, but it's some of the international numbers that still come through - like "Kevin", clearly from India, selling Jo Bloggs double glazing.

Ahh, dear old Kevin, he's a regular here. Not forgetting Sharon!!

 

[numbnuts]

I hope it does work I'm fed up with one caller say "did you know..." NO I f*** don't...